Keep your eye on these designers and artists making a name for themselves in the industry
Designer Justin Donnelly doesn’t use cookbooks anymore. The passionate home chef, whose architectural offerings will soon include kitchen accessories, takes a similar approach to developing products for his eponymous brand. ‘Cooking to me is very much like design, it’s very...
Growing up in Jáchal, Argentina, Fernando Aciar remembers helping his mother make cakes for first communions. As young as eight, he approached baking with the detail of an architect. By age fifteen, he was paying his sister to help whisk...
It’s appropriate that Juliette Mutzke-Felippelli and husband Diogo Felippelli– known collectively as design brand Joogii– name Philippe Starck’s early work as an influence. Starck famously got his start in Paris nightclubs and Joogii also started in a nightclub when Juliette...
Yield Design Co. founders Andrew Deming and Rachel Gant are partners in business and in life. Crucial to their enduring relationship– forged while at California College of the Arts– is an emphasis on shared principles of design, not to mention...
Studio E.O founder Erik Olovsson is a gifted storyteller. From turning a daily inspiration exercise into a bright sequence of seating, to reimagining flea market clogs as candleholders with history, his projects have a narrative. Which isn’t to say...
From Portland creative agency Monogoto and designer Marie Uno comes the 202-piece block set, Kuum. Uno – whose background is in engineering – looked to the natural elements of her native Japan for inspiration. The blocks are sold in collaboration with...
Designer John Sorensen-Jolink is obsessed with the notion of home– which makes sense, because for months at a time he didn’t have one. At the age of 17, Sorensen-Jolink came to New York City to train as a dancer. He...
Inside every creative is a place that exists only in memory, a retreat for meditation and inspiration. For Devin Farrand, that place is ‘the garage’ where industrial materials and manual labor can be repurposed for the realm of nonfunctional design...
California native Jory Brigham grew up in Hawaii assisting his father on carpentry jobs. Brigham’s homeschooling was paired with an education in hand tools, and the islands’ vulnerability to hurricanes kept business going. ‘I didn’t love it enough to make it...
In a culinary climate full of extravagances and complex creations, one food firm is hoping to make its mark by taking things back to basics. Located in the quaint countryside of Lower Saxony, Germany – a region renowned for its...
Heading to the Hamptons is de rigueur for many New Yorkers. Every bit a destination in its own right, but helpfully on the way, is the experimental multidisciplinary arts space The Watermill Center. Founded by artist and visionary Robert Wilson...
As Jay Carroll talks, a breeze rustles through our phone connection, the bone-dry air of the Mojave Desert making itself known. Mr. Carroll is one half of lifestyle brand Wonder Valley, and along with his wife Alison is exploring what...
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