About

Design Milk is an online magazine dedicated to modern design run by Jaime Derringer. Our goal is to bring you what’s fresh and new in art, architecture, interior design, furniture and decor, fashion, and technology.

Design Milk has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, The San Francisco Chronicle, is one of the Google Engineers’ Staff Picks and a Twitter influencer in Art and Design. We’re also read by many entertainers, hundreds of retailers, magazine editors, and HGTV hosts and designers.

Design Milk is not a retail shop, nor do we sell anything from this website. We try to direct you to a website with every post, so that you can inquire directly. All of our funding comes from our supportive advertisers, giveaway sponsors, and affiliate links used in posts. If you are interested in supporting our site, please click here.

Modern dog lovers, check out our sister site Dog Milk.

Editorial Calendar

We have a number of regular columns and features here on Design Milk. We do our best to keep these on the schedule listed below. Use this form to suggest a column.

Deconstruction (once a month)
This column is usually from the perspective of by a designer, who visually walks us through the process of building or creating a specific product, whether it be a concept, prototype or the final product.

Design Store(y) (once a month)
We’ll get an intimate look inside a brick-and-mortar design shop, including the products on the shelves and the store-y (ha! get it?) behind them, direct from the store owners and managers.

Designer Dailies (once a month)
This is a voyeuristic column typically from the intimate perspective of a designer, artist, or shop owner. We follow them around for one day, expressed through words and pictures.

Destination Design (once a month)
Here we find some of the best designy, boutique, unusual and exciting places to stay (or eat, see, visit, and play).

Friday Five (every Friday)
In our Friday Five posts we ask a designer, artist, or shop owner to tell us their five favorite things.

Get Out! (almost every Wednesday)
Get Out! focuses on all things outdoors, including grills, outdoor kitchens, furnishings and modern outdoor textiles.

MilkWeed (once a month)
MilkWeed is a modern plant, landscape and gardening column written by Kara Bartelt that offers ideas on how to integrate plants into your modern decor and provides plant and garden inspiration.

Skim Milk (every Thursday)
Skim Milk, written by Leo Lei, is out to seek the best in minimalist design. The column focuses on minimalism relating to architecture, furniture, interior design, and product design.

Where I Work (once a month)
This column explores the offices, desks and tools that help unleash the creativity and productivity of some of today’s top designers.

Staff

	Jaime Derringer, Founder and Executive Editor Jaime daydreams about modern sofas and gets excited about lamps. From her suburban mid-century modern home, she operates JD² Media and the “Milk” sites, collects milk cartons, buys too many weird necklaces and lusts over one day owning a striped Gaetano Pesce La Mamma Chair. Jaime has been noted as an expert on design trends, speaks on design and design blogging & social media, contributes to a multitude of design blogs, and does some consulting on the side.
	Marni Elyse Katz, Features Editor Marni Elyse Katz started her career in the fashion closet of Rolling Stone, gave Heidi Klum her first cover when she was the model editor of New Woman, then transitioned to the online world—back when AOL still had channels. These days, Marni is more obsessed with Eero Saarinen and Jonathan Adler than Coco Chanel and Marc Jacobs. She contributes regularly to Boston Globe Magazine and eBay’s The Inside Source, and also writes her own interior design blog, Style Carrot.
	Katie Treggiden, Editor at Large Katie is obsessed with design and loves nothing more than writing about her favorite subject. Her blog, confessions of a design geek, won mydeco’s Best Interior Design Blog in Great Britain in September 2010; and in September 2011, she published her first book, Interviews, a collection of eighteen conversations with designers. She’s wanted to be a writer since she was five years old, and is now finally following her dream as a full time design writer for a variety of online and offline design titles.
	Kara Bartelt, Contributor Kara is a Midwestern born and bred designer transplanted in the super suburbia of LA. Schooled in design and architecture at MIT & Yale, she is a design strategist in practice at kara b. studio and in academia at USC School of Architecture. Kara enjoys the design process on all scales whether creating objects of furniture or home goods, creating a space or building via her architectural practice, Lettuce Office, or by creating botanical art with air plants, via toHOLD. She also likes making a wish at 11:11 each day and sharing it via her photo blog located at thisiskarab.tumblr.com. Kara writes our column, MilkWeed.
	Leo Lei, Contributor Leo is a recent graduate from RIT, and is preparing to apply for his masters in Industrial Design. He enjoys all categories of design, but is passionate about minimalistic furniture and architecture. Whether he is out snowboarding, trying new foods, or traveling, Leo has always been willing to explore the unknown as a way to uncover inspiration. He is conversant with all of the latest trends regarding design, and is, more or less, obsessed with minimalism. You can find out all about Leo’s minimalist design tendencies over at his blog, lvlup design. Leo writes our column, Skim Milk.
	Alex Levin, Contributor Living in Brooklyn, NY, Alex Levin is a writer who has caught an incurable case of green fever from his Babookshka who literally would not throw away a grain of rice. He now specializes in writing about sustainable design, technology, and architecture. When he’s not blogging, Alex can be found fighting crime in the streets of NYC with his puppy-wuppies Lilly & Ivy, playing Free Rice, or killing brain cells watching reality TV. Alex also writes for Granite Transformations, a forward thinking interior design firm that advances green building practices by finding new ways to recycle and reduce waste such as installing granite countertops that use 65% less material than traditional countertops and don’t require demolition.
	Caroline Williamson, Contributor When 7-year-old Caroline made it her mission to redecorate her childhood room weekly, spent hours building LEGO villages and repeatedly painted and reconstructed Barbie’s dream house, she was either obsessive or a young design enthusiast in the making. After getting her BFA in photography from SCAD (her photos have been seen in Architectural Record, Modern Magazine and World of Interiors), she moved to Los Angeles and worked for Alison Berger Glassworks, which gave her an incredible opportunity to be involved in all aspects of design. She writes about her life, inspirations and creative pursuits on her element75 blog.

Previous Columns

The Beat Boxed
The Beat Boxed, written by Annie May, explores the relationship between music and our personal sense of style, or how we “box” or enclose the beat within our own homes.