About

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I’m just a girl loves art + design, cheese, and my dogs, Lulu and Beans. I would like to one day have an alpaca named Blanche.

My name is Jaime I am married to Mr. Design Milk. We live in San Diego, CA, where we own and operate Vitamin Design, which includes Design Milk and an online shop called Vitamin D(esign). I write a blog about curly hair called Curltastic. I am also an artist and have my own little Etsy shop here.

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. We never receive money for posting. All of our funding comes from sponsors. If you are interested in supporting our site, please contact us for a copy of our media kit.

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Crystal Chou is our Graphic Design contributor. Crystal is an aspiring graphic designer who is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. As well as working on many self-initiated projects, she is constantly seeking opportunities to work with fellow peers on collaborative projects. Her goal as a designer is to continually inspire and be inspired to create work that amazes, informs, awes, alarms, moves, and changes. Her design philosophy, as Paul Rand would put it, is to defamiliarize the ordinary and to make it extraordinary. Learn more about Crystal from her website: www.crystalchou.com

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Joel Pirela is a graphic/industrial designer currently working as a creative director at Zimmerman Advertising in South Florida. His industrial design background is heavily related to projects providing tactical solutions to military, law enforcement, and rescue teams around the world. That experience puts him in touch with the creation of tools with pretty cool materials, such as carbon fiber, titanium, talonite, g10, and laminates created by bonding two or more materials. He then realized that these hi-tech materials could be used for everyday objects generating a long lasting product that, while it costs more to manufacture, will be more cost effective in the end. He has always had a fascination with architecture, and is captivated by modernism, minimalism, simple lines, unobtrusive views/flow and the way the structure interacts with the light and the landscape.

Joel says, “I really think home interiors should be ‘curated’ and not ‘decorated’. I think the term ‘green construction’ in being over played today. I want to see some sensible solutions to housing people and please, make it modern while you’re at it.”

Visit Joel at his blog, Blue Ant Studio, at www.blueantstudio.com.