About

Design Milk is an online magazine dedicated to modern design. 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, and is one of the Google Engineers’ Staff Picks. 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.

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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.

The Beat Boxed (once a month on Tuesdays)
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.

Deconstruction (once a month on Tuesdays)
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.

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

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! (every Wednesday)
Get Out! is written by Anne Robert and focuses on all things outdoors, including gardens, plants and flowers, and outdoor furnishings.

MilkWeed (once a month on Tuesdays)
MilkWeed is a modern plant, landscape and gardening column written by Britton Neubacher that educates and offers ideas on how to integrate plants into your modern lifestyle.

Minimalicious (every Thursday)
Minimalicious, 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.

Staff

	Jaime Derringer, Founder and Editor Jaime daydreams about modern sofas and gets excited about lamps. She and her husband, along with dogs Lulu and Beans, operate JD² Media and the “Milk” sites. She currently contributes to AOL’s ShelterPop and DIY Life, and ReadyMade’s Control Room.
	Eleanor Cleverly, Contributor Eleanor is a graduate student at the New School University, and a media maker based in New York City. Her academic work centers on the societal impact of emerging media technologies and exploring digital media production for the web age. She’s enthralled by designers and artists who are able to create products and images that have an iconic or timeless quality, especially with technologies and materials that are in constant flux. For more information about Eleanor, visit her website.
	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, Minimalicious.
	Annie May, Contributor Annie is a freelance interior designer living in Venice, CA. She began her career as a set decorator and approached this as a way to tell stories through design. She continues to use this approach in every project to tell the story of each client/brand. She believes wit, humor, and a little rock and roll should also be infused into every project. In her mind, design makes the world come together. She loves collaboration with other artists and designers and is always open to sharing ideas and inspiration. You can also check out her inspirational blog, Yolksy “Fresh Ideas Hatched Daily.” Annie writes our column, The Beat Boxed.
	Britton Neubacher, Contributor Britton is a social justice activist turned certified plant geek. She began her botanical design project, Tend, out of her love for all things mini, modern and green. Whether showcasing the inherent artistry in nature or just bringing life to the spaces we inhabit, Britton’s exploration of living art helps reinvent the way we see plants while empowering us to be their happy caretakers. Britton would like to reside in a tiny garden where people take care of their world and are good to each other. She believes that in stewarding your own little plant world, you will never be far from home. You can find her digging in the San Diego dirt and at tendliving.com.
	Joel Pirela, Contributor Joel 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. 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. Visit Joel at his blog, Blue Ant Studio.
	Anne Robert, Contributor Anne Robert is a marketing specialist and trend watcher with a passion for all things design. Over the past three years she has tracked the amazing new concepts and great designers that are pouring out in the outdoor design category. She publishes her best finds in a series of free e-newsletters, which you can sign up for and get free on her consultancy website, The Outdoor Stylist. Anne specializes in going behind the scenes to understand the dynamics of the outdoor design market to help brands and designers assess these dynamics and understand how to profit from them. She writes our Get Out! column.