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.

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Columns

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 authored by a designer, who 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, which are often based on a theme.

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.

Music & Design (once a month on Tuesdays)
We believe that the design associated with music, such as posters, album art, and t-shirt designs, is a unique niche and warrants a dedicated column. This is that column.

Staff

	Jaime Derringer, Editor Jaime daydreams about modern sofas and gets excited about lamps. She longs for the day when she can have an alpaca named Blanche (and eventually all four Golden Girls). She and her husband, along with dogs Lulu and Beans, operate JD2 Media and the “Milk” sites. She currently writes for ShelterPop and DIY Life. She also draws and paints. She is one half of BAKERY.
	Crystal Chou, 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. Visit Crystal’s website.
	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.
	Jessica Goldfond, Contributor Jessica is a boutique owner/ freelance editor/ DJ who loves traveling, cocktail hats, and spending time wandering around Brooklyn. Jess splits her time between the fashion industry and following her creative passions, including her super-popular web shoppe, The Shiny Squirrel.
	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.
	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.
	Catrina Dulay, Intern Catrina is a California native who fancies breakfast for dinner, singing along to power ballads, photography, stickers that peel off clean, and expanding accordion file folders. Her aspirations include becoming a graphic designer and adopting a fake British accent during an entire vacation in another city. She runs Toothpaste Frosting, a small freelance graphic design business providing fresh and delectable design solutions at an affordable price. Oh, Nice! is a blog she runs dedicated to random awesome things she find and other design-related matters. Catrina Is Cool Beans is used as a directory of her websites to make it easier for people to experience her presence on the web. On a completely separate note, her favorite Disney villain is Scar and her favorite cheese is Cougar Gold from the Washington State University Creamery.