Potter Lisa Jones wasn’t always holed up in ceramics studio. The owner and creative director of Pigeon Toe Ceramics actually started her professional life in graphic design and marketing before launching her much-loved company four years ago in Portland, Oregon. Jones focus on local craft and handmade sensibilities has earned kudos, as has her simple, modern-lined designs. The combination makes her wares unique and widely coveted. In today’s Designer Dailies, Jones takes us through a day of throwing pots, plus the thereafter.
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Textile designer Nancy Mims, who works out of her backyard studio in Austin, Texas, is the founder of healthy home fabric and wallpaper company Mod Green Pod. Hers was one of the first to create textiles and wall coverings that merged innovative, colorful designs with organic cotton and chemical-free production. Among them is the Butterfly Jubilee pattern you see above, which you may recognize. For this week’s Designer Dailies, Mims takes us through her color-drenched world via a day’s worth of documentary and absolutely gorgeous photographs, which she’s been dedicated to snapping every day.
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Artist and designer Amy Butler, is known for her down home — but never dowdy — textiles from organic bedding and wallpaper to luggage and bags to fabrics, threads, and patterns for the DIYer. She’s been sewing since she was seven and got her start making small passport bags out of vintage fabric not long after graduation art school, where she met her husband and business partner David. For this week’s Designer Dailies Amy, David, and their four (yes four!) cats, Pete, Birdie, Pip, and Smooch, show us through their day.
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For this week’s Designer Dailies, Australian designer Brodie Neill, who we love most for his ultra-contemporary lighting and seating, brings us through a jam packed day of travel, commerce, cuisine and culture. The day begins in London and ends in Copenhagen, while we go along with his taking in meetings, museums, and two of Denmark’s best cultural contributions — food and design.
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This year’s Designer Dailies posts takes us through a day-in-the-life of designers who create everything from furniture and lighting to wallpaper and rugs, captured in their own photos and words. We’ve gathered all the Designer Dailies posts from 2011 for you — be sure to check the list in case you missed one. Click on their names for behind-the-scenes looks at what our favorite designers got up to on a typical day this year.
Sayeh Pezeshki AKA The Office Stylist
Office decor magic begins with a strawberry smoothie and a very furry cat. How we wish Sayeh Pezeshki would bestow chicness on our overloaded desks. Her Designer Daily brings us out and about as she tackles the details of her very busy business.
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Photo via Moose: Art for Living
We are huge fans of Australian textile designer Heather Keiko Noonan‘s line of hand-crafted felt jewelry, Heather Keiko. This Sydney, Australia-based designer, who distributes her pieces Stateside through Areaware, forged her business in London in 2007, but moved back to Australia in 2009, where she now lives and works. Keiko sent us a glimpse of a day in the life of a busy jewelry-designing mom for this month’s Designer Dailies.
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You know Angela Adams from her rugs, which memorialize nature’s wondrous swirls in brightly-colored wool. These days she and her husband, furniture maker Sherwood Hamill, have been busy expanding the brand to include other home accessories, including bedding, tabletop, stationery, wallcoverings, and upholstered furniture. The couple lives in Portland, Maine, near where Angela grew up, and where the Angela Adams studio and retail store is located. The rugged beauty of the landscape is where Adams finds inspiration. Let’s follow her for a typical day in the studio and on the waterfront in this month’s Designer Dailies.
I usually start the day with an early morning paddle. East End Beach is down the street from my house, and a great place to watch the sunrise.
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Scott Dergance and Jonathan Coppin of Denver-based company Elemental Living design and manufacture modern furniture guided by eco-friendly principles. Both are trained architects that worked on commercial projects that had them crisscrossing the globe. In 2006 they decided to launch a Elemental Living, through which they’re devoted to creating simple furniture forms that will enhance and simplify life. They provided us with a glimpse into a typical day of two guys making it on their own.
As is the case most mornings, both Jonathan and I start our day eating breakfast with our families and getting the kids off to school. We live about 25 miles apart, so we often work from home early in the day before meeting up at the shop or other locations.
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This month’s Designer Dailies features Anita Modha and Jonathan Nodrick of ROLLOUT, the hip custom wallpaper company from Canada. Together, this dynamic duo works with tons of designers from all over the world to create one-of-a-kind patterns to adorn your sad, stark walls. They recently moved into a new studio, so I asked them to share a day in their life making really awesome wallpaper.
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Markos Aristides Kern, known as VJ Mar-K.os, first started experimenting with live visuals at the age of 19 in his home town of Heidelberg, Germany. At the age of 22, Mar-K.os moved to Munich and founded his successful VJ-label/visual design agency Visual Drugstore having worked with companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Intel, Audi, Red Bull, BMW, Hugo Boss.
In addition to this VJ Mar-K.os jet sets around the globe, fitting in international gigs into his intense work schedule. Mar-K.os has played alongside world renowned DJs in events such as Cocoon in the Park, Time Warp, Mayday, Thaibreak as well as nightclubs like the exclusive P1 Club & Lounge in Munich (where he is the resident VJ).
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