By Skinny Vinny
During the holiday season, I received some lovely holiday cards from Parliament of Owls. I was taken aback by how delightful they were designed. The cards were letterpressed on a heavy card stock which made them even more special. Parliament of Owls is a New York based design collective that offer a range [...]
If anyone has turned their dreams into reality, it’s Jeff Staple. He started making t-shirts his sophomore year in college, and before the year was up he had so many orders that he had to drop out to fill them all. From there, he has built a creative empire. Staple Design encompasses a design consultancy, [...]
Scott Ballum is another entrepreneur getting his start in Green Spaces – a shared office space for socially-responsible startups. His company is named Sheepless Co. Why? In Scott’s words:
“I stopped working to promote companies I didn’t know anything about. I stopped blindly spending my money on what others thought I should like. It’s an exciting [...]
When we think cool wallpaper, we think Flavor Paper. They have funky prints, balls-to-the-wall colors, and even Scratch-N-Sniff wallpaper (below). We had no idea that they’re actually moving most of the company to Brooklyn. We met Jon Sherman, the company’s founder, in the Cobble Hill building that will be their new home, manufacturing facility, and [...]
Shanan Campanaro of Eskayel is the third designer we interviewed in our series on local wallpaper companies. Also a fine artist, Shanan derives her patterns from pieces of her paintings. And unlike the other companies we’ve met, Shanan’s paper is digitally printed, which allows her the flexibility of custom-sizing one-offs that will exactly fit your [...]
Katie Deedy from Grow House Grow! will be showing at BKLYN DESIGNS this year for the first time. Her patterns make you do a double-take. Subtle, hidden elements emerge the longer you look. Her new line is to die for – literally – inspired by historical characters who met shocking and untimely deaths. Are you [...]
Gearing up for BKLYN DESIGNS, which opens this Friday May 8th, we interviewed several Brooklyn-based wallpaper designers who will be participating in the show. Each of these designer/entrepreneurs has a different take on making wallpaper, and we found it fascinating to compare and contrast their companies.
First we bring you Jill Malek out of Cobble Hill, [...]
I’ve followed Swiss Miss’s blog for what feels like a long time now. It’s one of my very favorites for its mixture of all things good design, across the discplines. When we found out that Tina, the woman behind it all, also has her own design studio and it’s located in DUMBO, we headed on [...]
Ryan is the force behind Pomp&Clout, and the king of video flyers. What is a video flyer, you might ask? It’s a new promotional medium which is enabled by viral file-sharing. Pomp&Clout’s eye for graphics and ear for beats are a killer combination, leading to amazing music-related graphics. www.pompandclout.com
How did Pomp & Clout start?
I discovered the Fuck Off Sarah Palin T-shirt just as my terror at having Palin as a VP was peaking. I thought, if anything captures the zeitgeist right now, it’s this. I wanted to know who was behind it. Kim Berlin is a creative director who decided to get political after she became supremely pissed [...]
