Lichen creates sustainably-minded housewares and accessories that beg to be touched – whether it’s enjoying the tactile quality of felt, or playing with the movable magnetic parts that many of their products feature. The beauty of trade shows is getting to see these kinds of objects in person. Rounding out our coverage of last week’s [...]
Tags: Accessories, Business, Creative, Design, Interview, Products, Seattle, Sustainability
TOUCH works with designers and manufacturers to create meaningful, socially-responsible products, with a common goal of doing good together. It’s run by Zoë Melo – who for years has worked as a consultant helping companies develop products, and recently has slowly started to represent products herself. She also exhibits products and holds events in TOUCH’s [...]
Tags: Business, Consulting, Creative, Design, Interview, Los Angeles, Manufacturing, Products, Sustainability
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 [...]
Crop To Cup is a startup fair-trade coffee-importing company. (Their office is in Green Spaces, who we interviewed last week.) Ever wonder who farmed the beans in your coffee? With Crop To Cup you can know – their website features profiles and videos of each of their growers. They take fair trade to a whole [...]
Tags: Brooklyn, Business, Coffee, Creative, Distribution, Downtown Brooklyn, Interview, New York, Sustainability
One of the hardest things, when you start working for yourself, is defining a workspace. Do you set up an office, or is that too expensive? Do you work out of your house? Will that drive you crazy? What do you do about client meetings? Jennie saw this problem and created a solution.
Green Spaces [...]
Tags: Associations, Brooklyn, Business, Creative, Design, Downtown Brooklyn, Interview, New York, Sustainability, Workspace
Way back in December we were approached by curators Dan Rubinstein and Jen Renzi to participate in their ICFF offsite show, InDisposed. At that point the show seemed so far in the future, but lo and behold, we set up tomorrow!
The brief they put together is amazing. In their own words:
As environmentalism has infiltrated contemporary [...]
Amy creates gorgeous ceramics pieces in her studio, Perch. Something about her work just tugs at your heart-strings. All of the pieces are lovingly designed and made in Red Hook, Brooklyn. We sat on the water by IKEA, ironically enough, and discussed how she has managed to build a company around low-run local manufacturing.
Shake-a-leg salt [...]
Tags: Accessories, Brooklyn, Business, Ceramics, Creative, Design, Interview, Manufacturing, New York, Pratt, Red Hook, Sustainability
Uhuru (Pronounced: oo-hoo-roo) was founded in 2004, by Bill Hilgendorf and Jason Horvath. Uhuru is a design + build furniture company dedicated to sustainability and creating timeless designs. Each piece is built by hand in their Brooklyn studio, a huge building right on the water which used to be used for making ship parts. We [...]
Tags: Brooklyn, Business, Creative, Design, Furniture, Interview, Manufacturing, New York, Red Hook, RISD, Sustainability, Woodworking
Sam is a fellow Pratt alum who has gone on to become a creative entrepreneur. He moved from his product design background to creating hi-tech systems that function on an architectural scale. SMIT’s products are beautiful, sophisticated panels for harnessing renewable energy. Their work is already in MoMA’s permanent collection. WOWZA! http://s-m-i-t.com
Your company is strongly [...]
Tags: Architecture, Brooklyn, Business, Creative, Design, Fort Greene, Interview, New York, Pratt, Products, Solar, Sustainability, Technology
I’ve seen Brave Space at Brooklyn Designs in past years and have always been in love with their Coat Range (below). When we set up the interview, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they’re practically our neighbors, located here in Bushwick as well! So obviously I love them even more. Even better, all [...]
Tags: Brooklyn, Bushwick, Business, Creative, Design, Furniture, Interview, Manufacturing, New York, Sustainability, Woodworking
