Category Archives: Product Designer

Emily Dubner

What if eating delicious desserts like chocolate chip cookies was actually good for you? Just ask Emily Dubner, who’s has made eating sweets good for everyone with her company, Baking for Good. The online bake-sale provides irresistible treats tailored for … Continue reading

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Nate Berkus

Despite being known for his immaculate interiors, superstar designer Nate Berkus feels that his rooms are not complete until they are “filled with laughter and the first piece of furniture has a stain, a scratch, or a nick.” His signature … Continue reading

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Tom Fruin

Broken plexiglass, lost playing cards and discarded drug baggies may seem like trash to most people…but not to Tom Fruin. These are just some of the materials that this New York-based artist uses to form his large-scale sculptures. His 2006 … Continue reading

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Catarina Carreiras

A quick look at Catarina Carreiras’s work and patterns emerge. Her artful reinvention of circles, squares and triangles has made simple shapes into elaborate designs for exhibitions, graphics and clothing. This young Portuguese star seems to be leaving her mark … Continue reading

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We Make Carpets

Pasta, toy soldiers, forks and balloons are just a sampling of the materials Stijn van der Vleuten, Marcia Nolte and Bob Waardenburg use to make…carpets. As the design team behind “We Make Carpets,” the trio creates temporary floor coverings based on the shape of their chosen … Continue reading

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Zhao Lei

Zhao Lei’s favorite object in his home is a coat rack. That might seem like an odd choice to some, but it wouldn’t if they had one designed by Zhao. His seemingly simple coat rack shows a mastery of geometry, … Continue reading

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Åsa Kärner

Åsa Kärner’s designs sit well with people (or is it the other way around?) because this Swedish designer creates beautiful and unconventional furniture. Her recent Alvisilkchair was constructed by combining silk thread in and through an oak frame, which formed … Continue reading

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Matt W. Moore

When Matt W. Moore shows his true colors, he does so on murals, clothing, bicycles, and well, pretty much everything. That’s because this immensely talented artist uses countless hues on innumerable surfaces. His signature “Vectorfunk” style combines geometric shapes with … Continue reading

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Jonathan Adler

“You have no talent. Go be a lawyer.” It’s hard to imagine anyone saying that to superstar designer Jonathan Adler, but that’s exactly what his pottery professor told him many years ago. That statement was all the motivation Jonathan needed to … Continue reading

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Dan Funderburgh

Designer Dan Funderburgh’s work is off the wall, even though it mostly exists on the wall. That’s because Dan creates awe inspiring wallpaper designs through his partnership with the Flavorpaper studio, where his designs are hand screen printed to turn … Continue reading

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Michele Michael

When Elephant Props founder Michele Michael couldn’t find the tabletop items she was looking for, she made her own. Now, in addition to running her prop house with husband Patrick Moore, Michele creates stunning handmade ceramics. She uses saturated colors … Continue reading

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Yukihiro Kaneuchi

Yukihiro Kaneuchi reveals more than just his personality in his clever product designs. For instance, upon closer investigation of his recent coffee mug creation, a meticulously drawn landscape of a girl dancing in a meadow can be seen inside of … Continue reading

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Jason Podlaski

  Recycled skateboard furniture. Those are three words that aren’t typically put side-by-side, but it’s exactly what Jason Podlaski puts together as the founder of Deckstool. Jason rescues broken skateboard decks from their landfill fate and assembles them into one-of-a-kind … Continue reading

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Anna Rabinowicz

Jewelry isn’t the only way to give and receive beautiful gems this holiday season.  Anna Rabinowicz, founder of RabLabs, offers beautiful platters, coasters, bottle stoppers and more made out of agate, a semiprecious gemstone. It’s the perfect way to bring … Continue reading

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Jonathan Chapman aka Mr.Yen

Paper cuts are annoyingly painful. Unless, of course, those paper cuts were constructed by Jonathan Chapman (aka Mr. Yen). Jonathan, a hybrid typographer, graphic designer and paper artist delicately hand cuts beautiful designs and illustrations to make stationery and fine … Continue reading

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