where and what

Note; please see entries about alums in body of blog, sample images of work on right, website links for alums below, and alum blogs lower right... and for goodness sake, follow!




Saturday, September 20, 2014

Daniel Stevens - New Website



Congratulations to Daniel & his launch of his new website!
Daniel has been busy creating and submitting designs to Threadless in his spare time - For the above design he notes:

"Currently the #3 design out of 120 folks!!! Yay!! Share the link with friends so they can vote or possibly fund the design ($20+free shipping). The design will be sold on the site if:
- I win the competition
- 50 people fund
- My score is so high they decide to sell the shirt even though I lost."
 http://www.danielallenstevens.com/

from his site, he notes:

Brooklyn Artist/Designer Daniel Allen Stevens has 8 years of professional experience as a Designer and Illustrator. He's loaned his talents to the toy industry, home decor industry and apparel industry. 
The list of brands and companies Daniel's worked with consists of small startup companies to big name companies like; Disney, Warner Bros, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Nickelodeon.



Congratulations on the site Daniel!

Support Kimberly Lewis - Grange Contest!




Pratt Alum and Friends; please lend your support for Kimberly! She has been invited to participate in a contest sponsored by Grange Furniture and your votes will help her!
She notes in a recent email:

Bonjour mes amis!
I am participating in a contest that the french furniture company Grange is hosting. If you are interested in winning a trip to Paris read on! 

Grange Furniture invited me to design an ambiance using their directoire console. They posted the five designer entries today (Mine being one of them!) They will be sending the blogger/designer with the most votes on their entry PLUS one of their blog readers (aka YOU!) to Paris in January to visit their booth at Maison et Objet which is a design trade show, as well as a visit to their factory in Lyon. I would absolutely love to win and possibly bring you with me! Here is how to enter! 

Step 1: Like Grange Furniture on Facebook 

Step 2: Like this photo: http://bit.ly/TakemetoParis

Merci beaucoup and bonne chance! 

Best,
Kimberly

See what she's been up to lately, here: 

https://www.facebook.com/KimberlyLewisHome

http://www.kimberlylewishome.com/blogs/not-for-wallflowers

http://www.kimberlylewishome.com/

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Linda Hsiao - Knotwork LA





I recently saw an image passing through FB and was startled by the beauty of it.
Linda Hsiao, Pratt ID alum. had posted a moment and image of that moment. Her post read:

"Nothing like fresh camomile tea and shelling some dragon beans and black eyed peas from a trip to Sundays Hollywood farmers market with @mtwashingtonpottery . Going to hang the camomile after a few more cups of fresh tea☕️ before bed."

The image that joins the blurb is this one:



So much joy there, I couldn't help but see what Linda had been up to. 
More Joy.
Linda Hsiao and Kagen Taylor founded Knotwork... Let me let them tell you. From their website:



ABOUT


Collaboration between Linda Hsiao & Kagan Taylor.

Linda is an industrial designer, ceramicist, gardener, and chef. While not knotworking she freelance designs eyewear and accessories. Her desire for more beautiful kitchen tools and gifts for her nephew are the inspiration for many of Knotwork’s products
Kagan is an architect, woodworker, and teacher of design and craft. He is one half of the Highland Park design/build firmKnowhow Shop LA and an obsessive collector of tools and techniques.
Knotwork LA was created as a outlet to identify the work we do in our spare time, it began as evenings and weekends spent in the shop and studio, precious pieces of wood saved from other projects or found while hiking, ideas that came to us in the middle of the night, and a desire to create beautiful, useful things.

Classes, Studio, Wood-craft, Ceramics, Lifestyle design & this week a Knotwork Pop-Up at MOCA in LA.


I never had the pleasure of having Linda in one of my classes at Pratt, but I am very happy to see a Pratt ID alum taking this path. I believe Linda is working as an eyewear designer and Knotwork is her personal exploration of bringing her passion to life in commerce and education. 
If you haven't,  check out the website. It's as joyful as the intent to share and care and spread creativity through actions & objects and lifestyle design. Just a few more images and once the Pop-Up is complete, more about the path and the future for Linda and Knotwork.






Congratulations to Linda and Kagen with the MOCA Pop-Up!  best of luck and I look forward to part 2 of this feature to hear more about the past, present and future of Linda and KnotworkLA!

Monday, July 14, 2014

Daniel Stevens




Daniel Stevens (graduate Pratt ID, 2006) Daniel is currently working designing graphics for a woman's sleepwear company, Richard Leeds International - as well as freelancing with his own time and keeping his creative juices flowing in by, as he notes:
"constantly entering competitions on Threadless.com It's a fun way to keep my design skills honed. I actually feel like i'm back in school because every competition is a new challenge and i'm a competitive dude so it's fun."

Check out Daniel's ongoing submissions to Threadless.com and other info, gestures, and interests here;

http://humaneclecticblog.tumblr.com/

Daniel is working on a T-shirt website, and revamping his personal site. It's a great pleasure to see his smiling face on FB and his continued work in crossover applications of design/graphics/fine arts.
More to come. Congrats Daniel.


Monday, June 16, 2014

Fort Standard - Around the Globe


Gregory Buntain & Ian Collings really don't need a spot here, which is precisely why
they need a spot here. Until I actually sit with them, if and when they have the time, for a few words, it's really not worth putting words to, since so many others have done such a good job of it to date.

So here are a few images and their stockist list - from their website. nuf said. for now.











Fort Standard Stockists
14 feet
229 N Cloverdale Blvd Cloverdale, CA 95425
ABC Carpet & Home
ACRE/SF
AHAlife Logistics
200 Liberty Way, Cranbury Township, NJ 08512
Affaire 46
Predigerplatz 46 8001 Zürich, Switzerland
Alchemy Works
826 E 3rd St Los Angeles, CA 90013
Aldea Home
Artefact LLC
ARTIFACTS 敦南旗艦店
ARTIFACTS - COUNTER
110, Taiwan, Taipei City, Xinyi District, Sōnggāo Rd, 11號 2樓.3樓
Atelier Solarshop
Dambruggestraat 48 2060 Antwerpen, Belgium
Barbican Art Gallery
Beam & Anchor
Bird - Downtown BK
Bird - Williamsburg
The Botanist
Brooklyn Museum Shop
Buisjes & Beugels
Walhallalaan 44 3072 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
CEDAR & HYDE
2015 10th St Boulder, CO 80302
Chay
Citizen Stone
Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Chiara Colombini
6 Rue de la Résidence 78490 Les Mesnuls, France
Coming Soon
The Conran Shop Ltd
The Conran Shop Ltd
The Conran Shop
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Crate & Barrel
DwellStudio
Douglas and Bec
Douglas & Bec /Normandy Rd
22 Normanby Rd Mt Eden, Auckland 1024, New Zealand
El Cosmico
Enclave Inc
Erica Tanov Store
ESPACIO MIAMI
4100 NE 2nd Ave #303 North Miami, FL 33137
Everyday Needs Showroom
6 Kirk St Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand
Forage Modern Workshop
Front
Future Perfect - GREAT JONES
FUTURE PERFECT - SAN FRANCISCO
3085 Sacramento St San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 932-6508
Garden & Gun Magazine
General Store / LA
General Store - SAN FRANCISCO
Gestalten Pavilion
Budapester Straße 38 10787 Berlin, Germany
Gestalten Space
Good
Hammer Museum
Harry's Corner Shop
Healdsburg SHED
Heath Ceramics Inc
Homecoming
Homenature
House of Honey
Hudson Grace
Judith
3 Market St Portland, ME 04101
Kingston Wine Co.
Kollekt
11538 W Tempe Ln Star, ID 83669
Lawson-Fenning
Lost & Found
Magic Pony
Magpie & Rye
262 Divisadero St San Francisco, CA 94117
Makers and Brothers
Marinsel
Matter
Max and Moritz
7209 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025
Mia
Via di Ripetta, 224 00186 Roma, Italy
Michele Varian
27 Howard St New York, NY 10013
Mille
316 W 48th St Minneapolis, MN 55419
Mohawk General Store
MoMA PS1
Monoqi
Kraanlei 27 9000 Gent, Belgium
Mr Kitly
MUMO
LERDO DE TEJADA 2164 Lafayette, 44160 Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico
Need Supply Co
Ogilvy
Oval Korea
436-24 Changjeon-dong (110-14 Wausan-ro) Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Paul Smith Ltd
Paul Smith Fifth Avenue
People of 2Morrow
Personnel of New York
Pinch Food Design LLC
Plenty Mercantile
PRIMARY ESSENTIALS
372 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217
Propeller
555 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Provide
Reimagine
Rooming
796-27 Bangbae-dong (6 Bangbae-ro 36-gil and 4 others) Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea
SCOSHA
SCP Ltd
Scrub Oak
Shed Healdsburg
SHIN KONG MITSUKOSHI
No. 15, Nánjīng West Rd, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 104
Shinola
Spartan
Spina
Stahlblau
Gerechtigkeitsgasse 79 3011 Bern, Switzerland
STEVEN ALAN - CHELSEA
140 10th Ave New York, NY 10011
Steven Alan - Hayes
445 Hayes St San Francisco, CA 94102
STEVEN ALAN - HOME
158 Franklin St New York, NY 10013
Steven Alan - Portland
1029 SW Stark St Portland, OR 97205
STEVEN ALAN - TRIBECA/WEB
103 Franklin St New York, NY 10013
STEVEN ALAN - WESTPORT
100 Post Rd Westport, CT 06880
Stilleben
Still House
Strangelets
Stuart Nordin Home & Design
Summer House
Sunset Beach
Svenskt Tenn AB
Sword + Fern
811 E Burnside St #114, Portland, OR 97214
Task
TENOVERSIX - MELROSE, LOS ANGELES
TEVOVERSIX - DALLAS,TX
1530 Main St Dallas, TX 75201
Tomorrow-licious
Klenzestraße 16 80469 München, Germany
Tonic
42 7th Ave Randburg 2193, South Africa
Triode
TWIST
Unison
VACANT
VESSEL
95 Prescott Ave Monterey, CA 93940
Vagabond
Walker Art Center