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DMTV Milkshake: Designer Amanda Jane Jones on Finding Your Niche + Balancing Your Identities

Design Milk

Her iconic work as the founding designer of Kinkolk established a visual identity not just for the magazine but for a generation. Launched in 2011, Kinfolk and its spare vision created an aesthetic but also a value set: precision, beauty, a consumer spareness bordering on spartan. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? “It’s

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F5: Fabrice Juan Talks Unexpected Architecture, a Favorite Italian Museum + More

Design Milk

Fabrice Juan first stepped out to found his own agency in 2011 following extensive work experience as Jean-Louis Deniot’s project manager – and a supportive push from his wife. A dialogue between architecture and furniture design, innovation and style, presents itself across Juan’s portfolio.

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The Design Milk X Modenus Talks Lounge Returns to KBIS 2023

Design Milk

Join LuAnn Nigara as she moderates a rock star line up to discuss best practices between designers and builders. And whether designers are charging an hourly or a flat fee to their clients, how do they come up with these numbers? Success these days is often defined one client at a time. We are creatives folks!

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Spotlight on Trailblazing Female Designers: Part 1

Design Milk

Born and bred in New York City, multi-disciplinary designer, sculptor, and self-described mad scientist Erica Sellers is co-founder of Studio S II (ess-TOO), a product and interior design studio based in Brooklyn. Today, she’s Design Director at Pembrooke & Ives. Eco Full Circle Throw via Design Milk.

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In Conversation: DesignAgency on 25 Years as Hospitality Heavy-hitters

Azure Magazine

APPETIZERS: 1998 – 2011 1 Pick the right people to work with Davis met Chan while studying landscape architecture at the University of Toronto and connected with Mekhayech (who has an engineering degree from Western) while working at Kensington Kitchen, a Mediterranean restaurant that Mekhayech’s dad owned on Harbord Street. AM [Laughs.]

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The AZ Awards 2021 is Open for Entries!

Azure Magazine

The AZ Awards has been recognizing excellence in design and architecture across the world for over a decade now. Since AZURE debuted the AZ Awards in 2011, the program has grown in size, scope and momentum to be internationally recognized for its influence in the global design and architecture spheres. Enter here ! ELIGIBILITY.

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Top 10 Best Logo Design Books for Designers

Inkbot Design

For the aspiring designer hoping to break into logo design, certain books provide an ideal foundation for the core principles and best practices. Leading designers share hard-won lessons on creativity, execution, and working with clients.