This month’s portfolio review features Melody, a textile design student at North Carolina State University College of Textiles who is beginning to think more intentionally about where her work migh...

Some artists discover their creative path slowly. For Mindy Young, it began with a simple search for something that didn't seem to exist.

While preparing for the arrival of her fourth child, Mindy...

Fall has a way of changing a room before we have changed anything in it. The morning light sits differently. Evenings pull us toward the sofa a little earlier. A chair that barely got used in July ...

A guest room can have everything a guest needs and still miss the one thing that makes them feel welcome. The bed is made either way. The towels are folded either way. But some guest rooms make you...

This month’s portfolio review features Marina Manova, who is considering moving beyond print-on-demand and beginning to pitch her work to wallpaper and interiors companies.

Marina already has a...

Every artist has had this experience at some point: a piece you love, one that feels like some of your best work, gets passed over, without a clear explanation of why. That moment can be discouragi...

AI and robotics are showing up in more of our conversations about American manufacturing lately, and we've found ourselves genuinely fascinated by it. We don't have this all figured out. But we've ...

Many of us have had some version of this experience.

A course opens for enrollment and within minutes we're doing the math. We start looking for ways to make it work. We can see the value immediat...

This month’s portfolio review features Maria Flores, who submitted a single pattern for feedback and invited us to take a deeper look at the collections featured on her website.

As we explored ...

People love to say that Martha Stewart started at 50.

I understand why.

It’s encouraging, especially for women who worry they’ve missed their chance to build something meaningful. It reminds us t...

Interior designers spend a surprising amount of their time managing competing priorities.

A client wants one thing. The budget allows for another. A contractor is waiting on decisions. Lead times ...

A funny thing happens when you do something for the first time.

You spend months imagining what will happen, and then reality shows up and gives you a completely different education.

That's how A...