Design, etc. sits down with interior designer, lifestyle blogger, and all around creative empresario Breegan Jane and Interiors magazine executive editor Erika Heet to talk about what it means to be “native” in a multicultural melting pot like Los Angeles, and how she designed a space to reflect the culinary style of Nyesha Arrington, who the late great Jonathan Gold described as “a chef whose food tastes like LA.”
Design, etc. visits textile designer Annabel Inganni of Wolfum in her Alhambra workshop that she shares with her husband and his business partner, both furniture makers and woodworkers. Together with her husband Annabel is creating something special for Design is for Everyone that will really let their imaginations set sail. We stood in a sea of sawdust and learned more about where all the ideas come from. Design, Etc. is the 'official' podcast of the LA Design Festival. It's hosted by LA Design Festival founder, Haily Zaki and produced by Convo By Design Studios.
Design, etc. sits down with the always fashionable, preeminent curator of all things beautiful, Rose Apodaca, co-founder of A+R to talk about the evolution of the LA design scene, how it’s changed, and where it might be headed. We also uncover a few interesting life stories about when she used to own a bar. Make sure to attend the LA Design Festival June 7th-10th at ROW DTLA. Subscribe for episodes recorded LIVE for the festival. Design, Etc. is produced by Convo By Design Studios.
Design, Etc. was live at Dwell On Design for a fascinating conversation featuring two very interesting individuals, Clay Alexander CEO of Ember and Erik Charlton CEO of Noon Home. They run companies that are trailblazing the path toward fully integrated products and home automation. The conversation was led by Josh Cooperman (who also produces Design, Etc.). They discuss their products and how they envision an integrated home. Design, Etc. is the Official podcast of the LA Design Festival and is produced by Convo By Design Studios.
Design, etc. continues our exploration of Kohler Street in the Arts District, sitting down with two of the original members of the Kohler Collective, a loose - but tight - group of friends and makers. Provocative metal worker and furniture fabricator Meyghan Hill of (wh)ORE HAüS Studios and skilled glassblower and lighting designer and fabricator Uri Davillier of Neptune Glassworks sat down with us to talk about the genesis of Design Night, creative collaboration, and how it all started. This episode is hosted by Haily Zaki, Co-Founder of the LA Design Festival and produce by Convo By Design Studios.
On an otherwise quiet street in the Arts District, these very noisy makers can literally create anything. Design, etc. sits down with Preston Johnston (Fathom & Form) and Nick Knudsen (Dr. Knudsen), two of the artists who work out of a warehouse on Kohler Street. Get a peek inside (and listen in on) this one-stop collaborative workshop which features so many creative trades, from glassblowing and welding, to custom art for floors, walls, ceilings, and furniture. Design, Etc. is the official podcast of the LA Design Festival and is produced by Convo By Design Studios. The LA Design Festival is June 7-10, 2018. For details… www.LADesignFestival.Org
This episode of Design, etc. has a global theme, starting with an interview on the steps of the Triennale Museum in Milan with founding members of World Design Weeks to talk about this global network, of which the LA Design Festival is proud to be a part. And Producer Josh Cooperman sits down with Lana Sutherland from TEALEAVES, a Canadian purveyor of the finest of teas, to talk about the power of this unsung beverage, their documentary Color in Sight, as well as their upcoming #LanguageofAroma project.
Design, etc. sits down with Tim Campbell in his beautiful studio located on a hidden mews in Culver City. He shares his unique point of view on the importance of beauty, the story of his new book "Intentional Beauty," and how he balances his Bauhaus design minimalist proclivities with his penchant for collecting old world and global pieces steeped in memories and meaning. Also, we just want to live in his office which features original French parquet floors.
Fashion designer Jill Aiko Yee sits down with two-time Oscar-nominated costume designer Ruth E. Carter, whose latest project is Black Panther, to talk about Ruth's work, her creative process, what makes costume design different from fashion design, and how she decompresses between projects. Stay tuned till the end to hear funny story about Michael B. Jordan. The LA Design Festival is proud to announce that Ruth E. Carter is the 2018 recipient of the ICON Award. Design, Etc. is produced by @ConvoByDesign Studios.
We met with photographer and designer Krizia Florez, the quite creative force behind Concrete Geometric. Krizia creates faceted vessels and homewares out of concrete and works out of her studio in the Valley. Last year she designed the LA Design Festival’s gorgeous awards, and this year, she is even more involved. Concrete Geometric will not only be making the awards for the LA Design Festival, and be featured as part of the LA Original pop-up shop, but Krizia will also be creating something new and larger scale for the Design for Everyone exhibition, a special show that celebrates that special je ne sais quoi that makes LA such a great place for creative collaboration and freedom. She’s drawing inspiration from something that we all know and understand intimately here in LA: traffic. Thanks so much to Krizia Florez from Concrete Geometric for chatting with us today. Keep en eye out for her work at the LA Design Festival, as part of the LA Original pop-up shop, a featuerd artist in the Design is for Everyone exhibition, and on Awards Night. This episode of Design, etc. is produced by @ConvoByDesign Studios. Download Design, etc. at iTunes and drop us an e-mail at ladesignfestival.org to let us know what you think.
Design, etc. sits down with industrial designer Linda Hsiao of Knotwork LA at her Highland Park studio to talk about her journey from the OC to New York City and back to Los Angeles, how she discovered ceramics and found her way to being a happy, designing, modern hippy, and what she's got planned for the special LA Design Festival exhibition "Design is for Everyone."
For the past few years, the LA Design Festival has produced a printed guide called Design, Etc. This year, we start anew with a podcast that will cover the constantly changing and evolving rich and vibrant LA design community. This is the inaugural episode hosted by Haily Zaki, founder of the LA Design Festival and featuring KCRW's Frances Anderton and Please Do Not Enter co-founder, Nicolas Libert. What makes a global design city? Is LA there yet?