Archive for 'Profiles'
Featured indieNC Designer: Sonya Coulson Rook, Metamorphosis Metals
Tell us a little more about your business and how you got started: My business started as a hobby and has slowly grown from there. I first started making jewelry while studying art in college. I tried working in several different media before a professor suggested that I take a Metal Design class. I signed [...]
3 Comments »Bake It Pretty, Amanda Krueger
Amanda Krueger runs the online shop Bake It Pretty from her Asheville home. Her boutique specializes in cute, vintage-inspired items to decorate food and baked goods, all of which you didn’t know you needed until now. Who can resist a forest-themed cupcake complete with tiny deer and mushrooms? Read on for our interview with Amanda [...]
¡Perfecto! Short Film
Recently, ¡Perfecto!, a short film directed by Blake Edwards and written by Erin Fede of Charlotte took 1st place in Project:Direct an international film competition sponsored by YouTube, Moviefone and Sundance Film Festival. Hundreds of movies were submitted, a panel at the Sundance Film Festival narrowed those entries down to ten and then YouTube users [...]
Art-O-Mat
Art-O-Mat is a clever, portable gallery showcasing tiny pieces of artwork in vintage cigarette machines. Founded in 1997 in Winston-Salem by conceptual artist Clark Whittington, the machines were first used to display his own work at a solo art show but soon morphed into a unique, traveling, multi-artist gallery. The goal of Art-O-Mat is to [...]
Splinter, Wooden Supercar
Joe Harmon, a graduate of NC State’s Industrial Design program took on an ambitious graduate project by deciding to build a car for his master’s thesis, but not just any car, a wooden supercar. Joe explains his process and motivation for building this 3-year long intensive, labor of love. Other than your car being made [...]
Profile: Spoonflower, Mebane, NC
Stephen & Kim Fraser are the owners of Spoonflower a new print-your-own fabric company that has taken the online craft world by storm. A couple of months ago, while they were still in their beta-mode, I had the opportunity to send some of my own designs to them to have printed. I was very pleased [...]
Shop Profile: Lark & Key, Charlotte, NC
Lark & Key is a boutique in Charlotte, NC. I recently interviewed owners Sandy Snead and Duy Huynh about their shop and some favorite things about residing and doing business in North Carolina. Can you tell me more about the designers that you have featured in the shop? Lark & Key features a variety of [...]
