design

I discovered my love for sweaters and sweater construction while working on my Master’s degree at Washington State University. My first professional opportunity was as an assistant technical designer at Nordstrom. I was working with the sweaters for my brand and was given more responsibility than was typical for this position. Working there taught me ins and outs of the industry that just couldn’t be learned in school. When I was ready, I left the company and started teaching part-time to facilitate my move toward starting my own company creating knit downs and sweater samples for smaller design companies.

Sweater types

Economic doom and gloom does have an upside. It has laid the foundations for a fertile new landscape of creativity and innovation.

After shooting fashion and editorials for eight years, Todd Selby turned a personal project into the talk of the design and sartorial worlds. TheSelby.com offers up amazing shots of creative kinds in their own homes and offices.

Most modern furniture aficionados are loyal to the classic molded shell chairs, cast in brightly colored plastic and formed into a soft, comfortable seat. But in the pursuit of more sustainable design, petroleum-based materials can't keep up, and in order to produce forms with the same visual appeal, we have to be resourceful.