Alt Design Summit

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Stefan Sagmeister, Sagmeister & Walsh

Stefan Sagmeister was born in Austria and lives and works in New York. He has worked for the Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, The Guggenheim Museum and Levis. Exhibitions on Sagmeister's work have been mounted in New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Paris, Lausanne, Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Cologne and Berlin. 

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Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics

Chris Anderson is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012 he was the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in various positions, ranging from Technology Editor to US Business Editor. He's the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail and Free as well as the new Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. He currently resides in Berkeley, California with his wife and five children.

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Katie Sokoler, Color Me Katie

Katie Sokoler is well known for her interactive, colorful and smile inducing street art. She also works as a freelance photographer and actress. In 2008 she started sharing her happy projects on her blog, Color Me Katie, and although she thought only her dad would read it, it quickly took off and launched her career. Regardless whether through photography, art installations or film, whatever Katie creates and shares is a bright spot to readers everywhere.

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Darcy Miller, Martha Stewart Weddings

Darcy Miller is the editorial director of weddings at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. After receiving her degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she joined MSL as an editorial assistant, and has been actively involved with Martha Stewart Weddings since its launch. Darcy oversees every aspect of weddings coverage: in publishing and merchandising, on television, the web, and radio. She currently lives in NYC with her husband, three daughters, and more scrapbooks than she can possibly count.

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Emily Henderson, Style by Emily Henderson

Emily Henderson is the season 5 HGTV Design Star winner, host and designer of 'Secrets from a Stylist', founder and writer of the daily style blog, www.stylebyemilyhenderson.com where she writes about her flea market finds, styling tips and intense love for teen romances.  She is a massive shopaholic, tends to forge inappropriate relationships with vintage furniture and insists that the perfect house, like the 'perfect’ person, is boring and to be avoided at all times.    

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Erin Loechner, Design for Mankind

Freelance writer and HGTV.com talent Erin Loechner began blogging personally in 2001 and professionally in 2007 at Design For Mankind (recently honored as one of the London Time’s top 50 design blogs in the world). Erin’s work has been featured in Glamour, Lucky, Dwell, Refinery29, Nylon, Print Magazine and The Huffington Post. She has written over 1,349 blog posts with the word "awesome" enclosed.

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Scott Kurnit, Keep.com, About.com

Scott Kurnit is the founder of Keep.com, the new shopping site where all the items are crowd sourced by real people with unreal taste. Scott also founded About.com, which he grew to the 5th largest of all Web properties. He’s the holder of four patents, led the team that embedded the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network, and was the youngest program director in the PBS system.

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Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Apartment Therapy

Eight years ago, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan was known as the “apartment therapist,” traveling by scooter to his clients’ homes to help them make their spaces beautiful, organized and healthy. Today, Apartment Therapy, the website he started as part of his design services, helps more than 12 million unique readers per month accomplish the same goal for themselves. Soft-spoken and charismatic, Maxwell brings his readers and clients a nurturing aura and a well-honed philosophy of homemaking with origins in his childhood.

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Tiffanie Jones Brown, Pinterest 

Tiffani Jones Brown is a writer, editor and all-around content person at Pinterest. Before, she was a content strategist at Facebook, co-runner of design agency Things That Are Brown, and getter of a master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. She lives in San Francisco with a husband and two cats. 

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Heather B. Armstrong, Dooce

Heather B. Armstrong is the creator and writer of the popular website dooce.com. She is the author of a 2009 New York Times best selling book. Armstrong was recently named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 most influential women in media. Time Magazine has twice listed her website as one of the 25 best blogs in the world. She has appeared on many TV shows including the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Today Show.

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Karen Walrond, Chookooloonks

Karen Walrond is a (nonpracticing) attorney, writer, photographer, TEDx speaker and creator of the award-winning site Chookooloonks. Karen is also the author of The Beauty of Different, a book that will convince you that the thing that makes you different might just be your superpower.  She loves dark chocolate, a good rum, and she's wildly convinced you're uncommonly beautiful.

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Sarah Carey, Head of Everyday Food Brand

Whether developing recipes, appearing on MSLO’s programs, or other media outlets, Sarah Carey loves sharing her innate cooking passion and expert techniques. Her experience includes co-authoring Martha Stewart’s Cooking School, contributing to numerous additional MSLO cookbooks, and co-hosting the PBS cooking series “Everyday Food.” Starting in June 2012, she launched “Everyday Food with Sarah Carey” - a daily digital video series providing simple instructional demonstrations of delicious weeknight dinners.

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Jasmine Star, Jasmine Star

Jasmine Star is an international photographer and though she's garnered awards for her work and named Top 10 Wedding Photographer, her crowning accomplishment was making meatloaf for the first time last year.  She developed her brand by leveraging social media and empowering readers to be the  voice of her marketing by creating online evangelists.  Jasmine's work has been featured in national print publications and she's the proud founder and Editor-In-Chief of EXPOSED Magazine.

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Meg Keene, A Practical Wedding

Meg Keene is the Founder and Executive Editor of A Practical Wedding & Reclaiming Wife. Her first book, A Practical Wedding, was released in January 2012 and she has been the #2 bestselling  author on the wedding bookshelf ever since. She is regularly interviewed by NPR, has written for outlets such as The Huffington Post, and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Glamour Magazine, among other publications.

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Maggie Mason, Mighty Girl

Maggie Mason is an award-winning online publisher, co-founder of Go Mighty and Camp Mighty, founder of Mighty Goods, and author of No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for your blog, Her personal blog, Mighty Girl; was nominated for a SxSW Lifetime Achievement Weblog Award and she was named one of Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Influencers by Now Public.  Her Mighty Life List has been has inspired hundreds of other women to create their own lists. That last part is the best part.

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Rachel Faucett, Handmade Charlotte

Rachel Faucett is a product designer and style writer, sharing her latest finds on her site Handmade Charlotte. Her family of 7 live on a farm near Atlanta, Georgia. When she is not in her garden or pottery studio she is moving furniture about the house. Writing daily for Babble, Momtastic, and Vitals, along with her own site.

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Jordan Ferney, Oh Happy Day

Jordan Ferney is a former event planner and author of the party and lifestyle blog Oh Happy Day which features party ideas and original DIY's. Jordan has worked (or currently works) for Anthology Magazine, Apartment Therapy, Cookie Magazine.com, Babble.com, Project Wedding, and iVillage. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and two boys. 

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Ez Pudewa, Creature Comforts

Ez Pudewa is the editor and founder of Creature Comforts, a design and lifestyle blog celebrating the tiny details that make life sweet. Creature Comforts has been named one of the World's Top 50 Design Blogs by London Times online and has been featured in numerous domestic and international print publications such as Elle Decor UK, InStyle, Lucky Magazine and more. Ez has lived in Tulsa, OK for almost three years with her daughter and two dogs.

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Nicole Balch, Making it Lovely

Nicole Balch is the founder of Making it Lovely, a design and lifestyle blog about living a stylish life and transforming the so-so. Her work has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Time Out Chicago, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, and Everyday with Rachael Ray, and Making it Lovely was named one of the 50 World's Best Design Blogs by the London Times Online. Nicole lives in Oak Park, IL with her husband and two kids.

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Jaime Derringer, Design Milk

Jaime Derringer is founder and editor of modern design blog Design Milk, which has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, San Francisco Chronicle, Sing apore Home & Decor magazine, and Real Simple magazine. Design Milk is one of the Google Engineers' Staff Picks and a Twitter influencer in Art & Design. She proudly lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter and their dog, Lulu.

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Camille Styles, Camille Styles

Camille Styles is the founder and creative director of popular lifestyle blog Camille Styles, where she shares the creative entertaining ideas that inspire her parties and her life. Camille is also a regular lifestyle contributor to media outlets like Cooking Channel, HGTV, DIY Network and works as a stylist for many national brands. Her modern aesthetic and eye for detail come together to create parties that are simply chic and all about fun. 

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Jenny Komenda, Little Green Notebook

Jenny Komenda is a New York City based interior designer and blogger. Her daily posts on Little Green Notebook feature Jenny's DIY projects, client work, and bits of her family life as she and her family renovate their Brooklyn brownstone. Jenny's work has been recognized by editors at Elle Decor, Better Homes and Gardens, HGTV, House and Home, Lonny, House Beautiful and Vogue, among others.

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Natalie Bowman, @missbeaux

Natalie Bowman (@missbeaux) is a Marketing Director for Microsoft's Bing & MSN where her team creates evangelists through experiential events and building relationships with millions of social media fans. She was featured in a Facebook case study and teaches social media to bloggers via Alt Channel, Camp Mighty and others. When she is not out pinning, tweeting or gramming, she's home with her hilarious husband Jake (@stayhomepops), adorable daughter Violet and regal English bulldog Lucy.

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Wendy & Tyler, Blue Lilly

Wendy and Tyler and portrait photographers currently on a year long tour of the world, capturing families and landscapes as they go. They blog about their adventures, stories and images at bluelily.squarespace.com. Their work has been featured in the NY Times, Oprah and The Today Show. They have two children and homeschool on the road as they go.

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Becky Rosenthal, SLCfoodie

Becky Rosenthal loves Salt Lake City. Sometimes she attributes it to the four distinct seasons, other times it’s the skiing or even the summer evenings on the porch.  However, most often, it’s the food. SLCfoodie exists to bring the emerging food scene to the food lovers of Salt Lake City.  At the same time, followers will find out about many of the happenings around town, but most often food will be at the center of it.

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Allison Silber, Engaged & Inspired

After starting her career as a freelance writer at AOL and the Director of Communications for COLOURlovers Allison began working with tech startups on community, branding and social development. The other half of her life is dedicated to weddings as the founder of Engaged & Inspired where her staff of 10 brides blog about their journey to "I Do". She also co-founded a bridal event, The Lab, and is always dreaming up her next project.

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Victoria Hudgins, A Subtle Revelry

Victoria Hudgins is author to A Subtle Revelry where she shares her passion for the art of merry making. She is founding editor of Styled. magazine and editorial manager for the Alt blog. She is a craft stylist at heart and currently works for Project Wedding and Penguin Press Australia. Her work has been recently featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Elle Decor and Family Fun Magazine. As a mom to twin toddlers, she is often caught with a child at her side and balloons in her hand.

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Stacey Ferguson, Be Blogalicious

Stacey Ferguson (known online as Justice Fergie) is an avid veteran blogger, event producer, social media personality, public speaker, freelance writer, and Chief Curator of the Be Blogalicious community and conferences. As Founder of Justice Fergie’s Life IS the Party, she combines media, publishing & events to inspire women to ‘up their lifestyle quotient’ by living richly. Stacey is a wife, and mother of 3 and resides in the DC Metro Area.

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Chelsey Andrews, The Paper Mama

Chelsey is the Portland blogger and illustrator behind The Paper Mama, and is a contributor to the Better Homes and Gardens Style Spotters Blog. A lover of all things creative she likes to experiment with hair styles, DIY's, and photography. Most days you'll find her with a camera in one hand, her daughter in the other, and glitter in her third hand. Wait, three hands?

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Alison Faulkner, The Alison Show

Alison Faulkner writes, creates tutorials and spends an unhealthy amount of time filming herself for her site and channel: The Alison Show. She has years of professional experience in advertising design and copywriting, and uses them to create sassy and accessible tutorials for her site and many others. She is co-author of A Hip Handmade Holiday, part of TheCraftPack.com, and appears regularly on her local news station as a DIY and party guru.

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Laura Mayes, Blog Con Queso

Laura Mayes is an Emmy-winning writer, and a co-founder of the Mom 2.0 Summit, the Mighty Summit & Camp Mighty, Go Mighty, as well as Kirtsy. She has worked with Kirtsy to curate national art exhibits and to run nationwide programs to educate women about social media,  She speaks regularly at gatherings including SxSW, ALT Design Summit, Evo converence, TribeCon, and Interactive Strategies. Laura records her daily adventures at Blog con Queso.

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Nicole Hill Gerulat, Nicole's Classes

Nicole Hill Gerulat is a commercial photographer and founder of Nicole's Classes -an online education company teaching photography, photoshop, craft and design-based courses. Nicole's Classes offers over 20 courses and its blog has been a wonderful online resource to thousands of creatives. Nicole's photography clients include Real Simple, HGTV, Us Weekly, Parents, Kiwi and more. Updates and behind-the-scenes are posted at Nicole's blog, A Little Sussy.

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Erin Souder, House of Earnest

Erin Souder is the founder and editor of House of Earnest. She is a Columbus-based creative who specializes in creating memorable events. Always able to make ‘something from nothing’ she’s best at manipulating common items to make them special. Her projects have been featured in Chantelaine Magazine and Design Sponge, and she is a contributor for Houzz and Etsy. Erin spends her spare time renovating an old farm house with her husband and their dog.

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Melanie Blodgett, You are my Fave

Melanie writes daily at her blog You Are My Fave - a mix of projects, parties and fave finds. Her work has been featured on sites such as Apartment Therapy, Fossil, Martha Stewart Crafts Department, Design Sponge, and A Cup of Jo. You can also find her posting frequently at Babble, Disney Baby and Julep. She currently resides in Denver with her husband Ryan and their jolly baby boy, Beck.

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Matt & Julie Walke, Tiger in a Jar

Tiger in a Jar is a film production company run by husband and wife team Matt and Julie Walker. Their work is inspired by everyday life and the joy found in simple but meaningful activities. They love the process that comes along with collaboration and have worked with such clients as Kinfolk, Anthology, and Babble. 

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Kirsten Krason, 6th Street Design School

Kirsten Krason is an Interior Designer and blogger based out of Utah. Her blog 6th Street Design School follows her journey of being an Interior Designer. She loves sharing her client work with her readers as well as projects in her own home. Her colorful style and inspirational interiors have been recognized by Design Sponge, Adore Home Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and iVillage among others. 

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Alma Loveland, Ollibird

In 2007, Alma Loveland, together with her husband Mike, founded Ollibird, a company that produces digital artwork. She literally wrote the book (or at least A book) on using Adobe Illustrator and she teaches a growing curriculum of Illustrator-based online classes at nicolesclasses.com. Alma's designs have been produced in women's fashion, stationery, and online media. 

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Lana Frankel, Lana's Shop

Lana Frankel is an illustrator and custom stationery designer based out of her Denver studio. Her company, Lana's Shop, has done illustrations for Vogue events, Shopbop, lovely brides from all over and One Kings Lane. Her illustrations have a bright, chic edge stemming from her past experience as a graphic designer in the fashion world. Her favorite part of the job is to see how happy a finished product makes her client. 

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Mike Loveland, Ollibird

Artist, teacher, and photo manipulator, Mike Loveland works with his wife Alma, at Ollibird. As a digital artist, he has processed and improved countless images, formerly as director of post production at a stock photography studio, and currently at Ollibird. Since 2007, Mike has been teaching online Photoshop classes through Nicole's Classes.

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Meg Biram, megbiram.com

Meg Biram is a digital media and brand consultant, and the founder of lifestyle blog megbiram.com. Her site, originally founded in 2007 as MIMI+MEG, covers fashion, interiors, art, and business. Prior to consulting, she was a senior designer at Hallmark Cards, Inc. Her curated aesthetic evolved over years of art classes and magazine subscriptions. When she's not blogging or consulting, she's encouraging others to follow their passions in life, traveling, or painting. 

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Mina Brinkey, Bohemian Vintage

Decorating and design blogger, Mina Brinkey, works as a Social Studies high school teacher by day and authors and edits the Bohemian Vintage blog by night. Mina has been featured in various publications, such as The Tampa Bay Times, Nesting Newbies Magazine and Apartment Therapy. She has also been featured as a design expert in Allison Serrell's book New Cottage Style. She lives in sunny Tampa Bay with her husband Bill and their daughter, Savannah.

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Stephanie Morgan, Modern Parents Messy Kids

Stephanie Morgan is the founder and managing editor of Modern Parents Messy Kids as well as the resident Education and Activities Expert for eHow.com. MPMK, recently voted Best Craft Blog in Parents Magazine, provides daily inspiration to thousands of parents on how to simplify their life, find their style, and engage their kids.  The site's mega popular "Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life" series spawned an eBook to be released in early 2013.

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Jenny Batt, Hank + Hunt

Jenny Batt is a mom of two boys, the editor of Hank + Hunt, tutorial maven, content provider, decorations designer and director of the Alt Channel.  Since officially starting production of DIYs in January 2011, she has been seen on iVillage, Apartment Therapy, Real Simple, The Crafts Dept., Glo Magazine, Babble, Mollie Makes, Buzzfeed and Good Housekeeping. Oh, did we mention she is a regular contributor on The Sweetest Occasion, Oh Happy Day, and Hellobee?

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Mitra Morgan, Joss and Main

Mitra Morgan is a cofounder of Joss and Main. She indulges her love for exploration, discovery and the thrill of the find every day. Mitra is also a working mom (with an MBA!), and knows firsthand how elusive the concept of balance can be. Fortunately, she’s a problem-solver at heart, and is thrilled that her day job lets her continually bring fresh home ideas and carefully curated collections to an audience of design enthusiasts like herself. 

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Capree Kimball, My Adventure is Your Advantage!

Capree has a deep love of Victorian-era “fancy lads”, 19th Century anatomy drawings, and tin robots. Capree writes and blogs about her obsessions on My Adventure is Your Advantage! You can also find her at the helm of Dog Milk, a site dedicated to modern dog design, as the Managing Editor. When she's not gushing about cool dog stuff, she's sharing awesome DIY and craft ideas on Curbly and Wantist.

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Jessika Hepburn, Oh My! Handmade Goodness

Jessika Hepburn has been kickstarting creative communities and innovative businesses for over a decade. As editor of Oh My! Handmade Goodness, she has built a welcoming online community of over 40 contributors that engages thousands of creative entrepreneurs daily to connect and create. You can find her reigning as Mayor of Creativille at the #OMHG chats every Thursday, spreading community goodness online, or living up village life in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia with her two daughters.  

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Mariah Danielsen, Oh, What Love

Mariah is an award-winning graphic designer and marketer who discovered that she could build a business around what she loves: weddings, stationery, vintage details and DIY projects. She is the owner of Oh, What Love, a wedding decor and vintage rentals website for bohemian, indie + vintage brides, and she is the co-creator of The Create+Connect Project, a program that helps creative entrepreneurs turn their passion into profit.

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Susan Petersen, Freshly Picked

Susan Petersen is the one-woman-show behind Freshly-Picked‚ an inspirational and crafty blog. She also makes moccasins for the rich and famous (or at least their kids) and runs an online shop that sells fine leather goods under the same name, Freshly Picked. She is part of The Craft Pack and co-author of A Hip Handmade Holiday. She lives in Utah with her husband and two small children.

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Adrienne Arieff, arieff.com

Adrienne Arieff is a digital media and public relations strategist, and the founder of lifestyle and design marketing communications firm - arieffcommunications. She is author to The Sacred Thread and co-authored SPA and has a new book coming out on entrepreneurship. When she's not writing, she's being a mother to her twin girls or traveling to far way places trying to teach her children to sit on an airplane for more than an hour.

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Susan and William Brinson, House of Brinson

Susan and William Brinson craft and curate the blog House of Brinson a creative partnership on lifestyle and style in their everyday lives. Susan is a senior art director and designer and William is commercial photographer. In their live/work loft in NYC they collaborate on projects with each other and for individual clients. Susan art directs and designs and William uses the space for photo shoots.

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Chris Gardner, Curbly

Chris Gardner is the editor-in-chief of Curbly.com, a DIY home decor web community dedicated to creating and sharing how-to projects for those who love where they live. He's also the founder of ManMade, a site that explores the craft and handmade scene from a guy's perspective. He's a regular contributor to BobVila.com, and has appeared in ReadyMade, SewHip, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives and makes messes in Columbus, Ohio.

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Melanie Burk, Fifth & Hazel

Melanie Burk is the founder of Fifth & Hazel, a company that produces websites, branding, digital magazines, apps, and surface design. She also sales digital downloads at Caravan Shoppe, and teaches at Nicole's Classes. With a belief that art impacts people, Melanie aspires to create good design that invokes change for the better. She loves the outdoors, the ocean, march madness, photography, surfing, hiking, traveling, and her small family.

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Nathan Williams, Kinfolk Magazine

As the founding editor of Kinfolk Magazine, Nathan Williams works with a contributing team of photographers, writers, illustrators and designers in a collaborative effort to encourage a natural approach to entertaining. He often partners with brands such as West Elm, Anthropologie, Steven Alan, and Williams-Sonoma and coordinates a dinner series across the USA and other countries.

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Dana Willard, MADE

Dana Willard authors the popular DIY sewing and design blog MADE, giving a relatable voice to modern sewing.  Her designs have been featured in multiple creative books, magazine publications, online communities, and in award circles.  Her first book Fabrics A to Z was published recently and is essential for any sewist, new and old.  Dana lives in the hot city of Austin, TX with her husband and three kids.

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Chelsea Costa, Lovely Indeed

Chelsea Costa is a blogger by day and a musical theatre performer by night - or sometimes vice versa. Her blog, Lovely Indeed, focuses on a DIY lifestyle and all of the happiness that comes along with it. It's a place where readers go to find fresh and (dare we say) hip DIY projects, along with inspiring posts on style, travel, and food. Chelsea's also a regular contributor at Poppytalk, Society Social, and The Neighborhood.

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Beth Giles, Salvage Life

Beth Giles is the owner and curator of the online shop and blog, Salvage Life. Her shop is filled with beautiful, affordable, high quality vintage products that are relevant to a modern lifestyle. You can find Beth blogging about DIY projects using vintage materials and how to mix vintage into your wardrobe. Salvage Life has been featured in People Magazine, on the Today Show, Clever TV and products have been worn by Taylor Swift. 

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Kelly Beall, Design Crush

Kelly Beall began the blog Design Crush in 2007 as a love letter to the design community and she hasn't looked back since! Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Herman Miller, and Etsy among others and she has had the honor of working with such brands as Electrolux, Traditional Home, and Nissan. Kelly also works as a graphic designer and creative consultant when she's not chasing her two dogs and two cats around her Oklahoma City home.