Alt Design Summit

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Tina Roth Eisenberg, Swiss Miss

Tina Roth Eisenberg is a swiss born designer working and living in Brooklyn, NYC. For nearly 5 years, Tina was the Design Director at Thinkmap. In 2006, she founded SwissMiss Studio an interactive studio focussing on web applications, e-commerce sites and iPhone applications. Tina is the author of the wildly popular design weblog SwissMiss. 

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Heather Armstrong, Dooce

Heather B. Armstrong, founder and creator of dooce.com was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 25 Web Celebrities and Top 30 Most Influential Women in Media. Heather has a Twitter following of 1.56 million. She has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Glamour Magazine, The New York Times, The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, Nightline and Oprah.

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Grace Bonney, Design Sponge

Grace Bonney is the founder and editor-in-chief of Design*Sponge, a daily blog dedicated to all things "home". In addition to overseeing a team of 20 freelance writers who contribute articles on everything from floral design and recipes to DIY projects, Grace recently finished Design*Sponge's first book, Design*Sponge at Home, due on shelves in 2011.

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Paul Lowe, Sweet Paul

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Jenny Komenda, Little Green Notebook

Jenny Komenda is a decorator and the author behind Little Green Notebook, a blog featuring inspiring interior design and achievable decorating DIY projects. When Jenny is not blogging or exploring New York City with her three little daughters, she is dreaming up rooms for clients of Jenny Komenda Interiors.

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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.  Oh Happy Day has been represented by the Martha Stewart Ad Network since 2007. Jordan currently writes for Babble.com's Family Style, Project Wedding and Hip Hip Hooray. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons.

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Kathryn Storke, Snippet & Ink

Kathryn Storke is the founder and editor of Snippet & Ink, a wedding blog that marries her love of pretty things and her love of love. After hopping from state to state for the last nine years, she's finally returned home to the Bay Area with her fiance and a sassy little cat named Lady Bird.

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Paul D. Miller, DJ Spooky

Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician based in New York. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. He's most recent release, Sound Unbound, is an anthology of writings on electronic music and digital media. 

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Stephanie Nielson, Nie Nie Dialogues

Stephanie Nielson is a popular blogger and author of nieniedialogues. She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Today Show with Matt Lauer.  She and her husband Christian were involved in a serious airplane accident, and she shares often how life is like with her new appearance and physical limitations. Stephanie lives in Provo with her 4 beautiful children.

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Anne Sage, The City Sage

Anne Sage is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Rue Magazine, an online interiors and entertaining publication with a fashion and lifestyle sensibility. She also founded The City Sage, a blog that features daily inspiration for fashion and interior design. She lives in San Francisco.

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Joy Deangdeelert Cho, Oh Joy!

Joy Deangdeelert Cho is a graphic designer and blogger who worked with numerous fashion clients in New York before launching her own business, Oh Joy! in 2005. She now designs textiles, packaging, and branding for clients in the fashion and food industries, consults other creative businesses through her Rx program, and sells her stationery, home office, and wallpaper line nationwide.

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Ashley Meaders, Ashley Meaders

Ashley Meaders is an event designer and crafter. She has joined forces with a collective called The Flashdance, which produces weddings and events all over the country with noted photographers Max Wanger and Our Labor of Love, as well as videographer Shark Pig, DJ the Human Jukebox and the Smilebooth. Ashley lives in Atlanta with her husband and 3 cats...Vector, Raster, and Remington.

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Ez Pudewa, Creature Comforts

Ez Pudewa is the founder and editor of Creature Comforts, a design and inspiration blog. Creature Comforts has been featured in numerous domestic and international print publications and was named as one of the World's Top 50 Design Blogs by London Times online. She is a recent transplant to Tulsa, OK where she lives with her daughter and their two dogs.

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Christine Koh, Boston Mamas

Christine Koh completed her Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellowship in music and brain science before becoming the founder and editor of Boston Mamas. She is the designer behind Posh Peacock, writes a personal blog at Pop Discourse, and pens the column Minimalist Mama. She resides in the Boston area with her husband and 6-year-old daughter and is expecting a second daughter in March 2011.

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Liz Stanley, Say Yes To Hoboken

Liz Stanley blogs daily at Say Yes to Hoboken, a collection of beautiful things and creations, when she's not camping under the Golden Gate bridge, digging for treasures at local thrift stores or making a new craft. Born and raised a New Yorker, Liz is now happy to call the fairytale city of San Francisco home with her husband and son.

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Erin Loechner, Design For Mankind

Erin Loechner is your favorite girl online. Juggling an active Internet career with writing, speaking and consulting, Erin can be found at DesignForMankind.com, her art/design blog that was 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, Readymade, Nylon, Print Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and the Huffington Post.

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Karey Mackin, Mackin Ink

Karey Mackin is the wordier half of the T.ruffle Girls, the creative confectionery where she and her brilliant photographer friend make candy for your soul. They sell some of it in their cheery Etsy shoppe. Karey is one of the original design editors at Kirtsy.com, a frequent contributor to several Washington DC-area publications, and a freelance creative consultant, and writer at Mackin Ink.

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Neil Chase, Federated Media

Neil Chase is Senior Vice President for Editorial at Federated Media, where he works with more than 100 of the best independent publishers on the Web. He has worked as an editor and page designer at several newspapers and was Managing Editor at CBS MarketWatch, Continuous News Editor at The New York Times, and an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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Kelly Beall, Design Crush

Design Crush has been Kelly's love letter to the design community for the past three and a half years. She's a graphic designer by trade who doesn’t make or sell anything other than perception, but she's passionate about supporting those who do. Giving them a voice and spreading their names and talents far and wide is what she does best.

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Amy Turn Sharp, Doobleh Vay

Amy Turn Sharp is the wood queen of Little Alouette, an organic wooden toy shop she runs alongside her master carpenter husband, Joe. A mother of 3 from Columbus, Ohio, Amy tracks her life on doobleh-vay blog and at all times has at least 7 projects brewing.  She is a Kirtsy.com and a StoryBleed editor, and was named one of the 50 top Etsy Moms by Babble.com in 2010.

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Maggie Mason, Mighty Girl

Maggie Mason is an author, award-winning online publisher, co-founder of the Mighty Summit, and a Twitter power user. Her personal blog, Mighty Girl; was nominated for a SxSW Lifetime Achievement Weblog Award; she was named one of Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Influencers by Now Public, and a Top 50 Mommy Blogger by Babble.

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Chelsea Fuss, Frolic

Chelsea Fuss authors the popular daily lifestyle blog, Frolic! which was named as one of the top design blogs in the world by The London Times. As a prop stylist and floral designer, Chelsea is a regular contributor to Project Wedding and MyWedding.Com and hones her styling skills on photo shoots for catalogs and product lines. Chelsea lives in Portland.

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Liz Gumbinner, Cool Mom Picks

Liz Gumbinner is the co-publisher and editor-in-chief of Cool Mom Picks. The site has been named "the online arbiter of cool" by Parents Magazine, one of Real Simple's 3 favorite blogs for parents, and named in the 2010 Best of the Web by InStyle. She's also the author of the personal blog Mom-101.com and was included as one of Forbes' 14 women to follow on twitter.

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Danielle, The Jealous Curator 

The Jealous Curator has a BFA in Visual Arts, and a post-grad diploma in Interactive Design. She has worked as a designer and Creative Director for almost fifteen years, but has never stopped loving fine art. She may not have actual gallery walls, but thanks to her blog, The Jealous Curator, she has all of the white space any curator could ever want.

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Marta Dansie, Marta Writes

My favorite spot is on a road trip with a map on my lap, my husband at the wheel, and my little boy bouncing in the backseat. i am a stay-at-home mama and freelance graphic designer; i run a household and a small business under one roof. My design work specializes in book layout, custom invitations, and identity packages for businesses big and small.

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Victoria Hudgins, The City Cradle

Victoria is an event and photography stylist, and writer of The City Cradle. Victoria puts her signature handcrafted touch on the events and photo shoots she styles. She also is a writer for Project Wedding and a contributing author to Handmade Wedding (due out Spring 2011). She lives and designs in San Diego, CA with her husband and twin two year old children.

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Marisa Haedike, Creative Thursday

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Meg Keene, A Practical Wedding

Meg Keene blogs at A Practical Wedding & Reclaiming Wife. She has been quoted by CNN and Glamour Magazine, and her work has been cited by ReadyMade, NPR, and Feministing.com, among others. Recently, she contributed a sidebar to Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides. Meg attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and previously worked in New York in Off-Broadway theater management.

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Kirsten Grove, Simply Grove

Kirsten Grove has been an active Interior Decorator for 7 years and is founder of Simply Grove, a design and decor blog.  She has been featured in several prominent websites, and publications.  Kirsten also designs re-purposed and restyled furniture and accessories sold at Brass Razoo, a boutique in Idaho.  She now makes her home in Boise, Idaho with her husband and two children.

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Allison Bloom, Remodelista

Allison Bloom is the head of marketing and a contributing editor at Remodelista, a design sourcebook for all things interior.   Known for its consistently beautiful imagery and crisp voice, Remodelista was voted "Best Design Blog of the Year," in 2009.  Recent fans include Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow and the editorial staff at Elle Magazine. Allison lives and works in Mill Valley with her three children and husband.

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Emily Newman, Once Wed

Emily Newman, 25, launched Once Wed in March 2008 as the only free listing service for wedding dresses after selling her own wedding dress online. The site now offers brides everything from real weddings to modern DIY wedding projects. Her widely read blog is updated daily with real weddings, DIY projects, and much more. Emily currently resides in Atlanta, GA with her wonderful husband Brett.

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Susan Petersen, Freshly Picked

Mother of a 4 year old and a chubby redheaded baby named Gus, Susan and her family lives in the happy state of Utah.  Her hobbies include sewing, thrifting, and then blogging about all the sewing. She loves to share her tutorials and sewing tactics on her popular sewing blog, Freshly Picked. Several of her tutorials have been featured on blogs such as Apartment Therapy, Babble and Cafe Mom.

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Cambria Bold, Re-nest

Cambria Bold is the Managing Editor of Re-Nest, Apartment Therapy's green living and design site. She currently manages a team of 15 writers who blog daily. When she's not blogging, Cambria writes music and single-handedly keeps the Brooklyn food scene in business. In 2011 she's going to become a runner and stop killing her house plants. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

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Justin Hackworth, Justin Hackworth Photography

Justin Hackworth is a photographer working throughout the United States for a variety of wedding, portrait, and editorial clients. Each spring he works on a project called 30 Strangers to raise money for the local women's shelter. His work has appeared in national publications such as Photo District News, American Photo and Photographer's Forum. Justin lives in Provo, Utah, with his lovely wife and two boys.

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Danni Hong, Oh, hello friend

Danni started her blog & shop: oh, hello friend in July 2008. She studied graphic design and is a full time blogger and sells her jewelry on etsy and at craft shows. She is also a newly married lady as of September! She enjoys creating & designing, the rain, spending time with her husband, and traveling.

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Crystal Gentilello, Rue Magazine

Crystal Gentilello is the Cofounder and Editor in Chief of Rue Magazine, an online interiors and entertaining title with a fashion and lifestyle sensibility. A pioneer in digital publishing, Crystal stands at the forefront of change as the relationship between publishing and the design industry evolves. Her expertise in new media also extends to her blog Plush Palate. Crystal lives in San Francisco.

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Jaime Derringer, Design Milk

Jaime Derringer is founder and editor of the "Milk" network sites, which are dedicated to modern design. Her site, Design Milk, has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, Singapore Home & Decor magazine, and Real Simple magazine. Design Milk is one of the Google Engineers' Staff Picks and a Twitter influencer in Art & Design.



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Molly Petersen, DwellStudio

Molly Peterson is the online marketing and social media director for DwellStudio - the lifestyle brand that brings style and design home.  Molly works hand in hand with Founder Christiane Lemieux to produce The Studio Blog. Molly is a working mom who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her husband James, toddler Lucas and yellow lab Miles.

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Melissa Esplin,  I Still Love You

Melissa, a young mother of one (and one on the way) is a lover of all things crafty & creative. Her blog, I Still Love You (aka IS•LY, pronounced izlee) is about all of the things she likes makes time for; calligraphy, sewing, designing, bookbinding, painting, thrift shopping, decorating, etc. It's chock full of ideas, tutorials, printables & thrifty finds.

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Ryan Marshall, Pacing the Panic Room

Just before becoming a husband and father, Ryan decided to run from the regular 9-5 life, and become a photographer and story teller for a living. His blog Pacing the Panic Room was the home base for the story of the building of a family. He has worked on recent projects for The Gap, Redken, Pureology, Babytalk Magazine, Pregnancy Magazine, Crescer, and Fast Company.

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Suann, Simple Song    Hip Hip Hooray

Suann is living her dream and is the owner of SIMPLESONG Design, a boutique design and letterpress studio located in Old Town, Alexandria, just outside of Washington, DC.  She is also the editor of two blogs, SIMPLESONG (a daily creative/lifestyle blog) and Hip Hip Hooray! (all things for sweet, handmade kids' celebrations).  Suann lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son. 

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Melanie Blodgett, You Are My Fave

Melanie is the author of You Are My Fave, a lifestyle blog dedicated to The Awesome. When not penning her next post, she's either busy at work or planning a party of epic proportions. Melanie resides in Denver with her husband Ryan who was smitten by her when the first things that came out of her mouth were, "You look like David Duchovny."

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Joslyn Taylor, Simple Lovely

Joslyn's blog, Simple Lovely, has chronicled her love for design, fashion, art, the raising of two creative and interesting little girls. She also runs the corporate website for a large software company, acts as an editor at Kirtsy, and is a freelance writer contributing to local publications such as the Dallas edition of Edible Magazine, Dallas Child Magazine, and Thrive Magazine. 



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Allison Czarnecki, Petit Elefant

Allison (@petit_elefant) is the founder of Petit Elefant, a modern online parenting magazine. She is the co-founder of Social Luxe Lounge, a large-scale annual party for women bloggers. Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, NBC Chicago, and theUtah Daily Herald, among others. She’s a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Mom 2.0, Evo, and the ALT Design Summit.

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Sarah Bryden-Brown is VP content + community for babble, the fastest growing site for moms, which reaches 4m+ unique visitors each month and includes the much-loved style blog, Family Style. Sarah has spent 14 years in the media as a journalist, editor and author. In 2003 Sarah published her first book, The Lost Art of Childhood (Random House), followed in 2007 with Dad and Me (Harper Collins).

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 Caitlin Flemming,  Sacramento Street

Caitlin Flemming is the editor and founder behind the lifestyle blog Sacramento Street. On a day-to-day basis she shares what inspires her in interiors, fashion, travel, photography and anything that comes her way. Today, when she’s not writing her lifestyle blog, she’s traveling the world and streets of San Francisco for the latest design finds.

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Ben Silbermann, Pinterest

Ben is the co-founder of Pinterest, a service to catalog and share the things you love. Before starting Pinterest, Ben worked at Google designing display advertising products for AdSense. Ben grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and now lives in Palo Alto, CA.

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Alma Loveland, Ollibird

Alma Loveland is co-founder of Ollibird, a company that produces digital artwork. She literally wrote the book (or at least A book) on using Adobe Illustrator and teaches Illustrator-based online classes at nicolesclasses.com. Alma's designs have been produced in women's fashion, stationery, and online media. Among her greatest accomplishments is actually achieving the almost-mythical life-work balance, although she can't claim that her house is always tidy.



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Alexandra Tyler, Modern Kiddo

Alexandra (aka Alix) is a writer and Associate Creative Director at Goodby, Silverstein in San Francisco where she has worked on such brands as HP, Frito-Lay, Elizabeth Arden and Wrigley gum. She has worked with a random assortment of celebrities like Vera Wang, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg and Fergie. Alix is co-founder of ModernKiddo.com, a Website dedicated to all things kiddo—vintage, modern, and everything in between.

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Jess Chamberlain, Sunset Magazine

Jess Chamberlain is the market editor for Sunset magazine (and contributor for the HomeBySunset blog). She’s always on the hunt for innovative and thoughtfully-made products, inspiring homes and gardens, and creatives making the world a more beautiful place. Jess is most passionate about making sustainable choices the obvious ones and converting plastic-baggers into aspiring environmentalists. She also sometimes likes to pretend she’s a photographer. 

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Pam Kueber, Retro Renovation

Pam Kueber is the publisher of RetroRenovation.com, a daily blog that helps owners of mid-century homes to find period-appropriate products to complete their renovation projects. Pam has blogged daily for more than three years, and today her site attracts more than 100,000 unique visitors a month. Not nichey enough for you? Check out her micro-site, SaveThePinkBathrooms.com.

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Deb Averett, Fresh Nest Design

Deb is co-founder of Fresh Nest Design, an interior design blog focused on beautiful design with a DIY mentality.  Their goal is to inspire and teach readers to design their own space via mood boards, before & afters, tips & tricks, and tutorials.  Deb lives in the midwest with her husband, two boys and their boxer.

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Nicole Hill Gerulat, A Little Sussy

Nicole's obsessions for food and photography led to degrees from Brooks Institute of Photography and The French Culinary Institute. With clients in San Francisco and New York City, she stays busy shooting everything from cookbooks and interiors to lifestyle and children. Her work is found at NicolePhoto.com. Nicole’s crowning achievement is daughter Evie Marie, whom she and husband, Adam, welcomed into the world in November.

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Rachel Devine, Rachel Devine Photography

Rachel Devine is a commercial photographer who works in kid's fashion and media. Her work has been featured all sorts of places from Time Magazine to Target ads. She photo blogs and chronicles life as an American ex-pat mom of 3 little kids in Melbourne, Australia. As a film shooter, Rachel is adamant about getting her images right in camera.

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Laura Mayes, Blog con Queso

Laura Mayes is an Emmy-winning writer, and a co-founder of Kirtsy, the Mom 2.0 Summit, the Mighty Events. She has worked with Kirtsy to curate art exhibits and installations, run nationwide programs to educate women about social media, throw charitable and celebratory events across the country, and publish the book, Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Online Favorites.

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Leslie Dotson Van Every, Modernkiddo

Leslie Dotson Van Every is the director of public relations for the CBS Interactive’s Entertainment Division. She has more than 15 years of PR experience—with a focus on social media. She has worked with many brands through the years including Overstock.com, GameSpot.com, MP3.com, Mattel and TheWeddingChannel.com to name a few. She is also co-editor for ModernKiddo.com.



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Andy Kane, Sparka

Andy Kane, who hails from Boston, is a high school English teacher who lived in San Francisco and taught for a number of years in Oakland. He and his family recently moved to Portland, Oregon, in order to begin farming. He is a practicing artist who focuses on painting and printmaking. He originally taught himself the art of screenprinting and has worked as a screenprinter for about twelve years.

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Sarah Jane, Sarah Jane: Illustrating Childhood.

Sarah Jane is a children's book illustrator, fabric designer and founder of Sarah Jane Studios, a boutique stationery and print shop for children. She has published with Simon & Schuester, Harper Collins and is a designer with Michael Miller fabrics. Her ETSY shop is where her design life started, and she blogs about being an illustrator/designer/mother on her blog Sarah Jane: Illustrating Childhood. 

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Wendy + Tyler, Blue Lily Photo

Wendy and Tyler are the husband/wife team of photographers behind Blue Lily Photo.  Although based in Southern California, they spend most of their time traveling the country and world to take client's photos.  In 2010 they launched their World Tour which will grow to even more countries in 2011.  Wendy and Tyler homeschool their two children as they travel around together as a family of four. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, on Oprah, and other national magazines.

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Meg Mateo Llasco, Mateo Llasco