Episodes

  • Wedded to Design

    Wedded to Design
    Mar 17 2021
    It is often said that a successful marriage takes work. So what happens when your work life and home life are totally entwined? Married principals of three high-powered design firms—Katie and Jason Maine of Maine Design, Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller of Carrier & Co., and Christine and John Gachot of Gachot Studios—talk about the joys and challenges of balancing creativity with domesticity, how they cope with difficult collaborations and artistic disputes, and what it’s like to be married when design is your language of love.

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  • Strategies for Coping with Shortages, Delays, and Disasters

    Strategies for Coping with Shortages, Delays, and Disasters
    Jan 6 2021
    The design business has proved surprisingly resilient and buoyant over the past year, but once again, the Coronavirus is surging. How can designers contend with continued supply-chain shutdowns and delays, shortages of materials, manufacturing disruptions, and the pandemic’s effects on colleagues, artisans, craftsmen, and installers? As the pandemic grinds on, designers Barrie Benson, Peti Lau, and Benjamin Dhong weigh in on the strategies they have used to keep their clients happy, their staffs motivated, and business booming.

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  • Does Online Marketing Really Work?

    Does Online Marketing Really Work?
    Nov 18 2020
    In the crowded field of interior design, how do you get your work seen, and how do potential new clients discover you? Social media can certainly be effective. But that doesn’t mean that other tools—websites, blogs, and especially email marketing—don’t still have power. Marie Burgos, Kati Curtis, and Kevin Isbell, three designers with rising profiles, reveal the marketing efforts that work for them, how they balance creativity with salesmanship, and how their firms handle the increased workload required to stay in the forefront.

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  • What's Ahead for Design in DC?

    What's Ahead for Design in DC?
    Nov 4 2020
    In Washington, D.C., politics rules, and the political scene is more partisan than ever. Can design cross the aisle? What is it like to be a designer in DC, and how ready for change is this city with such a historically traditional aesthetic? Two DC-based designers, Kiyonda Powell and Marika Meyer, weigh in on what it is like to bring high style to a city where politics is ubiquitous, how a new generation is reshaping the town, and why the Washington design scene is busier than ever before.

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