Tag Archives: CCA

Under the Radar: Jenny Hacker

Charcoal and Silver

By Regina Connell. It was designer Steven Miller—no slouch in the taste department—who first showed me the work of Jenny Hacker, a San Francisco-based textile artist. It was a blanket—black on black—with two different textiles fused together, one side organic cotton and the … Continue reading →

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Regina Connell
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Profile: Donald Fortescue

A year. That’s how long it took to finally meet Donald Fortescue: artist, designer and teacher. But then again, he was never exactly off my radar during that year. Lawrence LaBianca, (who had first mentioned him to me) would,  from time … Continue reading →

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Regina Connell
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Profile: Liz Dunning

Dunning Desk Details

Liz Dunning is a DesignCrafter on the rise: a woodworker with a fabulous eye, a meticulous technique, and a wide-open, optimistic, humble, can-do, enthusiastic, bubbly energy that’s utterly infectious. Spending time with Liz in her studio (at Alameda Point) or … Continue reading →

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Regina Connell
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Profile: Christopher Loomis

We love finding and interviewing Bay Area DesignCrafters but let’s be real: we adore seeing the amazing, completely random, and unexpected places in which people work. In the brief life of our blog, we’ve been to renovated stores and factories, workshops … Continue reading →

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Regina Connell
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