BRANDS
The brands we’ve interviewed.
Founders we’ve featured, in the order we met them.
001 Buddy Design
Buddy is a wellness brand making products for everyday rituals and small daily improvements.
002 Double Oak Essentials
Double Oak Essentials makes thoughtfully designed everyday goods rooted in craft, intentionality, and quiet utility.
003 Domkapa
A Portuguese upholstery house blending haute-couture stitching with modern comfort.
004 Tallow
Canadian, family-founded natural stone homeware brand.
005 SIES
Design-focused home brewing gear brand bringing "simplicity in every sip" to both tea and coffee.
006 ATUR
Modular desk organizer system designed around flexibility, clean function, and the changing nature of modern workspaces.
007 NoNormal
Coffee Built for the Outdoors. Moka Pot intensity in a packable tube.
008 Nell USA
Traditional Japanese craftsmanship and innovative sleep technology come together in this one-of-a-kind mattress.
009 Habity
Scandinavian functionality meets nostalgic design for a mindful lifestyle.
010 Charles Simon
A Montreal luxury brand, founded in 2014 by two engineers, that handcrafts timeless, engineering-driven watch and travel accessories in Canada.
011 Evergoods
A Bozeman, Montana brand making durable "crossover" backpacks and bags that blend technical outdoor performance with everyday style.
012 Trafford Watch Co.
A watch microbrand making thoughtfully designed, story-driven timepieces meant to celebrate life's memorable moments, released in limited seasonal drops.
013 xBloom
A specialty coffee brand making all-in-one machines that grind, dose, and brew barista-quality pour-over coffee at home.
014 nedrelow
A small studio-made brand crafting minimalist merino wool felt accessories—sleeves, cases, and everyday-carry gear—for iPads, MacBooks, and Apple devices.
015 good cuppa
An Australian design brand making minimalist all-glass to-go and dine-in coffee cups—no plastic or metal—built to preserve flavor and add a touch of ritual to specialty coffee.
016 WAK
Studio Won and Kim (WAK) is an industrial design studio creating minimalist furniture, lighting, and product designs—shelving, coat stands, chairs, cabinets—alongside occasional branding work.
017 Ombraz
Ombraz makes armless sunglasses that replace sidearms with a built-in adjustable cord, making them comfortable, secure, packable, and harder to break, backed by a lifetime warranty and tied to mangrove restoration.
018 Dezctop
Dezctop designs modular standing desks and workspace systems with built-in cable management, giving people more control over how they work, create, and organize their space.
019 REMSEN
REMSEN is a Brooklyn design brand founded by Spencer Fried and Sam, rethinking the objects of aging with considered pieces like a premium pill container and a sculptural grab bar.
020 Goofball
Goofball is a Los Angeles design studio founded by Ryan Lew, making character-driven objects for everyday living, from the internally counterbalanced Bolb Lamp to clocks designed, prototyped, and fabricated in-house.
021 Odysii Design
Odysii Design is Quin Philipp's furniture studio designing for disconnection, pairing sculptural hand-finished plaster forms with warm integrated lighting and hand-turned wooden dimming knobs.
022 BOROUX
BOROUX is a family-run water filter company led by second-generation CEO Parker Emerson, making simple gravity-fed water filter systems that filter 80+ contaminants using verified safe materials.
023 Datum
Datum is an Austrian coffee startup by Nikolaus Potapow and Christoph Konheisner, rethinking the espresso machine as an ultra-compact connected system with an integrated tamper, a redefined portafilter, and an open recipe platform.
024 CW&T
CW&T is the two-person art and design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy, creating forever tools like Time Since Launch, a clock that counts a million days, and the clip-free Herring Blade.
025 LIV Swiss Watches
LIV Swiss Watches is a Miami-based, direct-to-consumer watch brand founded by Chaz and Esti Chazanow in 2014, making bold, Swiss-made timepieces assembled by hand in Switzerland and sold without the retail markup.
026 Bodega Design
Bodega Design is a Costa Rican furniture studio led by Alonso Herrera and Ann Alfaro, producing colorful, locally made metal pieces like the modular DOT storage system and bringing a Latin American design voice to the international stage.
027 Rhythm
Harrison Lin, founder of Rhythm, on building the Light Machine: hardware and software that help you get the light you need to feel good.
028 Makers Cabinet
Makers Cabinet is a London design studio making heirloom drawing and writing tools in brass and wood, from the Høvel pencil plane and Ferrule pencil extender to the Iris compass and the Blank forever notebook.
029 Tuneshine
Tuneshine is Tobias Butler's Oakland company making a square, wood-backed LED display that shows the album art of whatever you're listening to, built around a single focus: music.
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