design

Discovering Design: Meet Epare

IHA spoke with Eugene Khayman, president of New York-based Epare, a young specialty manufacturer of kitchen accessories and lifestyle goods with a focus on functional design. Epare will exhibit alongside other design-focused companies at the 2017 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. Attracted to entrepreneurship at a young age, Eugene Khayman began…

Discovering Design: Meet Sophistiplate

IHA chatted with Daniel Seehoff, CEO and Gary Seehoff, Chairman and co-founders of Sophistiplate, a fresh new company that offers sophisticated disposable paper tableware products for home entertaining. Sophistiplate will exhibit at the 2017 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design alongside other designs and trend leaders. In 2016, Sophistiplate was founded…

Making Old New Again

Isn’t it remarkable how the past is always with us? How objects, textures and things that were part of that past still surround us, but rather than haunt, they offer a feeling of comfort, security and warmth. Not many of us live in homes or apartments with exposed walls of aged bricks, nor do we walk on floors covered with ancient timber, yet when we enter a shop or café or bar…

Coloring Carefully

Henrik Peter Reisby Nielsen on using color on website Henrik is the CEO and Founder of CleverBinder, a productivity service that connects retailers and their customers via truly innovative software solutions. He also owns ReisbyConsult, a consulting company for retailers on design, color palattes, innovation and new technology. “It takes a lot of effort, knowledge and…

What’s Influencing Design and Technology for the Home in 2017?

In this article, we take an exclusive look at one of four trends forecast for Spring-Summer 2017. Recently revealed at the International Home + Housewares Show during our Home and Interior Design Trends 2017 presentation, we share Activate. Activate takes influence from the rise of smart technology assisting our everyday routines. This trend highlights how these changes in…

From the World of Design And Fashion

For any company, branding is what everything else hinges upon. And as a CEO, founder or director of a business, to become a true success story, you have to personify that brand and literally become a part of what it conveys to the world. In an ideal scenario, the creator is the brand—their very essence is personified in everything about which the company produces, promotes, and…

PANTONE®VIEW home + interiors 2017

Color/Design at a Crossroads: Finding the Most Directional Trends With the consumer's constant desire to see something new continuing to influence color/design trends, the question becomes what path will best drive success and consumer or client satisfaction? As color choices are so closely tied to personal expression, the answer is in developing the ability to better assess…

Design Debut: Meet Fellow

Design Debut brings the very latest new products to the Show. The 11 entrepreneurs lining the east wall of Discover Design come from the dynamic start up culture and often establish their companies with Kickstarter support. For example, coffee-lover Jake Miller launched the Duo Coffee Brewer on Kickstarter in 2013. A former brand manager at Caribou Coffee, he started…

Design Debut: Meet IntoConcrete

Design Debut brings the very latest new products to the Show. The 11 young companies invited to exhibit include successful entrepreneurs applying new technologies to new product categories and designers who experiment with traditional materials in fresh ways. Concrete products can be beautiful, innovative and sustainable. “Concrete is chic in the modern design capitals of…