Meet the Contributors
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Contributors
Erin Loechner
Peggy Wong
Miriam Bradford
Emily Ho
Doreen Ciesla
Adam Lowe Martin
Cynthia DeGrace
Erin launched her award-winning blog DesignForMankind.com in 2007 as a catalog for the overflowing inspiration found while researching design day and night. Her work has been featured in Glamour, Dwell, Lucky, Nylon and ReadyMade magazine, where she regularly blogs. A former AOL editor, Erin currently hosts a weekly column on HGTV.com tracking the progress of her home renovation entitled “The House that DFM Built”.
An award-winning designer and former Deputy Art Director for Martha Stewart in New York, Peggy launched her own design studio bluepoolroad in 2009. Over a decade of experience with some of the world’s most recognized brands, she has traversed the nuances of typography and art direction with fluency. From Victoria's Secret Beauty to Target, Peggy brings a highly refined sensibility with the credentials to back it up. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (with the Chair’s award for excellence in graphic design), she was also a faculty member at the Art Institute of California. Shortly after bluepoolroad's launch, Peggy was handpicked from hundreds as one of the three artists to represent Crane & Co.'s new STUDIO collection. She is now a member of Crane's stationery design team and her letterpress line is available exclusively through Crane & Co. A bluepoolroad rug collection is also in the works and will debut Fall 2010. Peggy continues to art direct photo shoots and design for clients in areas of branding, packaging, print, and web. Peggy's photography can be found on her bluepoolroad blog and her visual journal, snaps.
Miriam is a stay-at-home mom interested in home décor, sustainable living and creative expression; the latter of which she indulges in as many art forms as possible. She runs her own small business, LimoncelloSTYLE, LLC, designing and producing custom invitations and announcements. Miriam was an early generation contributor to Weddingbee.com under the handle Mrs. Corn and her personal blog, Other Pieces of Me, has been featured on the Martha Stewart show. She also moderates a board for women-owned creative businesses. Miriam lives in Boston with her husband, Davis, their one-year-old son, Garrison, and a kitty named J.P..
Emily Ho is a writer, editor, and independent information professional with a background in art history, publishing, and librarianship. Life and work have taken her from Texas to the East Coast to England to the West Coast, and today she lives in a beautiful 1920s apartment in Los Angeles with her partner Gregory and their cats Eames and Eero. Passionate about food and nature, she can usually be found cooking, eating, hiking, looking for ways to live green, and blogging about all of the above at MissChiffonade.com and other sites.
Adam is a freelance writer living in Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in English literature and earned his law degree from Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law. Adam writes on a wide range of subjects, from politics to family histories to sustainable design. He is also a yoga instructor, and just noticed that he is the only man blogging for FLOR.
Doreen is a freelance writer with an extensive background in developing advertising copy for such companies as Target, Ulta, Walgreens and OfficeMax. She has an eye for good form, an appreciation of quiet beauty and a bit of humor cultivated by Second City Training. Doreen currently writes for FLOR and lives in an historic suburb outside of Chicago with her husband and 5 year old son.
Cynthia DeGrace has dedicated the majority of her professional career working for some of the leading Interior Architecture firms in the country Kohn Pedersen Fox Interior Architects, The Hillier Group, Perkins and Will., helping business’ increase productivity, efficiency and redefine culture, through the design of their environments. She believes the same fundamental principles apply to the environments which define our personal lives. Whether living alone, or with the community of family, every choice, from the smallest to the most significant, is an opportunity to make a conscious design decision. The spaces we inhabit, and the extension of our footprint, have a direct relationship to our happiness, energy, productivity and creativity.
