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Meet our Moderator

Here at UncommonGoods, we love getting customer feedback, hearing your stories and helping you find products you love. My name is Cassie, and as your Community Moderator, it’s my job to answer your...

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Morsels of Wisdom from our Design Panel

Earlier this week we hosted How to Make It: How to Make Money While Doing What You Love, a panel of design professionals who shared their experiences with local Brooklyn artists. We asked them each to...

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The Judges, the Lunch and the Winner!

 Last week the judges of the Summer Picnic Design Challenge met at Eat in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to discuss the top five voted designs and decide on a winner. Around the table were Candace, the tabletop...

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Inside the Designer’s Studio with Claudia Pearson

When the second floor of Claudia Pearson’s Brooklyn brownstone opened up, she knew it would be the perfect place to set up a studio. Claudia was using a corner of her family’s apartment to create...

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How To Make It: Scaling Up Your Creative Business

On August 28th we will host our third How To Make It design panel & happy hour at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO. We will welcome panelists Jenny Krauss of SAFEFA, Jesse James and Gus Anangopolous of...

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Inside the Designer’s Studio with Emily Rothschild

Studio tours have opened up so many new views into the lives and creative minds of our artists. In visiting with Emily Rothschild last month, I learned that her jewelry line was only the tip of the...

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How To Make It: Scaling Up Event Videos

Last month we hosted our 4th How To Make It panel event and networking happy hour in Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 guests showed up to powerHouse Arena to hear our panelists, Rachel Rheingold of Maptote,...

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How To Make It: Implementing Green Practices in Your Designs

We are excited to host our 4th How To Make It event on October 29, Implementing Green Practices in Your Designs, a topic we hold very close to our heart. Our panel will be weighing in on sourcing...

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UncommonGoods Crew Braves Sandy

This morning the UncommonGoods staff reunited after a long weekend battling Hurricane Sandy in New York City. We shared our stories of terror, adventure and community. Here are some of our stories. Our...

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Inside the Artist’s Studio at Twig Terrariums

It only took a short subway ride to get from UncommonGoods headquarters to the Twig Terrariums studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn, but when I got there I was surprised at how far away I felt. I stepped into a...

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How To Make It: Collaborating and Building Your Network | Videos

Earlier this month we hosted another design panel and happy hour for designers in Brooklyn. The topic of conversation was learning how to work well with other artist in a collaborative community, a...

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Inside the Artist’s Studio with Brooklyn Slate Co

Days before I made it to the Red Hook work space of Sean Tice and Kristy Hadeka, they were putting the finishing touches on Brooklyn Slate Co’s new home, a space that took a hard beating during...

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El Anatsui: All That Glitters Isn’t Gold

Like most Americans, I’m pretty unaware of artists who aren’t American or European. Embarrassing but true: interpreting the art of very different cultures takes work, and I tend to approach art (as I...

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Celebrate Cycling for National Bike Month

Since May is National Bike Month, and today is is Bike to Work Day, we’re celebrating by sharing some stats about how our team gets our bike on. In NYC, biking to and from work is among one of the...

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Inside the Artists’ Studio with Kasia and Nick of Collected Edition

Living in New York City you learn very quickly not to judge a book by it’s cover – every door hides a secret in this city. Upon walking up to Kasia Wisniewski and Nicholas Foley’s building I had no...

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How To Make It: Designing Your Website | Design Panel + Happy Hour

Designing a webpage from scratch can be daunting! There are so many design decisions to be made to properly showcase your handmade designs. On Tuesday October 1, meet UncommonGoods Associate Art...

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Inside the Artist’s Studio with Robert Blinn, Carl Collins, Peter Knocke &...

Some designers have a creative studio, some have a company work space, but for this Studio Tour I rode my bike to the apartment of Carl Collins, the gathering-space of GothamSmith. It was early on a...

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Inside the Artist’s Studio with Meghan Ellie Smith

Clutter Castle is what Meghan calls her eccentric home studio, tucked away in the streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn. When I saw the odd, yet beautiful, string installation hanging from the ceiling, a...

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A Journey Through the UncommonGoods Warehouse

So many boxes are coming and going through our warehouse right now – from Inbound where products arrive from our artists and vendors, to Outbound where your orders are carefully assembled and packaged...

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How To Make It: Instagram and Your Creative Business Videos

On March 25 we invited Ronen Glimer of Artists & Fleas, Ronda J Smith of In the Seam, and local members of our design community to a panel discussion about using Instagram to market your designs...

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