Trendland recently joined Ketel One Vodka in the Lower East Side’s Projective Space, lovingly toasting the best craftsmen of today in celebration of the vodka brand’s Modern Craft Project. The new initiative seeks to find and nurture top craft brands from around the world. Representing the best in modern design, the current initiates are

Erik Bjerkesjo is a new design talent engaged to traditional craftsmanship.  Originated from Stockholm, he mastered in advanced footwear design at Polimoda. Bjerkesjo’s works consists of men’s shoes and menswear collections, with a common denominator great attention to detail. Fine leather, precise threads and  characteristic almond-shaped soles is the signature of his footwear collection.  Managing [...]

Straddling the line between craft and art, Adi Zaffran Weisler, a designer and graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, enters the debate between craft and art with his series RAWtation. Fusing the industrial process of rotational molding with the use of raw and un-hewn wood, Zaffran encases these organic foundations in a [...]

Discovered from our Submit Page, Crafted UK is a British organization, funded by the American Express Foundation who aims to foster a sense of entrepreneurialism and commercialism amongst craft businesses and give them a set of unique opportunities that will help them grow and develop their businesses.

London College of Fashion graduate student , Sarah Williams MA project untitled “Crafted Fashion” is a beautifully crafted and inventively designed luggage collection. “Historically exceptional craftsmanship was the norm now it is the exception.”

The BDDW showroom in SoHo carries unique hand crafted furniture. Qualities such as focus on material, close attention to detail and a clean design have propelled designer and sculptor Tyler Hays to the forefront of his field.