Ep. 25 Design In The Visual Age with Royce Epstein A&D Design Director at Mohawk Group

<p><strong>About Royce Epstein:</strong></p><p>LinkedIn Profile: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/royceepstein">linkedin.com/in/royceepstein</a></p><p>Instagram: @madame_duchamp</p><p>Instagram: @dissent_by_design</p><p> </p><p><strong>About Mohawk Group:</strong></p><p>Website: <a href="http://www.mohawkgroup.com/">www.mohawkgroup.com</a></p><p>Instagram: @mohawkgroup</p><p>Data Tide: <a href="https://www.mohawkgroup.com/carpet/collections/data-tide">https://www.mohawkgroup.com/carpet/collections/data-tide</a></p><p>Relaxing Floors: <a href="https://www.mohawkgroup.com/carpet/collections/relaxing-floors">https://www.mohawkgroup.com/carpet/collections/relaxing-floors</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Royce Epstein Bio:</strong></p><p>A veteran materials and product specialist for interior design and architecture, Royce spent two decades working in A&D firms before working in product design and development. Specialties include: visioning, concepting, sourcing, design development, and marketing of materials, finishes, and products, in addition to interior design work focused on material palettes and FF&E. LEED AP. Trend hunter. Design strategist, writer, lecturer, teacher, juror, and thinker, always putting design in context. Interiors & Sources Designer of the Year 2015. Collab Board Member at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Textile instructor at Drexel University. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Show Intro:</strong></p><p>For 1000s of years we have painted on cave walls, carved statues, woven tapestries, molded clay and drawn and painted our human experience. Images have depicted the sacred and the profane. Images created by the hand of the artist are like making magic - from nothing, something. </p><p>And that ‘something’ tells a story. It tells the story of who we are as individuals and a part of a community, culture a collective with shared vision. </p><p>Creating is the truest expression of who we are because when we make art, we truly put ourselves into it. Our life energy changes a lump of clay into a teapot and blank c