Garbage of Eden Design

• Tell me a bit about yourself

My name is Stephanie and I live in Brooklyn, NY. I grew up in a small town in CT where I spent quite a bit of time running around the woods and working at a little farm down the street from my parents’ house. These days I love wandering around this city on my bike. I have a teeny apt that I share with the love of my life. ; ) One day we’ll get a slightly bigger apt so we can have a dog!

• What is the name of your Shop?

Garbage of Eden Design

• Please describe your creative process

This is my favorite way to create: on my day off I clean up all my half done projects from my last day off, then I bust out all my NEW doodles and proceed to fill up my house with even more fun projects. Then I try to clean it all up before falling asleep. But that doesn’t usually work out, leaving more half done projects for next week.

• Where do your ideas come from?

Where do your ideas come from? All kinds of things inspire me and I tend to go through phases. : ) Lately I’m very inspired by textile design, weaving, fibber arts, the work of Buckminster Fuller, Alexander Calder, Maira Kalman, Lena Corwin and many more artists and designers… Tough to say where my ideas come from… hmm… I think from the fact that I love taking things apart and finding new ways to put them back together.

• How did you get into your craft?

I moved to NJ for a couple months…lol….so one less than exciting afternoon, I was bopping around the house thinking about making stuff out of recycled materials. I peeked under the sink at the stash of plastic bags and thought “what pretty colors, there must be something fun I can make out of this”…

• Apart from creating things, what do you do?

Lately whenever I have a free evening I try out new recipes for yummy homemade breads. Homemade bread is so satisfying. : ) I have a couple recipes up on my blog: www.garbageofedendesign.blogspot.com. A lot of my friends are musicians so I go see a lot of music shows, especially electronic music. I work a few days a week at an antique shop in my neighbourhood and I fill up the rest of my week with other gigs related to design and sustainability. At the moment I’m working in a sustainable fashion showroom called the Four Hundred. My favorite part of working there is the awesome sustainable fabric library! I’m a big geek about all the cool sustainable fabrics that keep coming out, like Milkofil, it’s made from milk proteins!

• How do you promote your work?

Word of mouth, Flickr, Myspace, blogging, Etsy

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