Our Authors
Read inspiring pieces by our top authors. Ranging from thought leaders to interior designers, our contributors share unique perspectives on topics like design, sustainability, biophilia and more.
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Interface
Interface, Inc. is a global commercial flooring company with an integrated collection of carpet tiles and resilient flooring, including luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and nora® rubber flooring. Our modular system helps customers create beautiful interior…
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Gayle Smallwood
As Content Marketing Manager for Interface, Gayle Smallwood can tell you everything about carpet tile and LVT. She writes and edits copy across print and digital, manages the photography database and usage rights and keeps up an archive of materials…
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Liz Minne
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Katie O'Neill
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Ashton Brasher
Ashton Brasher is a Communications Manager on the Interface Global Communications team. She is responsible for crafting effective strategies and compelling content, ensuring important company announcements reach the right people at the right time.…
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Natalie Makowski
Natalie is Product Design Manager, EMEA at Interface. She has a degree in Textile Design For Fashion & Interiors BSC. Natalie has 12 years at Interface as a Product Designer and was awarded Lord Barnby Award for Most Promising Person Employed in…
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Mikhail Davis
Mikhail Davis is Director of Technical Sustainability at Interface. He is responsible for advancing Interface’s globally recognized Mission Zero and Climate Take Back commitments in the Americas by building internal leadership capacity and…
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Chip DeGrace
Chip DeGrace is the creative force behind the Interface and FLOR brands,vserving as the corporate design conscience. As Chief Design Officer, Chip integrates the global teams responsible for brand design, product design and application design. He…
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Sean O'Keefe
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Jean Nayar
Jean Nayar is a journalist and author who writes about predominantly about architecture, design, art, and people. A member of the Author’s Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Nayar regularly contributes to various lifestyle…
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Erin Meezan
Erin Meezan, Interface's Chief Sustainability Officer, leads a global team that provides technical assistance and support to the company’s global business, addressing sustainability at all levels –from operations and management, to employees and…
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Lisa Conway
Lisa Conway serves as VP of Sustainability, Americas for Interface – the global flooring manufacturer that is leading industry to love the world. She and her team are responsible for regional activation of the company’s mission: Climate Take…
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Bonnie Casamassima
Bonnie Casamassima, LEED BD+C, MFA, is an Interior Design consultant, educator and researcher with expertise in and a passion for Biophilic design. She is the Founder of Interweave People Place and an Adjunct Professor of Interior Design at SCAD.…
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Lauren White
Lauren is the Sr. Digital Marketing Manager at Interface. She has spent most of her career working with companies in the commercial interiors industry. Lauren was named a Rising Star at the 2017 Social Shake-Up, presented by PR News and Social Media…
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Dan Hendrix
Daniel is the President and CEO of Interface, Inc. and Chairman of the Board. He joined the Company in 1983 after having worked previously for a national accounting firm. He was promoted to Treasurer of the Company in 1984, Chief Financial Officer…
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Carolyn Ames Noble
Carolyn Ames Noble is the founder of Ames Design Collective, specializing in research, WELL consultancy, interior design and product development. Carolyn has a passion for the role of materials in design and consults for product lines in acoustics,…
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Sonya Lehner
Sonya is a Content Strategist who has spent her career building brands for digital businesses. She has a passion for creating good content, and combines her writing background with experience in design and consumer goods.
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Gretchen Wagner
Gretchen is a Designer based in Atlanta that works closely with Interface’s creative team, product styling and trend forecasting. Prior to working at Interface, Gretchen pursued a BFA in Fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design in…
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Paula Meason
Paula is currently the Marketing Strategy Lead for Healthcare and Education for Interface Americas. In her 20+ year career, Paula has proved a resourceful and versatile marketing professional with a demonstrated track record of achievement in…
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Mindy O'Gara
With a passion for design and learning, Mindy O’Gara blends both of these talents into her daily role as Director of Product and Learning Experience at Interface. After achieving a Bachelor of Interior Design and working as a commercial interior…
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Kate Shepherd
As an independent brand consultant with over 20 years’ experience in design trend forecasting, Kate regularly collaborates with the Interface marketing, design and product development teams to spark ideas and inspire creative thinking. Fuelled…
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Jennifer Bobbitt
As Marketing Director at Davis Wince, Ltd., Jennifer brings over 25 years of service and product marketing experience. Jennifer is responsible for all of our corporate branding, marketing proposals, public relations, email marketing and website…
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Jamie Shackleton
Jamie joined Interface in July 2017 after graduating from Leeds Arts University with a degree in Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design. Her role as Product Designer sees her conducting trend research to identify key colors, patterns and…
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Shelley Strickland
Shelley is a marketing and communications consultant who often writes about the commercial interiors industry. Inspired by all things clever and creative, she combines her 20+ years’ writing experience with a passion for design and product…
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Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading…
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Donna Dent
Donna joined Interface in September 2016 having previously worked in Office Design and Space Planning, with a degree in Textile Design from Huddersfield University. Donna finds inspiration from many areas including design, painting, textiles and…
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Kerry Weig
Kerry Weig is a licensed architect and project manager at INVISION focused on the education industry.
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Merlyn Mathew
Merlyn is an architect and urban policy practitioner, pursuing a master’s degree in Sustainability Management at Columbia University, New York. Her team, Soil Sink, was the winner of Drawdown: Innovate, a student-led competition organized by Net…
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Jay Gould
Jay Gould is the former President and CEO of Interface, Inc., only the third CEO in the company’s history.
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Jon Khoo
Jon Khoo is a Regional Sustainability Manager at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Jon specialises in the commercialisation of Interface’s sustainability initiatives and response to the current…
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Nirmal Kishnani
Dr Nirmal Kishnani is an Associate Professor at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. He is the force behind several platforms on sustainable design in Asia. FuturArc magazine, where he is editor-in-chief, is a…
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Oliver Heath
As a leading figure in biophilic design, Oliver is working with global modular flooring manufacturer Interface to raise the awareness of the benefits of design inspired by nature. A prominent thinker in the architecture industry and owner of Heath…
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Sky Factory
Sky Factory is a pioneer in the design of multisensory illusions of nature. The company’s unique design framework (Open Sky Image Technology) has been the subject of peer reviewed research (Health Environments Research & Design Journal) that…
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Mandy Leeming
A skilled designer with over 25 years’ industry experience, Mandy heads up a team of five designers that develop new products for Interface EMEA. Mandy has been part of the Interface design team since the late 1980s, when the first UK design…
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Christine Needles
Christine is Interface's Senior Director of Global Communications and Public Relations.
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Julian Treasure
Julian is a sound and communication expert. He travels the world training people to listen better and create healthier sound. He is author of the books How to be Heard and Sound Business.
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Amanda Sturgeon
Amanda Sturgeon, FAIA is the CEO of the International Living Future Institute. She joined the Institute in 2010 following a fifteen-year career as an award-winning architect. Amanda was named as one of the top ten most powerful women in…
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Lorraine Francis
Lorraine Francis, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a Regional Director of Hospitality Interiors at Gensler. An award-winning author and Hospitality leader, Lorraine works with major brands and boutique clients to deliver a large breadth of architectural and…
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David Gerson
David Gerson is the Vice President of Marketing for Inscape, an innovative, commercial interiors manufacturing company. In that capacity, he and his team are responsible for curating the physical and digital brand experience across numerous mediums…
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Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor, Project Director at Peldon Rose. Workplace interior specialists, Peldon Rose, are based in London. Their aim is to transform office design for the benefit of people and business. To find out more about Peldon Rose and their work,…
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David Navarrete
David A. Navarrete is the Research Initiatives & Content Development Director at Sky Factory. David manages the company’s research partnerships with leading hospitals, public and private health organizations, and researchers interested in…
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Darran Anderson
Darran Anderson is the author of ‘Imaginary Cities’ (Influx Press) and the forthcoming book on space and memory, ‘Tidewrack’ (Vintage/FSG). He writes primarily on the intersection of architecture with technology, politics, games and culture.…
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Giles Hutchins
Giles Hutchins is a visionary speaker, writer and adviser who goes one step beyond conventional sustainable business. Formerly a management consultant with KPMG, more recently Global Director of Sustainability for Atos, co-founder of Biomimicry for…
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Sarah Pelham
Sarah is part of the Interface creative team for its hospitality business. With years of interior design background in the Southcentral and Southeast US, Sarah has a knack for creating relevant vibrant designs. At our design studio in LaGrange, she…
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Elizabeth Davis
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Catie Ryan
Catie is a Sr. Project Manager at Terrapin Bright Green, where she has co-authored “The Economics of Biophilia” (2012), “14 Patterns of Biophilic Design” (2014), and a peer reviewed article in the ArchNet International Journal of…
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Joe Clancy
Joe Clancy is a Project Landscape Architect for Bradley Murphy Design Ltd and emerging expert on biophilic design. He is the co-author of Terrapin Bright Green’s 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design: Improving Health and Well-Being in the Built…
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Scott Colman
Scott Colman, Creative Director of Blue Jelly. Creative and practical, Scott is responsible for what colleagues refer to as the ‘fluffier’ side of the business. bluejelly.net
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Dr. Stephen Kellert
Dr. Stephen R. Kellert (1943-2016) was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University. His work focused on understanding the connection between nature and humanity with a particular interest in the human need for nature, and sustainable design and…
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Skye Witherspoon
Skye Witherspoon is the CEO of Sky Factory, a fine art and digital technology company, creates biophilic illusions of nature™, virtual skylights and windows, that create a palpable feeling of expansion in enclosed interiors.
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Bill Witherspoon
Bill Witherspoon is the founder of The Sky Factory, a fine art and digital technology company that creates biophilic illusions of nature. Bill’s training as an artist and his experience as a serial entrepreneur built the Sky Factory into an…
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Kimberly Miller
Kimberly is an interior designer with GPD Group, which provides architecture, engineering, planning and construction services to public and private sector clients throughout Ohio and across the United States.
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Dr. Eva Selhub
Dr. Eva Selhub is an internationally recognized expert, physician, author, speaker and consultant in the fields of stress, resilience, mind-body medicine and working with the natural environment to achieve maximum health and wellbeing. Dr. Eva, as…
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Helena van Vliet
Helena van Vliet AIA is a Biophilic Architect, Researcher & Speaker on Health and the Built Environment. She is Principal in charge at Helena van Vliet LLC. www.helenavanvliet.com Born and raised in Germany Helena holds an undergraduate…
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Marnix Van de Veen
Marnix is responsible for Internal Communications and Copy for Interface EMEA. When he’s not working you can find Marnix on a tennis court or shooting pictures.
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Steve Nygren
Steve Nygren is the President and Founder of Serenbe, a wellness community created as a model to demonstrate that preserving 70% of green space interlaced with agriculture, housing and retail is not only economically viable but the future of…
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Sir Cary Cooper
Cary is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on well‐being and stress at work and is the media’s first choice for comment on workplace issues. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, The…