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Iacoli & McAllister is the Seattle based design studio formed by Jamie Iacoli and Brian McAllister. We pay special attention to details and the typographic quality of proportions while maintaining a high level of craftsmanship. Incorporating industrial processes, all of our studio pieces are handmade in our Seattle studio.
Our process is one part exploration, one part learning curve, one part affection, one part sheer strife, and one part caffeine. We also really like to travel and sleep.
Our work has recently been featured in The New York Times, the NYT Style Magazine, Bon Appetit, LINDA (The Netherlands), Seattle Magazine, and online on Core77, designboom, Apartment Therapy and DailyCandy. -
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Coming soon...
We have some collaborations up our sleeves with artist/felter Ashley Helvey of Danken and with artist Justine Ashbee.
Making things with other people makes us really happy. -
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Charlie Schuck took most of our product shots. We are thrilled to be working with him.
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WE BELIEVE:
This is simultaneously the most difficult and the best thing we've ever set out to accomplish.
We compliment each other, most of the time.
Convention is boring.
Therapy and a cigarette will cure most anything.
Being a weekday vegan rules.
Eight weeks of vacation a year is a good place to start.
The truth always happens.
In all likelihood, you are a lovely human.
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WE GET INSPIRED BY:
Industrial processes.
Thunderstorms.
Other people's mixed cd's.
Having a table saw 20 ft from our desk.
The sun.
Sandblasting and powder coating everything
Fresh powder.
Collaborative projects.
Dreams of the desert.
Bike rides.
Color
Working with local vendors.
The way things smell.
Figuring this all out.
You. -
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OTHER STUFF WE LIKE:
Wooden crates.
Art Basel | Design Miami.
New Materials.
The Pacific Northwest.
Our friends' bands.
Soba noodles and tofu.
Bourbon.
Doing trades for art.
Sleeping in.
Our studiomates.
Finding time to cook.
Boundry Bay IPA.
The New Yorker.
Down comforters.
Walking to work.