The quilter, who grew up in rural Wisconsin, recommends her favorite winter essentials. Wisconsin-raised and now Brooklyn-based Emily Fischer, founder and designer of Haptic Lab, who describes her ...

Through her design studio, Haptic Lab, Emily Fischer seeks to bring about transparency, simplicity, sustainability and consciousness in the way products are created and designed. The Unbound ...

New York-based architect and designer Emily Fischer began her exploration into quilted maps in 2002 as a part of an academic project in “tactile wayfinding”. The pieces were inspired by her mother, ...

What happened to quilts? Industrialization rendered their production time inefficient; the heterogenization of the work force left women, the chief producers of the coverings, with little time or ...