• Graduated school for design
• Started an interior blog
• Interned at a design Firm

2014

It didn't just happen overnight, it started with a burnt out designer and a dream for a time when things would be easy. Here's our journey...

The Timeline

Through the years

Timeline 01

Opened Beyond Basic Brands and broke a 6-figure launch

2022

Hired Star to handle our exploding business

Mentored our first 3 graphic designers

Hit our first million during a global pandemic

2020

Had my Business epiphany 

Simone joined the team!

Started my first women led Mastermind

We hired our first intern, Anne

Spoke at Showit United

2018 — 2019

Spoke at Create & Cultivate

Hit my 40th client milestone

2016

Quit my 8-6 job

Branched out and started working as a design assistant

Created City Faire Studio

Gained my first big name client



2015

Graduated school for design

Started an interior blog


Interned at a design Firm

Realized my calling was design

2012

It didn't just happen overnight, it started with a burnt out designer and a dream for a time when things would be easy. Here's our journey...

Through the years...

Timeline 02

2015

Human-centered, mass incarceration B-corp; sustainable social enterprise; green space disrupt natural resources circular unprecedented challenge. Innovation grit a big data empower. Families, design thinking white paper; social intrapreneurship design thinking when blended value. Resilient initiative grit, society humanitarian problem-solvers; outcomes, movements agile.

Northfolk was founded in our 600 sq. ft. apartment in Northern Seattle.

2016

Human-centered, mass incarceration B-corp; sustainable social enterprise; green space disrupt natural resources circular unprecedented challenge. Innovation grit a big data empower. Families, design thinking white paper; social intrapreneurship design thinking when blended value. Resilient initiative grit, society humanitarian problem-solvers; outcomes, movements agile.

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2017

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do.

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2018

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do.

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2019

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do.

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2020

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do.

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2021

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do.

Use this space to write one (or many!) milestones you achieved this year. 

2022

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do.

Use this space to write one (or many!) milestones you achieved this year. 

Timeline 03