What’s All the Hub-Bub About The 2019 Design Influencers Conference? 

As we finalize our conference agenda for the 2019 conference which we will be announcing shortly, we are pleased to see that many designers, influencers, and brands have registered early for next year’s 2019 Design Influencers Conference.  As Event Organizers, we often ask “What drives attendees to register?” Here’s what they have to say……   Lisa Davenport, Interior…

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DBC Is The Design Influencers Conference

DBC The Design Influencers Conference

The Design Bloggers Conference, often referred to by its familiar DBC acronym, launched as a digital content marketing conference for the design industry in Los Angeles in 2011.  The event was created so design bloggers, the main online design influencers at the time, could meet up to enhance their personal brand building skills while participating…

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Attendee Profile: Barbara Karpf

In 2005 Barbara Karpf founded DecoratorsBest, an e-commerce website selling designer fabric and wallpapers at competitive, discount prices. Now with over two-hundred-thousand products and increasing daily, DecoratorsBest has established itself as a leader in the decorating community. The recently launched blog has increased DecoratorsBest’s visibility to the public, providing everything from Barbara’s designer tips to…

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Attendee Profile: Plum Pretty Sugar Loungerie

Blogging for Plum Pretty Sugar Loungerie is a little bit of “behind the scenes”… so much so we call the blog, { Between the Seams }. It is the inspirations, the aspirations, the sweet little things, and some of the big things that make this brand progress, move forward and essentially tick. The blog is…

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Attendee Profile: Regina Garay of Fauxology

Fauxology (www.Fauxology.com) explores the love affair between inspired Interior Design and extraordinary Decorative Painting.  I started the blog in June 2007 and although I wrote sporadically then, it’s going to be almost a year since I’ve started writing daily posts.  I simply adore decorative painting and finishing – which is good because my siblings and…

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Attendee Profile: Susan Jamieson of Bridget Beari Designs

I started blogging as away to document all the crazy things that happen to me, inspire me, and thrill me in this world of interior design. I started my first blog in July of 2007 to record a before and after kitchen makeover. From there it has evolved to include videos showcasing my travels and…

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Kimberly Grigg

My first exposure to blogging involved me politely corrected a conference speaker on his pronunciation of the Southern dish, “chicken bog”. He was speaking about BLOGS…  Mortified! However, in only one year, blogging has become my platform for promoting “green” design, gaining national recognition for my work…  On hgtv.com

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Fenella Pearson

I’m an interior designer and I have breast cancer. I started blogging because I wanted to help other women be less afraid. Jane Bryant Quinn, editor of a start-up hyperlocal news publication, read my blog and hired me as Home & Garden editor. Now I have a new career!

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How Blogging Has Changed My Life: Cheryl Draa

Rising from the dust of recovery to focus on the future this “steelworker” takes what was learned from the past and begins welding the future.   Blogging has provided me another outlet to my future, allowing me to merge past design experiences and knowledge into new forms of marketing and recognition.

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How Blogging Has Changed My Life: Sherry Hayslip

Blogging compels me to think carefully; to consider, weigh, and savor good design, good places, good people. There is joy in blogging… even Joseph Campbell’s elusive “bliss.”  Designing and writing about design are near the top of my “bliss list.”  To ponder the beautiful things around us, the meaning that beauty and creativity bring into each…

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