The Maker

“I haven’t seen anyone making letters the way we do,” Erin says.

“I don’t just pick a bunch of boards, slap them together, and call it a cutting board. I want each one to be uniquely beautiful.”

“It’s a continuously changing design. I look at it like four-dimensional art. You have the three-dimensional space, and it changes with time.”

Great on paper.

Find the missing piece to your growing Indiana pride collection.

The Bloomington professor uses Scandinavian moose leather to make unique baby booties worn by Saint West and Sweden’s Prince Oscar.

“Some kids don’t thrive in traditional classrooms, but in this environment, where they can be creative and interactive, they realize skills they didn’t know they had, like designing products and ideas.”

Rowland, an artist, and Chinami, a weaver of yardage for kimonos and Japanese sashes called obi, color their cloth with indigo they grow on their Bloomington farm. Their vibrant works earned them a Martha Stewart American Made award in 2014.

“There’s just something about the act of recording. You hold it, and it’s your handwriting. It’s more personal. It’s interactive. And it becomes something you want to keep.”