Natalie has been designing since she was a little girl. Starting with creating clothes for her Barbies’, color, pattern and fabrics have always been her passion. For the last 25 years she has been a CMF Product Manager developing colors, materials and finishes for leading office furniture companies like Herman Miller. As a PM, she gained invaluable knowledge regarding the manufacturing of yarns and fabrics as well as color selection according to market, color matching, and design trends. This knowledge helps to inform her work in surface pattern design. Natalie is influenced by patterns in nature as well as vintage design and architecture, and her work is geared towards interiors, apparel and paper products. She has sold her work at trade shows such as Surtex and Printsource in New York. She recently opened an Etsy shop selling floral stickers as a side project. Her other interests include gardening, painting, knitting, sewing, and being outdoors. She lives in Michigan with her husband and cat.