Shark mode: two potters are putting their youthful experience in the ceramic industry to good use by offering not only their own functional tableware lines, but also complete production services.(Pottery Production Practices)
Ceramic Industry, 20090129 by Hayes, Brian
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Brett Binford and Chris Lyon are not your typical 26-year-olds. They don't exist as mere numbers in Corporate America, chipping away at school loans and passing their free time with video games or trips to the local watering hole. As founder and president, respectively, of Portland, Ore.-based Mudshark Studios LLC, Binford and Lyon are putting their youthful experience in the ceramic industry to good use by offering not only their own functional tableware lines, but also complete production services--including customization--for manufacturing clients. The pair hopes this diverse approach will pay dividends in the future, hut for now it means work--a lot of work.
"We live in the studio," Binford says of the demands made by a...
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