December 2011
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“You just have to get out of the way.”
– Eva Zeisel, when asked, in 2007, on how to design something beautiful. Eva Zeisel died December 30th, 2011, at age 105.
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WatchMe, with a bad mic, talking about what gets on Fab.com.
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“I never realized how much “Slave To The Rhythm” sounds like a...”
– Brian Babst
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Curate My E-commerce →
Bradford Shellhammer, 35
Fab.com Chief Creative Officer, New York Best benefit of online retail? The possibilities are endless. You can easily and effectively present a $1 toy next to a $3,000 sofa online. In a store, that does not make much sense. How has social commerce helped Fab? We’d be a much smaller company if our fans could not share via Twitter and Facebook. More than 50 percent...
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“It’s an odd color combo, but it works. It’s atypical, and the...”
– Bradford Shellhammer - Wall Street Journal
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Interviewing Milton Glaser
Meeting design legend Milton Glaser was one of those classic moments that can only happen in New York City. I was having lunch with Alan Heller—the man behind the furniture manufacturing company Heller Inc.—when he scribbled Milton Glaser’s number on a napkin, insisting I meet him. I called Milton the next day, and in turn, he invited me to his studio on East 32nd Street in Manhattan. I...
Yo!
We sent may Fab.com users yo-yos for holiday gifts. It’s been so much fun watching all the Tweets with photos of the yo-yos. The world needs more yo-yos.
On pivots, evolution, and having a life-changing...
When Jason Goldberg and I decided to restart our business, a decision the tech press and many a Tweet continue to call a pivot (we prefer the term restart), we did not think twice. We turned off the old site, said goodbye to some employees, and never looked back. In hindsight, it was a bold move. It was also an easy decision.
Over a series of dinners and bottles of wine we hatched a plan to...
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“I swear men are more like women these days.”
– Jesse Cozart