Sight Unseen Turns Five!

When we first launched Sight Unseen — on this very day back in 2009 — we intended it to be an online magazine in which we would publish, a couple of times per week, long, meticulously reported stories about the lives, processes, and inspirations behind our favorite design and art objects. We still do just that, five years later. But we’re proud to say that we’ve also done so much more: We’ve become a place for creatives to scout new talents on a daily basis, we’ve become a linchpin for the blossoming American design scene, we’ve opened an online shop, we’ve published a book, and we’ve founded one of New York design week’s biggest offsite events. This year, we have plans to curate multiple pop-ups, to launch a long-overdue redesign of our site, to start a major retail collaboration with a visionary company, and to make our OFFSITE show even bigger and better.

But perhaps the greatest joy of our 5-year tenure has been the amazing and fruitful relationships we’ve formed with our peers — all of the people who create, love, photograph, and write about design every day right along with us. These people clearly feel the same about us, seeing as when we invited them to help us celebrate by making us a birthday card, we were overwhelmed by not only the quantity of responses but also by the thoughtfulness that went into each piece. Check out some of the wonderful people who responded below, and then see even more entries on our Facebook page!