Trine has about eight split leaf philodendrons around the studio that hang out with “random leftover” materials when not making their way into photo shoots. In terms of his design process, Trine typically doesn’t sketch or do dimensions. “I just kind of have a scrap and then I put it together. Now, because I know my manufacturer so well and I have an assistant who has an industrial design degree and can draw things on the computer, I can actually just have an idea and he can draw it. But my mind doesn’t work that way. And I’ll shut down an idea pretty quickly if I don’t think we can make it at an affordable price. The idea of the market and commercial viability comes in really early in the design process for me.”