About Us

What is Sight Unseen?

Over the past two decades, Sight Unseen has established itself as the ultimate source for discovering talents and trends in design and the visual arts. As an online magazine and gallery spotlighting independent designers, and an incubator for those designers via curated exhibitions, Sight Unseen has been, as journalist Aileen Kwun wrote in the New York Times in 2022, both “arbiters and archivists of contemporary design … acting as a divining rod for the social media generation, for whom design has not been a niche interest, but an integral part of a hyper-visual, increasingly self-broadcast lifestyle.”

From 2014-2018, the editors behind Sight Unseen produced Sight Unseen Offsite, a highly curated design fair that ran during NYCxDesign and served as New York design week’s most exciting platform for new ideas and talents.

Sight Unseen also produces events, designs products, and provides editorial and consulting services for a variety of forward-thinking clients. These have included Heymat, Kasthall, West Elm, Sonos, Glossier, Moda Operandi, Hotel Tonight, Arper, Arlo Skye, Ford, Paypal, Everlane, COS, The Ace Hotel, Herman Miller, Shinola, Ikea, The Standard East Village Hotel, Lumens, Lightology, Lincoln, and more. You can view some of those projects here, or contact us if you’d like to add your company to our list of clients.

About the Editors

Since founding Sight Unseen in 2009, editors Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer have been pioneers and leaders in their field, raising the profile of design not only in their capacity as editors of the most influential design publication in America, but also as a powerhouse curatorial team, helping to launch and champion the careers of countless designers. They are also the co-authors of the acclaimed interior design book, How to Live With Objects (Clarkson Potter, 2022), which introduced their viewpoint to a wider audience and cemented their status as global authorities in design.

Khemsurov is also a contributing editor for T: The New York Times Style Magazine as well as the founder of the artistic hardware showroom Petra, while Singer’s writing has appeared in PIN-UP, Elle Decor, New York Magazine, T Magazine, W, GQ, and more.