Author: Photos by Sara Essex

Louisiana Made: Metal Winner

As far as daily commutes go, David Cano’s is hard to beat. It runs from the recently renovated second-floor loft apartment directly above his wife’s letterpress studio to just down the street at the expansive metal fabrication shop where, with…

Louisiana Made: Making Scents

There’s a deeply NOLA phenomenon that could be described as a kind of neon twilight. It happens when the last of a humid day’s sunset shines off a low-slung sky blanket hanging, it seems, just out of reach, and casts…

Louisiana Made: Turning Heads

A red Rolling Stones tongue taunts from a cotton tee as she moves swiftly through her efficient home studio in grey yoga pants, describing how she lit one of her hats on fire. “Oh, I have a torch,” she says…

Time is on Their Side

  Catch Reed and Riley Stephens on the wrong day and it would be easy to assume the Metairie-born, Mandeville-raised brothers have a comically severe loathing for watches. An objective onlooker would see them slamming timepieces into freezers, hitting them…

First Impressions

Leslie Graham and Ryan Howell master the art of letterpress in Alexandria

Jennings Apiaries

Ruston compnay creates honey and honeycomb products straight from the hive

Crossing His Tees

Baton Rouge designer Clint English creates iconic T-shirt designs for rock and roll royalty

Flour Power

New Orleans bread baker Graison Gill spreads the gospel of traditional bread-making

Beyond the Surface

The environment is the driving force behind Thibodaux woodworker David Bergeron’s work

Savoir ‘Fair’

Ruston woodworker Joshua Mitchell works to bring together creatives as well as the larger community

Fog Machine

Clinton-native’s etherial, minimal images evoke loneliness and strength

Wildthings

Baton Rouge butcher Jordan Ramirez spices things up with his first retail pepper sauce

In Stitches

New Orleans designer Sigourney Morrison has her colorful brand of cool all sewn up

Sound Design

Violin maker Anya Burgess connects classical and Cajun in her Arnaudville workshop