Designers come together to launch TAKD Design

Three designers from various backgrounds have come together to launch their own design firm, TAKD Design.

Colin Tury, Sean Kilgore and Salvatore Asaro have spent the last year making everything from wooden bow ties to shipping-container architecture.

"We were always intrigued about this multi-dimensional design focus," Asaro says.

The Sterling Heights-based company helped design the shipping-container offices proposed for the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative’s offices in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. They are also creating a number of unusual consumer products from wood, such as bottle openers and bow ties.

"We just launched the website store for that," Asaro says. "It's been pretty successful."

TAKD Design is run virtually from each of the co-founder's homes in the suburbs. However, the trio would like to open their own office in Detroit next year.

"We love everything that is going on down there," Asaro says.

Source: Salvatore Asaro, co-founder & principal of TAKD Design
Writer: Jon Zemke

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