Karin Bohne
Interior Designer, Karin Bohne, is a tree-hugger at heart and natural-born entrepreneur. She’s been working in the design industry since 2004 and has dabbled in a wide range of design disciplines including custom furniture design, residential design, green design, hospitality design and even a television stint in 2007, appearing as a designer on season II of HGTV’s Design Interns.
In 2009, Karin partnered up with Brett Turner to launch Moeski. Moeski (pronounced mo-ESKI) is a full service design, concept and consulting firm that specializes in creating marketable and profitable projects within the hospitality industry. Together at Moeski the duo focus on putting restaurant projects together from start to finish, paying careful attention to the driving factors of a profitable project while embracing the main vision and goals of their clients.
The 6 questions:
1) What’s the one piece of technology that you can’t live without?
The Apple Time Capsule in our office! I love it because all our computers are linked up to it, it’s where we store all our files and it automatically backs everything up. It also makes it super easy to access anything I need from the office remotely or if I’m working from home. It’s completely simplified the way we share files at the office and I would be lost without it.
2) What is your favourite online resource?
Google Analytics! Does that count? It’s amazing because you can completely track who’s visiting your site, where they’re located, what pages they viewed, or what key search words they used to find you. I find it fascinating. I check it every day and I’m completely hooked!
I’m also a fan of blog sites like urbandiner.ca <http://urbandiner.ca> and scoutmagazine.ca <http://scoutmagazine.ca> . They keep me plugged into the local hospitality scene and all the juicy news I need to keep track of!
3) How many e-mails do you get in a day?
It depends on the day. If we’re in the middle of a project or juggling a few at a time I can get up to about 30 emails. But on quieter days it can be as few as about 10.
4) Tomorrow there is no internet. What do you do?
I would load up on new canvases and paints and hit the studio, one of my favorite hobbies and creative outlets that I don’t nearly spend enough time doing.
5) Are you followed or are you a follower?
Ahhhhg, sounds like a Twitter question! I’ve resisted signing up for a Twitter account until this past weekend when a marketing guru and good buddy convinced me that I HAVE TO DO IT. Hence my newly created account: @moeskidesign. Ask me in about a month and I’ll have a better answer!
Outside of cyber space though and in real life, authenticity has always been important to me. What matters to me is that I’m having fun, whether I follow or am being followed.
6) What’s your favorite magazine?
Other than REACH of course? I have so many, I’m a total sucker for good interior design magazines like Living Etc., inDesign, DHD, the Canadian Interior Design, Dwell, Objeckt, Elle Decor, the list goes on. I also love mainstream fashion magazines, InStyle being one of my favs.
*5 Questions was created by James Wallace from This Is a Collective (http://thisisacollective.com/).
