For West Elm.
Photography by Seth Smoot. Styling by Kendra Smoot.
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Summer Bedroom Checklist
Concept and art direction for West Elm.
Videography by Zack Taylor. Styling by Marie Sullivan.
Cozy Guest Room
For West Elm.
Photography by Arturo Cubria. Styling by John Dittrick. Soft Styling by Eduardo Vinuënza.
How To Organize Your Closet
Concept and art direction for West Elm.
Videography by Zack Taylor. Styling by Ashley Cheeks.
Postmodern Apartment
Art direction and set design for West Elm.
Photography by Ryan Liebe. Styling by Rebecca Bartoshesky.
Are You Faux Real?
A game for Instagram and YouTube that highlights West Elm’s faux-botanicals assortment—plants you can’t kill!
Concept and art direction for West Elm
Photography by Landon Vonderschmidt.
How To Make Hot Chocolate
Concept, art direction, set design, and writing for West Elm.
Videography by Zack Taylor. Styling by Marie Sullivan. Food Styling by Jason Schreiber.
Originally published on Front + Main as “How To Make Hot Chocolate, From Scratch”
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It’s a good thing that beach season is months away, because if there is one thing that makes this time of year tolerable, it’s huge mugs of piping-hot melted chocolate, milk, and whipped cream. We’re talking, of course, about the obligatory beverage of any wintertime night in: hot chocolate. While your hot chocolate ritual might entail a box of factory-sealed envelopes containing micro-portions of chocolate-flavored powder (it has a time and a place and we don’t judge), we’re here to tell you that an über-rich, molten hot chocolate made from scratch takes almost the same amount of time and effort to make. Get out a bar of chocolate and put on some sweatpants—let’s make hot chocolate!