Coatings World - May 2012

Emerging Designers

At the 2012 HUE Awards Benjamin Moore shone the spotlight not only on veteran architects and interior designers but also on a new crop of emerging professionals. The company, with the help of House Beautiful magazine, identified three talented up-and-comers whose work has demonstrated they may be the next generation of HUE title-holders.

The three “Emerging Designers” each received a $1,500 cash prize and included Timothy Brown, Jon Call and Jill Goldberg. Both Brown and Call have practices in New York City; Goldberg is based in Boston.

Timothy Brown has accrued a decade of experience working on commercial and residential projects throughout the U.S. and overseas. He now heads his namesake New York City interior design studio, which is all of three years old. Brown favors a “clean, modern, edited” style, yet there’s palpable warmth to his spaces that’s undoubtedly instilled by his Southern (Tennessee) roots.

Jon Call’s business, launched in 2010,
is Mr. Call Designs. Call began his New
York City career with Diamond Baratta
(a past Benjamin Moore HUE Lifetime
Achievement honoree), and his mission
is to reinterpret the Modern American
interior. Just last year, he was the con-
sulting creative director for HGTV’s
“High Low Project.”
Classic design foundations, with a
mix of traditional, modern and vintage,
define the style Jill Goldberg brings to
her design projects. She founded Hudson
Interior Design, her own firm in 2010
following the successful launch four
years earlier of HUDSON, a home fur-
nishings and gift boutique in Boston’s
South End.

“The HUE Awards have become a well-established platform for Benjamin Moore to honor the North American design community, and especially to recognize those who are color evangelists and whose body of work reflects it,” said John Turner, Benjamin Moore’s director of architect and designer segments. “Now it’s time to keep an eye on the future stars whose work shows the potential and promise of being HUE-

worthy in the coming years. So, we are proud to add to this celebration and acknowledge these three impressive breakthroughs.”

About the HUE 2012 Judges
As it has in the past, Benjamin Moore
enlisted a panel of renowned and re-
spected leaders in the fields of design,
fashion and industry to serve as HUE
judges. This year’s jury included: Paul
Goldberger, architecture critic for The
New Yorker; Tim Murray, former cre-
ative director, TARGET Creative Vision
Group; Hans Neubert, executive cre-
ative director, frog; Linda O’Keeffe, de-
sign author and former creative director
Metropolitan Home magazine; and,
Gary Panter, artist, graphic designer and
set designer for the original “Pee-wee’s
Playhouse.” CW