A product designer and creative director based in Austin, with 20 years of experience in the industry. Guiding concepting, finishes, color direction, and styling - taking ideas from initial sketch to market-ready product, while traveling to design fairs and factories for inspiration and prototyping. Valuing collaboration, hands-on development, and the rhythm of studio and travel work, now balanced with more time at home with family.
Before 10 years at Four Hands she spent five years in Anthropologie’s Home department after early career experience at Christie’s in New York. She holds a BA in Communication from Rutgers and came to design via a nontraditional path shaped by lifelong exposure to art and craft.
Nina Venice
Product Design & Development
Creative Direction
Our goal is a collaborative approach to forward-thinking furniture design.
We provide furniture and lighting design services. Guided by an experienced furniture designer, we partner with retailer and wholesale brands to creative distinctive collections. As well as provide Creative Direction services.
We believe collaboration is the heart of everything. We thrive in the back and forth, receiving honest feedback, reshaping ideas and watching a single thought grow into something unexpected and stronger through combined effort. We balance restraint with risk, follow curiosities, research and explore new materials and makers. We also promote transparency, sharing the lessons learned from working across manufacturers, wholesale and retail so the industry can improve craftsmanship and efficiency as well as creative outcomes and expanded vision.