Category: Miscellaneous
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Hand Making Ceramics in the USA, The Medium is still the Message
I was raised in a ceramic business in the home, which was different from its surroundings, making me and my siblings outsiders in the classroom environment. When school closed and summer commenced, an alternate reality emerged, a world in which my family’s art was sought after by a wide range of humanity. I felt welcomed…
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Industrial Design, Now and Then: The Andersen Design Journey
Reinventing the online platform as an interactive B2B experience! In my last post, I wrote about an article that I came upon about a revival in cottage industries, Cottage Industry Revival: A Modern Twist on Contemporary Crafts. This is a story that I could have written about a cultural framework fitting my vision for Andersen Design…
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What Difference A Curve Makes
The Large Salad Bowl with the two tones of blue leaves has been around for a long time. All the while. I thought it was a beautiful decoration done on a bowl that had warped in the casting. Recently, when photographing the bowls together, I realized I was wrong. The reason I thought the bowl was…
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My Marketing Journal
Purchase Andersen Ceramics on the Andersen Studio Online Art Gallery! How to Simplify Complexity! What started out as a marketing project, inspired by this Medium article, Nobody Told Me Pinterest Could Make Me Money — Until I Found This Strategy I began several months ago, but before I could do that, I needed to structure…
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Hello world!
This is the website of Mackenzie Andersen, written in the interest of preserving the cultural legacy of Andersen Design established by my parents in 1952 on Southport Island, Maine. My Dad created two company identities Andersen Design which is the wholesale entity and Andersen Studio which is the retail gallery. Dad advised that if I…