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Welcome! Barbie 50th Anniversary CHAIRING STYLES PROJECT PLAYHOUSE
Welcome! Hi I’m Mark Griffin, welcome to my website!
Barbie 50th Anniversary As part of Barbie’s 50th anniversary celebration, Mark was selected by Mattel to create a one of a kind Barbie chair for a life size Barbie as part of the FIDM Fashion Debut 2009. See all the photos here
CHAIRING STYLES Cotton Incorporated’s Chairing Styles is a competition where the FIDM Textile, Fashion, and Interior Design Students collaborate to create new and innovative designs. Mark was the honored recipient of the First Place Prize with his custom designed suitcase chair called the Gypsy Traveler. See all the images here.
PROJECT PLAYHOUSE Mark was honored to have been selected to be one of the interior designers for the 18th annual Orange County HomeAid’s Project Playhouse fundraiser. His award winning design of a small child’s interior design studio took the titles “Most Imaginative”, “Online People’s Choice”, and “2nd Place grand Prize”. See all the pictures here.

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    Dec 09 Design School delayed reaction!
    Well hello all! OK, so it has taken me a while to chat up the finale of the show. To be honest I was a bit taken back by the fact that two very important episodes did not air and the finale arrived early. I had so many things in the works including a finale [...] Read More
    Nov 09 Real world design for the LAAC!
    What a fun episode this was! We had the opportunity to team up and compete for a real world project. Our client for this project was the historic Los Angeles Athletic Club. Our challenge was to design a concept for their downtown rooftop which at this point literally a blank canvas. This was a very [...] Read More
    Nov 01 3D Episode… Holy Hell!!!!
    OK, so even I can lose it when pushed! But, in this case it was MORE than warranted. If you tuned in this week you would have seen the absolutely crazy task that was at hand. We were given the project of designing a whole house (inside and out!) using the modern day software called [...] Read More