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The most compelling creative practices today rarely fit neatly into a single category. They move between interiors and architecture, media and storytelling, product and hospitality—finding new ways to express a distinct point of view.
At the Design Summit, Sarah Weichel, Andre Herrero, Jake Arnold, and Brigette Romanek will consider what it means to build this kind of multidimensional creative career.
As the founder of Swike, Sarah is reimagining how design and lifestyle stories are created, distributed, and experienced. Her perspective combines creative instinct with digital expertise, including her former role as head of digital at Anonymous Content.
Andre moves between architecture, interiors, art, fashion, and technology as co-founder of Charlap Hyman & Herrero. From private residences to commercial and retail spaces, the firm’s work reflects a fascination with the relationship between history and contemporary life.
Jake has extended his warm, deeply personal approach to interiors through The Expert, publishing, product collaborations, and hospitality. Across these ventures, his underlying belief remains consistent: Good design should support the way people actually want to live.
Since founding Romanek Design Studio, Brigette has built a multidisciplinary practice spanning residential, hospitality, commercial, and product design, as well as creative consulting and brand storytelling. Her work begins with feeling, resulting in spaces that are polished but never precious.
Together, the four represent different models for what a contemporary creative practice can become. At the Design Summit, they’ll explore how a distinct point of view can move across mediums, how to recognize the right opportunities for growth, and how an evolving practice can retain the ideas that made it singular in the first place.
