Good design doesn’t happen over email. You can’t understand wool until you’ve felt it raw, spun, and washed. You can’t design a rug without seeing how tension shifts on a loom, how each pass of the yarn forms a pattern, how fibers tighten in water. These aren’t details you learn from a spec sheet. They’re decisions made in real time, shaped by the materials, the process, and the people behind them.

Design isn’t about choosing—it’s about knowing. And as a designer you don’t really know a material, a process, or a supply chain until you’ve spent time inside it. This is an invitation to see how I work, to rethink what it means to source responsibly, and to understand why thoughtful collaboration leads to better, more meaningful design.

Mark Krebs was founded in 2019 by Montreal based designer Davin Cowper