Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs

Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs is a beautiful two-color book that features candid conversations with 30 leading designers who have founded startups, channeled personal passions into self-made careers and taken risks to do what they love. In this book they share their failures, successes, and perspectives. Our hope is that you can learn from them-not to follow in their footsteps-but to chart your own course in parallel, one that allows you to thrive, add value to the world and love what you do.

Tim Hoover Tim Hoover is the Head of Product and Design at Canary, a startup making the world's first home security device for everyone. He co-authored Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs, co-founded The People's Pennant, and is a former partner at The Infantree. Previously, he worked at Shake Law, Betaworks, and IDEO solving human problems with design-led solutions. He received his MFA in design from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and now lives in Brooklyn where he spends his free time throwing pottery, reading, and thinking about the Amish.
Jessica Karle Jessica Karle is the Head of Digital Design at Everlane, an apparel brand that makes the most beautiful essentials, at the best factories, without traditional markups. She co-authored Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs, co-founded The People's Pennant, and previously led design teams at Paperless Post and General Assembly. She loves to collaborate on projects that are beautiful and meaningful as well as those that shape experiences and build communities. She received her MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and now lives in San Francisco where she spends her free time woodworking, exploring the coast, and thinking about furniture design.