About Us
Curlworks is a trans & queer run artistic collaboration between designer husbands Olly G. and Keaton V.H. Founded in 2015, we design original goods out of our studio in the Q.arma Building located in the Northeast Arts District of Minneapolis, MN. Our roots are in handcrafted bespoke work, and we've been having fun expanding our scope to product design & sharing our work in our online shop.
We have a fondness for funny animals, beautiful nature, and activism 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Olly Gibbs
CO-FOUNDER, DESIGNER
Olly is a professionally trained artist & designer with a BFA in Graphic Design. This is his full-time situation, and he does pretty much all of the day-to-day stuff. He’s the guy always yapping on Instagram (hi!)
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Keaton Van't Hull
CO-FOUNDER, DESIGNER
Keaton is a professional full-time product designer with a BFA in Industrial Design. He frequently contributes artwork and assists with product design when he isn’t working his fancy big-wig regular design job.
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Tyska
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Tyska is an artist and seamster based on the East Coast. They assist us with producton on the side when they aren't running their brand Tail Ends!
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Cody
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Cody is a talented full-time artist based in the Midwest. They help with production of our plush critters.
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Pillowhead Merch
FULFILLMENT
Our hardworking friends at Pillowhead Merch in Gainesville, Florida pack and ship all of our shop and wholesale orders so we can actually make things again. WHEW!
What we care about:
Unique, thoughtfully designed and sourced goods (that we selfishly want to exist so we can have them for ourselves.)
Supporting and advocating for our Queer and Trans community.
Spreading joy with our weird stuff.
Treating our lovely, beautiful, supportive customers and clients with kindness and respect.
Collaborating and connecting with our very cool and hot artist friends.
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See what we’ve been up to:
