Suzanne Tick is the founder of Suzanne Tick Inc. specializing in materials, brand strategy and design development for commercial and residential interiors. She is known for her intelligent and enthusiastic approach to design in evolving markets, as well as her conviction to provide innovative solutions. Suzanne has maintained a distinguished career as a textile designer, studio principal and consultant in New York City. She is currently a Design Consultant for Tarkett, she serves as Creative Director at Luum and Design Partner with Skyline Design. In addition to her work in the industry, Suzanne maintains a hand weaving practice and creates woven sculptures from repurposed materials harking back to her childhood where she was raised working at the family scrap metal yard. Her work has been exhibited in MoMA, Cooper Hewitt, MAD and Art Basel, as well as collected by private and corporate clients. Suzanne’s TedXNavesink Talk: “Weaving Trash into Treasure” presents her unique and personal approach to hand weaving. As Creative Director at Luum, Suzanne is developing a new textile business model, developing textiles for seating and vertical applications with a nod towards sustainability and well-being. Some of Suzanne’s latest award-winning work for Luum includes the 2020 HiP Award winning and Best of Year 2020 finalist Mutable Matter Collection, as well as Green Good Design Award 2020 winner for her Title Shift textile made from post-industrial and post-consumer cotton. In February 2021, Luum’s first biodegradable, post-consumer recycled polyester textile, Grid State, will be available to the market. In 2020, Suzanne launched the Light Shift Collection for Tarkett. A Best of Year 2020 finalist, the collection of soft surface and coordinating LVT borrows inspiration from the properties of light, evoking the senses and making us aware that everything is a part of the unified field. In 2021, Suzanne will debut Obscura™, her fourth collection for Skyline Design. A new material and sizing concept, the Obscura™ system is an elegant, design-driven non-PVC polyester film created for privacy in incremental dimensions. Obscura™ provides minimal and specific coverage and satisfies building codes that increasingly require glass with markings, particularly in corporate and healthcare environments. In 2013, Suzanne was honored with the IIDA Titan Award, given in recognition of significant contributions to the Interior Design profession. Her passions include a scholarly study and practice of Vedic meditation with Thom Knoles and The Soft Road, travel, gardening, cooking and being a mom to her beautiful adult son, Gabe and two cats Cupid and Psyche. Tick Studio maintains a daily afternoon meditation practice together.