Business
Want inspiration for building a design-driven business with sustainable values and rethinking single use daily habits that seem so, well, normal until you realize they’ve only been common for the last 50 to 100 years? Then you’re going to be all ears for this week’s guest on the Spirit of 608 podcast, Danish designer and Last Object co-founder Isabel Aagaard. Even at the helm of a fast-growing company (look out for their retail presence in U.S. Anthropologie stores soon) with a baby in a global pandemic, Isabel exudes chillpreneur (credit to Denise DT for the term) vibes, even though you’ll hear her say in our conversation that she’s not one to shy away from long hours and relentless attention to her business. Speaking of businesses, this isn’t her first. Listen to the episode for why that’s important (and also an office joke), as well as how this Copenhagen startup debuted its crowd-funding campaign with an email list 40K strong and has spent the last two years adding products like reusable face pads and tissues to its debut cotton swab alternative.