Each of us is a maker.
Whether you’re making connections, curating your style or physically making products, we all need that place to express our creativity. NextFab proudly helps support small, local handmade businesses by providing a shared community of professional resources, tools and support to go from making to selling, and from selling to thriving.
In this year’s Gift Guide, we aimed to provide a roadmap for everyone’s creative aesthetic or intention to shop for even those that have “everything.” Each product you purchase not only supports the local maker community, but provides an avenue to connect your motivations in a new and unique way. “Feel Empowered” to encourage gifts with meaning. “Elevate your Aesthetic” to expand on current trends. Modernize your home through a maker’s craftsmanship, instead of the latest tech. Don’t take yourself too seriously, and be “Playful yet Practical” with the space in your apartment. Stay “Sustainable and Stylish” by providing a positive impact on our people and our planet.
It is our pride to be able to connect you with some of our favorite designers for the holidays, all while fostering what matters most this holiday season—our communities, our local businesses and the creative makers that make it so wonderful.
“At NextFab, we believe in local artisan entrepreneurs and our team dedicates itself to helping more people to make things for themselves—and to feel empowered, to create new art, new products and new businesses. With the opening of our new North Philadelphia space last year, we will be able to do that at an unprecedented level.”
—Evan Malone, President, NextFab
This year’s Gift Guide showcases the talent of over 40 of our makers working out of the NextFab makerspaces, both who are already successful, as well as many budding artisan entrepreneurs. Showcasing their creativity and craftsmanship that provides a little something for everyone, we’re thrilled to introduce another year of NextFab members, small business artisans and professional creatives in the 2021 Gift Guide. From our community to yours, happy holidays and even happier shopping!
Feeling Empowered
Nudeworks
Ayla Knight
Ayla Knight Nudeworks is an art shop filled with works modeled after the women of nudegang. The works sold by nudeworks aims to help all women feel better about their bodies and change society’s view on them, and includes custom sculptures, wall hangers, earrings and photographic prints.
$12-$200
@_nudeworks
Saint Manifest
Didier Garcia
Saint Manifest’s artwork seeks to destigmatize sex and instead celebrate it as the physical expression of love and connection. With self-love comes freedom, and with freedom comes peace. Wanting us all to live a life full of joy, pleasure and self-actualization, Garcia hopes their artwork can inspire you to be true to yourself.
$1.50-$100
@saint.manifest
Modest
Transitions
Melanie Hasan
Modest Transitions
aims to empower women through conscious clothing, beauty and inclusion. From sourcing fabrics with integrity, to creating baths of natural dyes—their products help eliminate toxic waste, while creating timeless, aesthetically pleasing wearable art to help embrace your natural self.
$35-$500
@modesttransitions
Asata Maisé
Asata Beeks
Asata Maisé Beeks is an independent designer based in Wilmington, Delaware. The designer is an advocate for preserving tradition through storytelling with handmade, slow fashion, and currently offers limited quantities of accessories, such as handbags and jewelry.
$50-$400 • @asata.maise • asatamaise.com
Historical Dream
Nina Grier
Historical Dream is a small women’s owned online business that specializes in reawakening and paying tribute to society’s pioneers across the cultural spectrum, portrayed with jewelry, apparel, upholstery items and more.
$75-$570 • @historicaldream • historicaldream.com
Kpellé Designs
Gwen Barker
Kpellé Designs makes handmade jewelry and accessories, which include earcuffs, loc jewelry for hair and head scarves. Powered by their mission to create jewelry for women to feel inspired, empowered and educated on the power of embellishing themselves in culture.
$10-$48 • @kpelle.designs • kpelledesigns.com
Seven21 apparel
Neiko Wiggins
721 stands for 7 days a week 21 hours of grind,
3 hours of sleep, in unique and creative apparel.
If you’re passionate about making and creating a brand that the world will never forget, Seven21 Apparel is the foundation for your brand.
$10-$100 • @721apparel_ • Seven21apparel.com
Yemisi art
Yemisi Ajayi
Yemisi art designs and produces hand printed and hand dyed fabrics for exquisite women’s clothing, home furnishing and every woman’s essential accessories—silk scarfs, T-shirts and bags.
$20-$500 • @yemisi_art
Greyteeful
Nicole V. Stewart
GreyTeeful offers a variety of print services for apparel and other promotional items via vinyl graphics, direct to garment (DTG), embroidery, patches image transfers (HTV), screenprint, graphic design, logo development/edits and more.
$10+ • @greyteeful • greyteeful.com
Modern & Homey
Untitled_Co
Cody Hughes
Untitled_Co is a home goods and furniture design studio based out of Philadelphia. With a mindful approach, they create heirloom-quality goods with an emphasis on traditional craftsmanship and sustainable design.
$10-$220
@untitled_co_
Eric Zippe
Fine Art
Eric Zippe
Wilmington-based artist Eric Zippe Art crafts photographs transferred on to wood, laser engraved art and fine art prints.
From $5 to $500
@ezippe
Rosewood Home
Corey Kilbane
Every room in your home should bring you peace and joy. Rosewood Home’s mission is to help you make those spaces special through inspired products and decor for your home.
From $10 to $100
@rwh_decor
COVR
Damon Harvey
COVR products are appealing, decorative solutions that cover, enclose and disguise unattractive gas meters, electric meters, pylons and other utilitarian hardware to enhance the visual and curb appeal for homes and businesses.
$50-$450 • @covrproducts • covrproducts.com
EMAengrave
Ron Fierro
Engrave My Achievement creates uniquely shaped laser-cut and engraved imagery from your favorite photos. Their Engrave My Animal line focuses on pets, even working pet’s name into the unique shape.
$50+ • @ema.engrave • emaengrave.com
Loma Living
Ken Holiday
Loma Living creates home goods that look beautiful and solve real problems for their customers. Offering solutions for most rooms in the home including home office, kitchen, bedroom and living room.
$12-$175 • @loma_living • lomaliving.com
Pandemic Design Studio
David Rozek
Pandemic Design Studio is a design and manufacturing enterprise that specializes in organic and contemporary ceramics, lighting and furniture.
$40-$400
@pandemicdesignstudio
ABI Woodworking
Edward Rose
ABI Woodworking crafts decorative 3D relief wood carvings for home and business, featuring plaques for desk, shelf and wall with standard or custom quotes and images.
$25-$300+
@ABIWoodworking
decorativewoodcarvings.com
Maria
Schneider Arte
Maria Schneider
Artist Maria Schneider crafts compositional hand-colored photography and laser-engraved images on plexiglass to adorn your spaces.
$300+
@mariarschneider
Good Measure
Ross Stoops
Handcrafted furniture and home goods focused on helping promote and encourage the talents of local makers, while bridging the gap between consumers and designers. Specializing in handcrafted furniture and home goods, they also offer custom residential and commercial fabrication throughout the tri-state area.
$30-$500
@thegoodmeasure
thegoodmeasure.com
Pellegrino Cutlery
Steve Pellegrino
Pellegrino Cutlery designs and builds high performance tools for the kitchen and field bringing unencumbered designs for the home cook and the professional.
$300-$1,500+
@pellegrino_cutlery
pellegrinocutlery.com
Sustainable & Stylish
Addi Naturals
Yemina Israel
Addi Naturals uniquely grows personal care products for men, women, baby, pets and home from seed using organic farming methods and hydroponics.
$5-$400
@addinaturals
addinaturals.com
LEL Fashion
Laura Lomascolo
LEL Fashion is an independent sustainable fashion designer who currently offers 14 scrunchie styles, 18 square scarf patterns, 5 llama fashion illustrations with variations and soon to be one-of-a-kind jackets and handbags.
$5-$200+
@lauraelomascolo
lel.design
Idol Light
Machele Nettles
Idol Light is magic channeled through jewelry that uses salvaged scientific glass to capture UV light and raise your vibration. By wearing Idol Light, you become a walking art installation, by effortlessly interacting with your surroundings, reminding you of your place within your environment, and putting you in the present moment with an act of pure joy.
$69-$600
@idol.light
idol-light.com
RethinkTANK
Jason Lempieri
RethinkTANK Manhole covers from around the world are permanently etched into functional art. Celebrating the art that’s underfoot, but often overlooked, products include 100% sustainable cork coaster sets and trivets, wooden magnet sets and wall art.
$16-$125
@rethinktank
Salvaged Woodworks
Gordon Richardson
Salvaged Woodworks provide sustainable, one-of-a-kind goods as unique as you and your home.
$20-$300
@salvagedwoodworks
Ash & Rise Atelier
Lauren Parrow
Ash & Rise upcycles old clothing pieces and creates new fashions from scratch for any size and gender!
$25+
@ashandriseatelier
Ray’s Reusables
Ray Daly
Ray’s Reusables sells eco-friendly lifestyle items in addition to bring-your-own-container style refills.
$5-$40
@rays_reusables
Yrcinc
Samuel Yankell
A series of iconic figurative sculptures in a broad range of themes that exhibit tremendous geometric freedom and vitality while incorporating innovative and unique construction and finishing materials.sculptures on bases “found” at NextFab.
$100-$700
Small Wonder Honey
Kaitlin Fanning
Small Wonder Honey is a women-owned and operated apiary located in Delaware since 2017, starting with two hives and expanding to 8. Shop for local honey and infused honey such as hot honey and cinnamon, as well as products including lip balm, soaps and candles.
$5-$10
@smallwonderhoney • facebook.com/smallwonderhoney
Ordinary O
Olivia
Kaufman-Rovira
Ordinary O is a collection of unique sculptures for your home that highlight the extraordinary in the ordinary. The work is about finding and creating moments of joy and intrigue in our everyday lives. Adorn your home!
$40-$200
@ordinary_o
Playful & Practical
The T-shirt Box by Mado
Linda Watson
The T-shirt Box by Mado is a mystery t-shirt subscription box, with a twist! Each month you will receive a new premium soft style tee and informational card about that month’s brand. Managed by one-stop shop creative agency, Mado.
$65-$100
@officialtshirtbox
Cartrageous
Deanna McLaughlin
Cartrageous crafts stylish necklaces, earrings, tie tacks, and cuff links that are true conversation starters utilizing the most iconic image of our consumer-based culture: the shopping cart.
$80-$285
@cartrageous
Fishtown Signs
Troy Musto
Fishtown Signs handmakes unique and whimsical wooden fish and maritime-related signs for people’s homes, businesses and beach houses.
$150+
@txfishmonger
Scrapyard Aesthetics
Scott Cunningham
Handcrafted scrap metal clocks and lamps and sculpture inspired by work in the auto shop.
$45-$120
@scrapyardaesthetics
Cocoa Press
Evan Weinstein
Cocoa Press offers personalized, 3D-printed artisanal chocolate for any occasion.
$20-$60
@cocoapress
Girl Holding
a Pen
Lauren Kelley
Girl Holding a Pen is a calligraphy-based design company that focuses on Christmas ornaments, weddings and signage.
$24-$150
@girlholdingapen
Philadelphia Laser & Industrial Design
Sharif Pendleton
Philadelphia Laser & Industrial Design creates useful, beautiful, and clever housewares and gifts.
$8-$150
@laserphilly
MiniAlley
Khai Van
miniAlley Bookshelf Insert is a fully assembled, high quality, handmade gift, perfect for the bookworm in your life. Combining laser cutting and 3D printing technologies burnished with an artisans touch, each miniAlley will transport you to a new world.
$199-$239
@mini_alley
Jawnaments
Susan Murphy
Show the love for your hometown with a hyper-local Jawnament! Offering unique “that’s awesome” gifts, including holiday ornaments for lovers of Philly, NJ, Boston, NYC, MD, RI, NH (and soon for Seattle, San Fran and LA).
$15-$20+
@jawnaments
Elevate your Aesthetic
Cherné Altovise
Cherne Jean-Louis
Handmade jewelry and accessories for the everyday fashion icon that have a meaning, tell a story and create lifelong memories!
$20-$350
@chernealtovise
Feast Jewelry
Adrienne Manno
Feast is a line of handmade ever-evolving jewelry and accessory capsules that is inspired by both industrial design and nature. Combining found and sourced organic elements of pearl, shell, coral and glass, Feast borrows from the environment with restraint, and upcycles vintage and deadstock chain when possible to lighten the footprint of the brand while adding a vintage aesthetic.
$32-$120
@feast_jewelry
feastjewelryshop.com
PIECES + PARDONS
Shannon Aragon
Mixed-media jewelry made with purpose and intent, to be adored and adorned, made with polymer clay, resin, jewels, metals and precious stones. Buy a meaningful piece with a message from the #passmypieces line and pay it forward to another when it’s time.
$28-$50
@piecesandpardons
piecesandpardons.com
Linda Celestian
Linda Celestian
Local artist Linda Celestian crafts inspired, laser-cut wood and acrylic earrings and pendants.
$25-$60
@lindacelestian
KKACHI
Grace Choi
Playful and elegant explorations in ornithology. KKACHI art and jewelry comprises of mixed materials and processes.
$25-$100
@kkachi_curiosities
Ursa Marea
Annette Shantur
Ursa Marea began as a creative exploration during the pandemic. Each piece is made by Annette in her home, and is designed to be a natural extension of the human form, so that jewelry and body complement and augment each other.
$25-$75
@ursamareaclay
Livetodream
Elizabeth Karasek
Livetodream depicts everyday life through precious metals, gemstones, wood, and leather in the form of purse and jewelry designs.
$40-$300
@livetodreamliz
Rebecca Ledbetter Art
Rebecca Ledbetter
Rebecca Ledbetter is a Philadelphia-based artist who paints abstract oil paintings and encaustic work utilizing inspirations from beloved novels, memories, the intensity of communication and the narratives around us to guide her work.
$350+
@rebecca.ledbetter.art
