WE'VE
Eve Blossom's twenty years' experience in design, design systems thinking, transparent supply chains, early-stage technology firms,
international business, nonprofit and social ventures led her to founding her current companies, Lulan Artisans and WE’VE.
After earning her master's degree in Architecture from Tulane University, she practiced at Gensler in Los Angeles. She then spent two years in Vietnam restoring French villas for such clients as Price Waterhouse and Chase Manhattan and training Vietnamese architects on CAD systems.
It was during Blossom's time in Vietnam that she found the roots of her calling. Traveling throughout Southeast Asia, she became passionate about local handmade textiles and other artisanal products. She recognized that the superb talents of the artisans combined with a social venture model could create an economic engine to fuel systemic social change.
Lulan’s model expanded further with WE’VE, a design-curated, e-commerce community that supports closer relationships between buyers, designers and artisans through story. WE’VE’s geographical reach is global and the artisanal products are diverse. Lulan Artisans was a finalist in the INDEX: Award 2011 for the design of its business strategy.
A frequent lecturer worldwide on sustainable integrated design and innovative business methodologies, Eve has had the opportunity to speak at a wide variety of conferences and events, including TED, SXSW, Autodesk, AIGA, Sustainable Brands and Summit Series.
Eve is the author of the book, Material Change: Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement published in 2011. She is also an Aspen Institute Liberty Fellow.