THE MAKERS

Tim Cohan is founder and creative director of Cohan Design. A former Pentagrammer, he has designed brands for Warner Bros., Fisher-Price, and the Wizarding World, as well as the signage and wayfinding master plan for Hudson River Park in Manhattan. He also created and teaches a course called Brand Concepts in the MFA Design program at School of Visual Arts. 

But wait; what does all of that have to do with Wood Moves? Let’s lose the third person narrative and I’ll tell you a tale: 

I have been building things since 2015 when I moved into an apartment with a roommate, but almost no furniture. So we set up a woodshop in a spare room and made our furniture. Not so surprisingly, everything was constantly covered in sawdust no matter how careful we were. There was a lot of learning on the fly and many mistakes, but we improved and we still have all our fingers. We crafted custom built-in shelves and storage systems, stand alone furniture, and a bookcase that opens up to a pantry. 

I’ve since converted that woodshop to a nursery, and shifted my focus to smaller pieces which I design and build at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn. This is about the time when I started working with Jesse and Ryan to get Wood Moves off the ground. It is a dream project for me in that it bridges the worlds of graphic design and woodworking.