BIGMESS clients are from the future. They are fresh. Attitudinal, driven, and empathetic.
From heralded interior and architecture studios to emerging artists, our stable of practitioners represents a vibrant spectrum within art and design. They often cross-pollinate.
We actually prefer to refer to them as family, rather than ‘clients’. Our shared work is personal. The BIGMESS family understands that what they put into the world can affect, uplift, and influence others. Most of all, they share the same aim: To leave a thought-provoking mark on our world.
BIGMESS partners with individuals, studios, and brands to realize their most provocative ambitions.
Through memorable storytelling, newfound connections and strategies, BIGMESS fosters generative creative practices and businesses.
Davis Owen and Irene Chung are the duo behind O·N Architects, an architecture studio committed to an optimistic view of the world. Founded in NYC in 2019, O·N designs objects, interiors, and buildings across the US. The studio values immersion in complex problems, often relating to perceived understandings of space, shape, and context. Testing, learning, and play are all critical to the studio’s process of design. O·N is interested in solutions which evoke both the familiar and the strange.
O·N Architects is a current client.
O·N Architects is a current client.
UNFOLD PROJECTS is a regenerative design platform modeling stewardship for an evolving earth. Founded in 2023, UNFOLD PROJECTS collaborates with local artists and artisans to restore and cultivate spaces where creative expression has room to unfold, through both the built environment and the artist residencies embedded therein. With locations in Encinitas and Idyllwild, California, UNFOLD PROJECTS champions coexistence, complexity, and confidence, fostering deeper relationships between artists and their practice, individuals and their communities, and people and the places they inhabit.
UNFOLD PROJECTS is a current client activated by social media account management, brand consulting, copy writing, and public relations (2025–present).
UNFOLD PROJECTS is a current client activated by social media account management, brand consulting, copy writing, and public relations (2025–present).
Salt Lake City-based interior and product designer Emily Thurman founded her namesake studio in 2022 as a thoughtful exploration of craft and culture. Thurman is dedicated to creating spaces that seamlessly blend the artistry of craft with the intentionality and technical nature of design.
Emily Thurman is a past client from Spring 2025–Fall 2025.
Emily Thurman is a past client from Spring 2025–Fall 2025.
Based between New York and Florence, Italy, Soft Witness is a design practice where memory meets function. Thoughtfully crafted and imbued with sentiment, each piece blends practicality with poetic nuance, celebrating objects as the quiet witnesses to our daily lives. Founded by American designer Whitney Krieger, Soft Witness’ pieces are produced in a bespoke fashion by skilled artisans in Italy.
Soft Witness is a project-based client activated by BIGMESS PR and Creative Communications services (2025).
Soft Witness is a project-based client activated by BIGMESS PR and Creative Communications services (2025).
Founded in 2009, Parts and Labor Design is a full-service design firm specializing in hospitality, commercial, retail, and residential projects. Led by Jeremy Levitt and Danu Kennedy, Parts and Labor believes design has the ability to elevate our shared and individual experiences. The firm is led by a future-focused approach, steeped in conceptual
narratives and on-the-pulse cultural research, to achieve thoughtful, purposeful, and transformative designs.
narratives and on-the-pulse cultural research, to achieve thoughtful, purposeful, and transformative designs.
