Aimée Wilder

About Aimée Wilder

I’m a creative director and operator with 15+ years building Aimée Wilder, a design-led…

Experience

1. Founder Creative Director Artist CEO

   Aimée Wilder

   Nov 2008 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US

   Aimée Wilder’s namesake company features dozens of original designs for wallpaper, tile, and textiles, in both home and commercial-grade applications. Her work has been widely noticed in print and online by Vogue, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Design Milk, Design*Sponge, The Textile Eye, interiors+sources, The World of Interiors, Good Housekeeping, and HGTV Magazine, among many others.Born and raised in New York, Aimée graduated from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and worked as a designer at several well-known firms, including Dwell Studio, Martha Stewart Living, and The Gap. In 2008, Vans introduced her to a global audience by featuring three of her patterns on thirty styles of shoes and fashion accessories. in 2008 Aimée founded her eponymous home decor brand, and debuted her first wallpaper designs at New York’s 2009 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Since then she has collaborated with such prominent design brands as Ivana Helsinki, L\'Appartement, and Vitra. In recent years her offerings have grown to include rugs, fabrics, accessories like pillows and poufs, and contract-grade materials. Seven of Aimée’s designs are in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum: lives and works in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Education

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA

• Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)