10 Questions For...Laura Guido-Clark, LG-C Design

Laura Guido-Clark's firm works with the "skin" of things - color, texture, exterior - but she says she's more interested in the human experience. In other words, how does an object make you feel? Laura has consulted for companies ranging from Godiva to Samsung, and everything in between to help inspire their creations. Below, in the second installment of A Modern Eye's "10 Questions For..." series, we find out what inspires her:


1. Who is your inspiration?

I don’t believe it is a “who” - but rather a “what”, a state of mind. What inspires me is discovering potential , the “what if.”

2. Who is your favorite designer? Why?

Maison Martin Margiela.

Because their studio innovates, questions and provokes – all the while providing joy and surprise.

3. Where is your favorite place on earth?

Anyplace where I am with my family.

4. What words do you try to live by?

Love deeply, be grateful, do unto others, see the beauty in all, laugh and then laugh harder.

5 .If you could choose a different career, what would it be?

A writer stringing words together like pearls…..

6. What is one thing you would like to do before you die?

To know I made a difference and left the world better.

7. What is the most challenging thing you have ever done?

Accepting death and moving forward to live life fully.

8. What is your favorite book?

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner

9. What is currently playing on your iPod?

Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, John Legend, old Motown.

10. What do you wish you had invented?

The whoopee cushion…no seriously, a cure, a vaccination, something that has helped humanity.

 Laura's super-cool camera for Kodak

And in keeping with our inability to be satisfied with just ten questions - we couldn't resist throwing Laura a few more:

11. What is a skill that you wish you possessed?

Singing with rapture.

12. What quality do you most admire in others?

Curiosity and the ability to forgive.

13. What is your greatest strength?

Seeing the beauty in everyone and everything.

14. What is your greatest fault?

Never feeling like I am finished, like I should or could do more.

15. If a movie were made of your life, who would play you?

In my dreams, Sophia Loren; but in reality, Tina Fey.

16. What’s your favorite color?

It is ever-changing, whatever momentarily captures my eye deliciously becomes my favorite.

Above, the chair Laura created with Coca-Cola and Emeco