A product, interior, graphic, and CMF designer

tara's designs:

Interior products, architectural spaces, showrooms, exhibits, and branded graphics for healthcare, corporate, hospitality, higher ed, and home + fashion.  

She has a wide-lens with the building + design industry and understands its stakeholder's : 

challenges, obstacles, and desires.

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Space: Architectural Interiors + Showrooms

Ms. Hill is an award-winning, nationally certified, state registered interior designer. She has extensive experience with “full-scope” architectural interiors, permitted construction sets, and construction administration for “jewel box” spaces from to 1 million s.f. 

With this, she keenly understands the "the plight of today's studios," the rigors facing designers, and their need to safeguard their time.  

"Maximum expression with the least amount of ornamentation,” 5,000 s.f. Award winner: Contract Magazine's "Best Small Ambulatory,” ASID GOLD Design Excellence Award.

Piedmont Physicians Group

A cost effective dynamic “play” of color blocking, geometries, large scaled imagery, narrative graphics, and flirty messaging’s. All to elicit interest to “walk in” and explore Kwalu’s first Neocon showroom and array of furniture offerings. And, view them in cross market applications. All design aspects concepted, designed, + implemented by LittleFISH.

Products: Furniture

Lounge, Tandem, + Tables

An internationally award-winning furniture designer, Tara designs for intensive use to "marry" high function with high aesthetics. She ensures her designs can be efficiently sourced, tooled, and mass-produced.

Kwalu, Healthcare, EDU, + Hospitality

A salute to modern Danish Design, Kwalu’s Diamante is a beautifully tailored unique “pillow-shaped soft diamond” form, cascading sloped arms, and a spaciously “cozy” cup-like shape — perched on a supporting wood-looking gallery.

Incorporating modern gestures, the Modena Lounge Series is a petite scaled seating collection that celebrates a “chamfer-edged” wood-looking frame (made of molded solid surface) with a sweeping curved expressive clean-out, generous knife edged seat pan, and tapered wall-saver legs.     

IOA, Healthcare + Hospitality

Direct and versatile, the Oliver Lounge + Table Series delivers international styling and universal appeal. High design meets high usage.

Designed on modular, integrated ottomans + tables can be added with any number or configurations of seats.

3 Seater Lounge w/ Integrated Quarts Table Top

GOOD DESIGN awarded

GOLD, SILVER Design Excellence Awards, ASID

Products: Soft Surfaces

Woven + Printed textiles

Tara is an internationally award-winning textile designer for healthcare, hospitality, corporate, and residential applications.

Her designs include working with agion, nylon, xorel, and natural fibers with solution dyes, digital print, and reactive dye technologies. 

100 sku Healthcare + Hospitality textile series. Inspired by Empress Josephine's Garden at Chateau de Malmaison of floral, trellises, and hand sketch work.

Woven solution dyed Agion + Nylon fibers. 

GOLD Design Excellence Award, ASID.

The first eco-friendly, digitally printed, intensive use TPE faux for healthcare and senior living. A delicate medium scaled botanical pattern for healthcare + hospitality. Is inspired by wispy poppy fields, silhouettes found in twilight nights, and romantic soft shades.

LittleFISH Dorian + Coco Series

GOOD DESIGN recipient. SILVER Design Excellence Award, ASID. Inspired by a mixing of classic masculine (dandy) international apparel appeals and youthful chic, vintage, metropolitan female appeals.  

LittleFISH Myrtles + Mint Julep  Series

Reactive dye printed, natural fibers. BRONZE Design Excellence Award, ASID. Inspired by motifs of the south interpreted in with modern twists.

Products: Hard Surfaces

Engineered Stone

Tara is an award-winning CMF hard surface designer with over 30 patterns.

Understanding Breton machinery and tooling aspects, she works closely with executive teams, in-house engineers, and resulting prototypes to develop and finalize designs. 

Hanstone Quartz, Residential + Contract

6 contemporary patterns. ASID SILVER Design Excellence Award.

LG, Viatera Quartz, Urban Chic Collection

Residential + Contract

Tara re-organized LG Viatera's large sprawled collection of existing and created 25 new quartz designs and "lifestyle" and story-lines for smaller "boutique collections."  

Tradeshows: Exhibits

Showcasing products

Tara believes the foundation of space design rests heavily on how manufacturers outreach to designers. Often, this is in the form of temporary exhibit forums which need to grab interest, showcase products - and be - cost effective, reusable, easy to ship, and easy to install.

IOA, HCD Bold Ideas

Designed to inspire designers to "push the button," break thru the box, + rethink healthcare. Ms. Hill provided all 3-dimensional + 2-dimensional design items (except the Vela chair). ASID Design Excellence Award.

IOA, HCD Bold Ideas

IOA, Oliver + Ella

A re-usable NeoCon exhibit that quickly pops up with modular acrylic dividers in floor channels and faux leather panels that wrapped base building columns. Along with, modular millwork and hanging graphic panels that are easily crated and shipped in.

Project also included the Merchandise Mart's elevator cabs and Large Main Lobby wall!

IOA Furniture Good Deeds

Hyundai Surfaces

Focused on residential Kitchen + Bath interests, Ms.Hill designed a "budget digestible" KBIS 2016 exhibit with focus on large product slabs and a center "oasis" kitchen displaying both acrylic and quartz products.