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The rich welcome the humble-looking abode
Original at Los Angeles Times
• Sun, Jun 7
CA Arbiters of style such as Jonathan Adler, a Melrose Avenue boutique owner and judge on the Bravo show "Top Design," see the trend as the convergence of several looks: an organic, modern direction evidenced in tree-stump end tables and other designs ...
Hue can change your life
Original at Manila Bulletin
• Mon, Jun 1
Philippines In Top Design, a show over Second Avenue where stylists and interior designers compete to come up with the most evocative spaces, judges would usually ask the contestants what's the “pop of color” that they've incorporated into their projects. ...
Graphic Designer Boggeman Top Rookie
Original at South County Times
• Fri, May 29
MO Boggeman opened his graphic design business, Eraser Top Design, in June of 2006. He joined the Chamber in June 2007 and immediately signed up for the golf committee. Eraser Top Design offers graphic design services from concept to completion ...
HGTV's "$250000 Challenge" reflects hard times
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Sun, May 10
United States During the frothy years of the real-estate bubble, as ordinary homeowners sought a slice of the good life, interior designers were toasted like rock stars on reality series such as Bravo's (since-canceled) "Top Design" and HGTV's "Design Star. ...
Reality show's realistic prize: mortgage relief
Original at Sarasota Herald-Tribune
• Fri, May 8
FL During the frothy years of the real-estate bubble, interior designers were toasted like rock stars on reality series such as Bravo's (since-canceled) "Top Design" and HGTV's "Design Star." The seductions of real-estate investing have been covered on ...
HGTV programming reflects hard economic times
Original at Los Angeles Times
• Thu, May 7
CA During the frothy years of the real-estate bubble, as ordinary homeowners sought a slice of the good life, interior designers were toasted like rock stars on reality series such as Bravo's (since-canceled) "Top Design" and HGTV's "Design Star. ...
Weekly Reality Awards
Original at TV Squad
• Sat, Apr 18
CA I was then waiting for Hosea from Top Chef to teach them about the benefits of eating fish, Nathan from Top Design to give tips about energizing colors in the house, and Cody from Step It Up and Dance to mention the benefits of dancing. ...
Viewfinder : Still in the dark / Nestor Torre
Original at Inquirer.net
• Wed, Apr 15
Philippines The new season of “Top Design” is telecast Tuesdays at 9 pm on 2nd Avenue. The reality challenge's host, India Hicks, supervises a competition that pits 13 gifted interior designers vying for the tilt's $100000 cash prize, among other juicy perks.
New Seasons
Original at BusinessWorld Online
• Mon, Apr 13
Philippines JOV There have been reality shows for singers and dancers, models and fashion designers, and then there is Top Design, the reality TV contest in search for the next big interior design star. The show, which has been winning fans in the US, has returned ...
Clay Aiken Tyra Banks!
Original at lalate news
• Mon, Mar 16
CA Other guests and presenters scheduled to attend the New York event include: Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan (Top Design), Clay Aiken (American Idol), former NBA player John Amaechi, Jensen Atwood and Patrik-Ian Polk (Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom), ...
Barbie Turns 50Original at MyFox Los Angeles
• Mon, Mar 9
CA Adler is a judge on the Bravo channel's popular show "Top Design." The house includes a bedroom with wall-to-wall pink carpet topped with the initial "B" and a closet filled with 50 pairs of pink peep-toe heels. A Dream House has long be one of the ...
Turning a Basic Apartment Into a Home
Original at Business Mirror
• Sun, Mar 8
Philippines So Karady, also a recent finalist in Bravo’s Top Design reality show, asked her seamstress to add 46-inch inserts of watered silk about two feet down from the top of each panel. “Most people would have added the panel to the bottom of the curtains,” ...
Top Model 12, Make Me a Supermodel 2 debut tonight
Original at reality blurred
• Wed, Mar 4
By Andy Dehnart Bravo brings back Make Me a Supermodel for a second season, and while the first season had a bromance and some other drama, it was pretty dreadful as a competition. But Bravo's good at retooling series, as it did with the successful second season of Top Design, and for this season, they've ma...
Bravo looking for new “Top Chef” contestants
Original at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Wed, Feb 4
United States Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz (”Project Runway,” “Top Design”) serve as executive producers. Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in ...
Fashionista David Heimann at home on TV
Original at NEWS.com.au
• Thu, Jan 15
Australia - Top Design only works with sets whereas here there will be real clients," Heimann said. He reckons suburbia will handle his and the designers' styles. ...
Opinion: Top Design 11/5/08--"Finale pt. 2" summary
Original at My monkey could do that
• Fri, Nov 14
By Toyouke(noreply@blogger.com) The morning of the last day brings everyone talking about how they want to win and their dreams of what they’ll do when they win. 2 hours to work today, which isn’t that much time. Ondine is still freaking out. It’s a theme. Her carpenter promised her that the kid’s bed would be done when she showed...
Top Design 10/29/08--"Finale pt. 1" summary
Original at My monkey could do that
• Thu, Nov 13
By Toyouke(noreply@blogger.com) Previously on Top Design: everyone had to make rooms out of Jonathan Adler products, which was semi-interesting. Then they designed rooms around giant sparkling chandeliers. Some of them were cool, but Preston’s looked weird. He won, somehow, even though his chandelier was only the cent...
Top Design 10/22/08--"Light It Up" summary
Original at My monkey could do that
• Thu, Nov 13
By Toyouke(noreply@blogger.com) Andrea is already freaking out and talking about how she’s an underdog. Oh man, I wish Natalie was still here, she’d have some crazy stuff. Eddie snobs that if he wanted to work at a Jonathan Adler store he would have filled out an application. Not funny, and also the smirking ruins the joke, gen...
Top Design 10/15/08--"Room of the Future" summary
Original at My monkey could do that
• Thu, Nov 13
By Toyouke(noreply@blogger.com) Back in the apartment Andrea calls home. Well, they show her with the phone, but they never show the conversation. In the morning Natalie is feeling pretty good. Andrea, on the other hand, is convinced she is going home. She’s tired of being harped on, and Eddie suggests she just ignore them, or...
Nathan wins Top Design 2, which is now Bravo's second-best reality competition
Original at reality blurred
• Sun, Nov 9
By Andy Dehnart Having been demoted to mere judge, Jonathan Adler was a lot more tolerable, even when he said crazy shit, and his stupid send-off line wasn't missed. Margaret Russell grew into one of the best Bravo judges, particularly when she challenged other judges, while Kelly Weastler was more cohe...
I Like to Watch: As our fallen nation struggles to its feet, CW's "Easy Money" gets the ax and Bravo's "Top Design" fails its final challenge
Original at Salon
• Sun, Nov 9
By Heather Havrilesky The sun shines a little brighter on this once-great nation of ours today! With an unabashedly intellectual president set to replace the current ignorant frat boy in office, all of a sudden it's not impossible to think that we might crawl out of our slump somehow, that we might re...
Ugly Betty and 30 Rock highlight tonight on TV
Original at SheKnows.com
• Thu, Nov 6
AZ - Nov 6, 2008 I did watch the season finale of Top Design and again my predictions were correct -- Nathan was the winner! I think he was the best choice because he really ...
Jonathan Adler: Design Guru
Original at OutZone
• Wed, Nov 5
By Aaron Krach Long before he became Top Judge on "Top Design," Jonathan Adler held a little gay place in our hearts. Who else turns their crafty passion (pottery) into an empire of stores and sheets and hotels. And they have amazingly talented husbands and are so out it makes us want to come out of the closet...
'Top Design': Eddie and his ego head home
Original at baltimoresun.com
• Mon, Nov 3
This week, the challenge is to design one room of a three-bedroom home to persuade the judges to let them finish the home, which will be the final challenge. The designers get to pick whichever room they want, and they get 90 minutes to pick out colors and wallpaper. The contestants have the re...
Top Design: Finale Part 1 (Episode #209)
Original at The Recapist
• Fri, Oct 31
By Jennifer Simonovic Todd comes by to check up on the designers and Preston is up first. Of coarse, he's done an amazing job. Ondine's room actually looks great, regardless of all the drama. Todd tries to suggest drapes, however, Ondine tried, and failed, to make window treatments. Eddie, well, there isn't mu...
John Gray: Top Design Rising Star
Original at OutZone
• Thu, Oct 30
By Bo Powell On the other hand, I felt bad for him. I thought, this is not me. I would rather take Michael home and mentor him and teach him. But I had 8 hours to finish that room or I was going home. It was the worst situation I have ever been in. He did absolutely nothing.
And Then There Were Four: Andrea Schroder Exits Early from Top DesignOriginal at mediabistro.com
• Mon, Oct 27
The most recent episode of Bravo's Top Design ended with a scene that reality TV producers dream about: as the judges prepared to choose who of the remaining five contestants would be packing his or her paint samples, Andrea Schroder (pictured at left) announced that she wanted to go home....
Top Design - "Light It Up" (Episode 208)
Original at The Recapist
• Sat, Oct 25
By Christine M The judges talked about the merits of Andrea's room. Margaret said she made an effort that she hadn't made in the past. Jonathan said that the minute she said she wanted to go home he thought, "Bye!" Simon agreed. Jonathan thought it was disrespectful to her fellow competitors, but India stoo...
Top Design: Mean Gays & Disco-Crystal Addiction
Original at TVgasm
• Fri, Oct 24
I went to Los Angeles this past weekend, which is why you got such a quick recap out of me on last week's show (for once) and I met up with Flipit, his friend Tricia, ChickBomb, and MonaMonzano for drinks on Friday night at the semi-famed Abbey, smack-dab in the middle of Boys Town (West Hollyw...
Designing Women…
Original at Donna Kauffman
• Thu, Oct 23
By Donna Oh, and Preston won the challenge. That makes two in a row. Eddie. Well, clearly the guys have it on Top Design. The five remaining designers had to design a room, any room, around an artistic, interesting Swarovski crystal chandelier. Everyone got a different piece - picked out by Eddie, who wo...
'Top Design': Here's your future
Original at baltimoresun.com
• Fri, Oct 17
Today's challenge looks ahead: The designers have to create the room of the future, for the year 2108. They have raw, three-wall spaces, and they’ll have carpenters to help. It's an individual challenge (yay!), and they get $7,000 and two-and-a-half days to work.
Top Design - "Eco-Offices" (Episode 206)
Original at The Recapist
• Fri, Oct 10
By Christine M Eddie walks into the studio and is immediately repulsed by seeing a color blocked room diagram. India introduces the designers to this week's guest judge, Danny Seo, "America's leading lifestyle authority on modern eco living." Apparently, he's the green designer from the "Today" sho...
Top Design's Teresa Keegan: 'I Kept My Focus and Smiled'
Original at mediabistro.com
• Tue, Oct 7
Her refreshingly relaxed approach may have something to do with good role models. Keegan, who currently runs her own design firm, has worked with 2008 National Design Award winner Tom Kundig and raves about the architect's vision, talent, enthusiasm, and the sense of fun that he injects...
Shazia Kirmani Leaves Top Design with New Appreciation for Todd Oldham
Original at mediabistro.com
• Fri, Sep 26
Houston-based interior designer Shazia Kirmani (pictured at right) is the latest Top Design contestant to hear from host India Hicks, "Sorry, but we could not live with your design." Shazia's voice got lost in the shuffle of this week's challenge, which divided the contestants into tea...
Top Design - "Bachelor Pads" (Episode 204)
Original at The Recapist
• Thu, Sep 25
By Christine M The designers head back to work on their spaces for the last day. Ondine starts decoupaging a wall with prints of different animal species. It was weird. Teresa said her team had a lot to do. Shazia was not confident about the cornice boards she fought so hard for, as they're taking longer to inst...
Top Design - "Window Display" (Episode 203)
Original at The Recapist
• Fri, Sep 19
By Christine M It's getting a bit more quiet in the house, and Nathan is glad to be put one step closer to being a "starlet of design." Nathan's new solumate Wisit says he was a graduate of Parsons, but was never happy in the fashion industry. Eddie jokes that the next challenge would involve "two dollars and a...
"Top Design 2" recaplet (Ep. 2.02): Bunker? I hardly know her!
Original at AfterElton.com
• Thu, Sep 11
- Previously on Top Design 2, we were introduced to the newest crop of designers and there's half a bushel of gays up in the joint this season! ... Top Design' goes underground Zap2it.com all 2 news articles
'Top Design' host India Hicks picks her must-haves for the fall
Original at Niagara Falls Review
• Tue, Sep 9
Canada - Posted By AP She's a model, a mother, a businesswoman and a writer. She's also a bit of a legacy: Hicks is the daughter of interior decorator David Hicks ...
Quickies: The "in development" edition
Original at Popnography
• Wed, Jul 23
By Noah Michelson gt;Handy with a Kiln? Killer with a glue stick? Sarah Jessica Parker is looking for you. The actress has teamed up with Magical Elves -- the producers behind Project Runway, Top Chef, and Top Design -- to create "American Artist," a new reality TV series which pits fine artists against one a...
How To: Top Design: Episode 4: Todd's Tip on Inspirations
Original at TV Guide
• Wed, Apr 23
Hulu video Be ambitious! Todd gives tips on how to turn your inspirations into reality.
Bravo's "Top Design" undergoes renovation, returns for second season - AfterElton.com
Original at AfterElton.com
• Wed, Apr 16
Bravo's "Top Design" undergoes renovation, returns for second season - Out design legend Todd Oldham will return as the contestant's mentor, as well as judges Margaret Russell, Kelly Wearstler, and gay designer Jonathan Adler ...
Bravo casting for Top Design 2, Shear Genuis 2
Original at reality blurred
• Wed, Jan 16
By Andy Dehnart Top Design 2 wants "[u]p-and-coming as well as established Interior Design professionals and aspirants," especially if you're fond of putting unnecessary capitalization in your designs. Open auditions will be held in San Francisco (Jan. ...
Reality TV Stars: Exhausted and Exploited
Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)
• Mon, May 14
PR-inside.com) NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- 'I would not let my worst enemy go on a reality TV show,' says Michael Adams of Bravo TV's 'Top Design.' Adams' comment is part of a podcast interview with AllThePrettyPeople.com ( http://alltheprettypeople.com/ ), a celebrity encounters we...
Top Design Recap: The Finale
Original at BlogHer
• Sat, Apr 14
The guest judge was Trudie Styler, and this challenge was to be judged on design and execution. (In a nice addition, the winning carpenter would win $10K for himself.) But despite the fact that they seemed to respond more positively and emotionally to Carisa's room, they chose Matt as the wi...
Bravo Plagiarizes Itself
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Apr 12
By Don Baiocchi With Top Chef, Top Design and last night's debut of Shear Genius, it seems that Bravo is committed to landscaping their entire schedule with the creative-arts-reality-contest "brand" they created with Project Runway. Take twelve campy, dramatic, creative people, stuff them in a pres...
Top Design Winner Is Matt Lorenz
Original at Reality TV Magazine
• Wed, Apr 11
By Joe Reality is your source for Top Design news. For other great Top Design news, please also check out SirLinksALot: Top Design. The winner of Bravo’s Top Design is thirty-two year old Matt Lorenz, who is from Comfrey, Minnesota but currently resides in Chicago. In the Top Design finale, Matt defeated...
Opinion: Top Design Top 4 Recap: When will they design an actual room?
Original at BlogHer
• Sat, Mar 31
1. Carisa was assigned Air 2. Goil was assigned Fire 3. Andrea was assigned Earth Carisa said Matt Andrea said Matt Matt said Nobody Goil first said everyone and then Andrea The winner of this challenge (and the MetHome spread) is Matt. The bottom 2 were Andrea and Goil. And Goil is going home.
Blogging Top Design: Episode 8
Original at Apartment Therapy
• Thu, Mar 29
By aaron(aaron@apartmenttherapy) Better yet. It pleases us that Top Design has turned itself around — the past two episodes have been the strongest. With fewer contestants left and thoughtful challenges, there is more time devoted to the design process...... Better yet. It pleases us that Top Design has turned itself around — the p...
Opinion: Top Design Recap: The Top 5 Eat Out
Original at BlogHer
• Mon, Mar 26
Michael: Pros-?? Cons-Rug, too many chairs...not designing, just "shopping" (ouch!) Matt slammed Goil Andrea slammed Carisa Goil slammed Carisa Michael refused to answer Carisa slammed Goil Michael is out. Our final four are Matt, Andrea, Goil and Carisa.
Top Design Recap: The Top 6 Party!
Original at BlogHer
• Sat, Mar 17
Team # Andrea (party rentals) Erik (fabrics) Goil (catering) and Team #2 Michael (party rentals) Carissa (fabrics) Matt (catering) Controlling, passive aggressive Carissa Snotty, arrogant Michael Whiny, victim-y Goil That Goil is a bit of a martyr.