What we do:
Our custom prints originate from digital photography taken randomly throughout the course of everyday life. Snapsnots of life, culture, and nature create optically intriguing digital prints that highlight details and disguise the recognizable images captured by the camera.
We are instinctually creating print based products from photographed observations of the real world around us. The range of subject matter is vast and builds upon botanicals, architecture, industrial objects such as airplane engines, graffiti and street art, water, window reflections, sculpture and color studies.
Our work combines an architectural progressiveness with thoughtfulness to detail by reimagining visual aspects of our everyday world and creating sublime images out of the often overlooked.
Our brand name comes from two rescue dogs, Nico and Lulu, best friends and soulmates to each other, their brother Caulfield and their dad, our designer.
nico+lulu strive to source and manufacture all of our products in the USA
John C. Barone and Bradford Karns, who are longtime friends and graduates of the University of Southern California, formed the partnership of the design company ROOSTudio LLC.
nico+lulu is part of ROOSTudio LLC, founded on a unique, collaborative partnership between divergent talents with origins in architecture, fine art and entrepreneurship. We incorporate original artwork with a variety of diverse applications to create visually stimulating product.
JOHN C. BARONE, Designer & Principal John holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He was a founding partner and principal of AT6 Architecture in San Francisco. His completed works have been published in numerous notable publications. He has also been a Senior Visiting Lecturer at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
BRADFORD KARNS, Business Development, Principal Karns, who goes by Brad, was a founder of Dimension X, an internet software company that was acquired by Microsoft. He has served as a business consultant to many start-up companies and ventures. Brad also attended Le Cordon Blue College of Culinary Arts.
Nico (right) and Lulu waiting for dad to finish up work at the studio.
At the beach, heaven on earth for these girls.
Just hanging out while dad works