Doug Johnston is an American product designer who specializes in making coiled rope baskets from natural cotton rope and colored thread. Johnston makes each piece by hand in his Brooklyn studio and calls to masonry construction, folk basketry, and natural forms as inspiration for his line of products. Each product in Johnston’s line is designed both as a functional and decorative object, and tests the limits of cotton.
Based in St. Louis, Doug Moore has been a reporter with the Post-Dispatch newspaper since 2000, focusing on stories about culture, demographic trends, and minority populations.