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Jen is a curly hair guru in training, restaurant connoisseur, cat lover, and Jersey Girl to the core. She was raised in Howell, NJ and currently lives in Long Branch, just up the coast from Asbury. Jen had a change of heart about her career path after losing her father a few years ago. Following her heart and passion for ...]

The CMD Hand Project began with a simple idea: photograph real people from the Asbury Park community wearing our jewelry completely their own way. Nine people, twelve new designs and nine very different sets of hands later, the project became something bigger than a collection. Years later, here's what [...]

Design Lab started as an experiment. I wanted more room to play with ideas, test combinations and make things without knowing from the beginning exactly where they would end up. The idea actually goes all the way back to my Industrial Design days at Virginia Tech, where iteration after iteration taught me [...]

Blackened silver and warm gold have been part of my design vocabulary for years. I love the contrast between matte, oxidized sterling silver and shiny gold, especially when they're stacked together. Here's why BLACK + GOLD became such a signature CMD combination, how we create that darkened finish and what [...]