Persistent and Enduring
Although there was no way to predict the distinctive trajectory and wonderfully accomplished pathway of her career, Susan Lyons should have suspected some exciting outcomes when she focused her art school senior thesis on the fusion of art and commerce in contemporary culture. It only gets better from there. As part of the thesis project, she and some classmates started, grew, and then sold a t-shirt printing company; she worked for an industrial textile mill in India, learning and appreciating the convergence of culture and craft; and she even started a successful collaboration with the renowned architect Bill McDonough by cold calling his office. In the near future, Susan Lyons will step aside from her role as the president of Designtex, one of the world’s leading textile design and manufacturing companies, a role she has held there for more than 10 years. Going forward she’ll have fewer meetings on her …
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