Andrew Carlson

Andrew Carlson, Mixaba

New party-goers every 15 minutes: How KC-designed Mixaba could put humanity back into happy hour

Andrew Carlson is the first to admit he isn’t the most vocal person at a party — but even he knew 30 people trying to talk over each other at a virtual happy hour isn’t the solution to socially distant socializing.  “Right now everybody’s staring at each other behind the screen  A one-on-one conversation is fairly…

Andrew Carlson and Julie Korona, Paloma Post

Duo designs Paloma Post greeting cards for more inclusive representation of couples

As she stood flipping through an endless sea of birthday cards, Julie Korona couldn’t find a single one that would send the right message to her then-fiancé, Tyler, she recalled. “All of the cards that I was looking through either said ‘husband’ or were super generic,” said Korona, co-founder of Paloma Post — a newly…