Melissa Hanley

Melissa Hanley is the principal and co-founder of Blitz. She performs many roles in the studio but primarily design. When she is not working on projects for innovative local technology workplaces and global retail, hospitality, and product brands, she spend her days managing operations, brand, and project delivery strategy for the studio. She is a maker at heart and fell in love with creating things at a very early age. As a daughter of a contractor / fine wood-worker, building runs in her blood. Her phenomenal parents encouraged (and tolerated) her artist expressions even at the expense of the furniture and walls. The sense of exploration and freedom to test ideas has been at the core of her world view ever since and informs her process to this day. She is committed to making Blitz projects not only beautiful and a pleasure to inhabit, but functional and economic successes as well. The trust her clients put on, is an incredible privilege and She love the process of design and collaborating with individuals who value the functional, economic (not to mention aesthetic!) benefits great design. The projects where her Client is an active member of the design team are the most successful and the most rewarding. She feel privileged to be considered a champion for good design and regularly contributes to her projects and design knowledge to technical and lifestyle publications such as Interior Design Magazine, Contract, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.