The World of Sheri McCulley

Sheri McCulley is a world where kids chase fireflies on warm summer nights, woodland creatures chatter and explore with their friends, and jaunty French girls join upbeat Eskimos in celebrating the unique pleasures and distinctive symbols of their one-of-a-kind cultures around the world.

Sheri McCulley is also a place where color, texture, and original patterns combine in beautiful and sophisticated design that easily translates into personal products and home décor.

Sheri McCulley is a way of life that embraces tradition, celebrates originality, winks with humor, and brings comfort, cheer, and classic design to everyday living.

Shoppers from toddlers to grandmothers have fallen in love with Sheri McCulley's approachable style, fresh and fearless color palettes, delightful characters, coordinated illustration and patterns . . . its pure enchantment.

A Passion to Create

Sheri McCulley Seibold’s earliest memories start in the college studios where her art-professor father taught, alternating with the Oklahoma farm where she spent time with her grandparents every summer. Sheri grew up among the easels, paints, and brushes of college art departments, and remembers that her earliest goal was simply “to create!” She remembers being a toddler and not wanting to go to the baby sitter while her mother worked as a secretary. So she tagged along to the office and sat quietly under her mother’s desk where she happily drew, cut, and stapled some of her earliest creations. (She liked scissors so much that she got her own pair while still pretty small, and you can see one result of her early cutting practice when she went after her bangs in the photo above.)

A little later, Sheri sat on the living room floor of her grandparents’ Oklahoma farmhouse, spreading out buttons from a big jar, matching them to swatches of old fabric, and picking her favorites. Her grandma, Vera, was a collector and saver whose thrift led Sheri to find the beauty in classic fabric designs, buttons, and other familiar household items. After leaving college with degrees in photography and graphic design, Sheri spent several years doing commercial design projects.

Although she was developing the typographical, illustration, and graphic design skills that landed her in a few "best of" commercial design annuals, Sheri always returned to creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind cards, home decor items, toys, and patterns that reflected the originality of her father’s art studio and the familiarity and warmth of her grandma’s home.

Now, Sheri spends all her time creating new designs for products, delivering a uniquely recognizable style that we could call fun, classic, whimsical, or any of the other adjectives writers use for artists. But you can just look for products with that "Sheri McCulley" tag and decide for yourself.

The Sheri McCulley story continues at her studio blog, which features regular updates about design collections she's working on, reflections on her sources of inspiration, and information about a growing family of new products from manufacturing partners that reflect the distinctive style of Sheri McCulley.