Jill Malek

Founder and Designer

Jill Malek

“I am fascinated with the elegant movements that exist all around us, and I strive to capture those movements.”

Brilliant creator of the wallpaper living inside MTV Networks, the Google Offices, and the Ritz Carlton Restaurant, Jill Malek is a New York based artist whose wallpapers evoke memorable texture, depth, and style. In 2008, Jill began applying her graphic design skills to paper - wallpaper that is - with the initial purpose to intimately bridge interior design and art.

Surprisingly, e ach piece of wallpaper is hand-printed in a repurposed bowling alley in upstate New York. What once housed pins and hopes for strikes and spares is now a production facility with “lanes” of long tables where Jill’s innate knowledge and attention to detail is born on paper. Her inspiration of moments in time, movements in nature, and refractions of light, shine through her ‘frequency’ collection, with her most popular ‘Betta’ print being an extravagant expression of the graceful movements of Betta fish. Her skills expand way beyond wallpaper as she also specializes in print and pattern design for invitations, customized stationery, book layouts, web sites and more.

Design, skill, and vision are all key components to starting a company. With the many obstacles an entrepreneur is faced with it, is easy to be distracted and lose sight of one’s mission. Jill’s advice is “if you continue to always try to maintain that reasoning of why you started a business and stay true to that, that will be the energy and the passion to propel you and move you forward.”

On top of her career as a break-through designer and female entrepreneur, Jill Malek is also a full time mother and wife. Amidst the daily challenges, different directions, and changing gears that Jill is faced with, she feels empowered to fulfill all these roles. “I feel that I have many different facets of who I am that allows me to do what I do. One aspect of my role informs the other and it makes me more of a complete, well rounded person,” comments Jill.

Jill’s work has been featured in many publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Daily Candy, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge and more. We are very excited to hear of her recent induction to the Brooklyn Museum and can’t wait to see what this amazing woman does next.