Bradford Shellhammer

Bradford Shellhammer is founder and former Chief Design Officer and Chief Creative Officer of Fab.com. He's a skilled creative director, curating, writing, making art, designing, and art directing with equal impressive results. He's an energetic leader and entrepreneur. Bradford is passionate about design, fashion, and art and has chosen a career and life celebrating beauty and creativity. Fab was born from his vision of the world, designers, and retail.

Shellhammer has been named one of the ‘100 Most Creative People in Business’ by Fast Company and coined the ‘King of Quirk’ by Forbes Magazine and the ‘Eames of E-Commerce’ by USA Today. He's a graduate of Goucher College and Parsons The New School For Design. At Fab, Bradford oversaw all creative for the company, running an international team of hundreds of people working in buying, sourcing, editorial, brand, photography, graphic design, product design, merchandising, and all other creative teams. He also founded Queerty and was a founding team member of Design Within Reach's Design Notes blog. He's opened retail concepts for Fab, Blu Dot, and Design Within Reach.

Bradford grew up in Baltimore and has a weakness for Scandinavian electro-pop, Danish design, modern art, and all things Eames. His byline has appeared in Full Frontal Fashion, Dwell, Huffington Post, and the Sundance Channel, and his homes have been featured in Architectural Digest, Dwell, Hypebeast, Lonny, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The South China Morning Post, Time Out New York, and The Times of London. He's been profiled in diverse publications including Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Wallpaper*, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Wired, etc.

Bradford is a Webby, Crunchie, Wowie, and Bloggie award winner. He lives in New York City and spends much time traveling the world meeting designers and artists and makers.