meet kip

EVANSVILLE, IN 2010

Evansville's go-to design guy, Kip Farmer, brings over 25 years' experience to clientele with an aesthetic that is authentic, refined, and people-focused. A recipient of Evansville Living magazine's "Readers' Choice Award" and the Evansville Courier and Press' prestigious "Best of Evansville" status, Kip's upbeat personality and to-the-point design philosophy have led to one of the most rapidly growing followings in Indiana. His project base continues to expand with clients from select cities in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Along with his work in interior design, Kip contributes feature articles for the Evansville Courier and Press and maintains an informative design-related blog for their website. Kip is known for his long-running column "Design in Mind," for Evansville Living Magazine, and also developed the recurring "Design 101" segment featured on the NBC affiliate, 14 WFIE's Newswatch Sunrise.

Kip graduated with honors from the Southern Institute of Interior Design. After winning the statewide ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) design competition, he was selected to complete additional training, working as a design assistant at Richard Tubb Interiors of HGTV and CNN fame in Birmingham, AL.

Returning to his hometown of Evansville in 1990, Kip accepted a position with Evaline Karges Interiors and was later employed by Kimball International. His work has been featured in show houses in Birmingham, Evansville and Indianapolis, as well as national design publications such as Southern Living and HGTV Ideas Magazine.

Although most of his work over the past two decades has been residential and commercial, some of it has been palatial and even aeronautical. Working through a translator, he once designed the palace home of a sheik in Oman, Saudi Arabia. On another occasion, he selected the interior appointments for a multi-million dollar corporate jet.

Kip is married to his multi-talented partner, Maria, and the couple has three sons - Jackson, Elijah and Spence. Along with the joys and challenges of family life, Kip serves on the Board of Directors for the University of Evansville Theatre Department, the Regional Committee for Riley Children's Hospital, and is a founding member of the Evansville Regional Autism Coalition, inspired, in part, by his own child's struggle with severe autism. In 2008, Kip created the charitable design firm, design+autism and has addressed the environmental needs of those with ASD across the country, and abroad.