RUMPLEFARM

DOUGLAS GAYETON AND LAURA HOWARD-GAYETON are the founders of Rumplefarm, an integrated design studio in Petaluma, CA.

Since the early 90s they've created award-winning films, information artworks, websites, and branding campaigns for a variety clients including HBO, AOL, MSN, MTV, Napster, Electronic Arts, Vivendi, Ubisoft, National Geographic and PBS.

Besides founding Laloo’s, the first goat milk ice cream company in the USA, Laura has over 20 years experience as a senior executive for The End, Palomar Pictures, Tool of America, and Slo Graffiti, where she pioneered the art of multilayered narrative approaches to film and video for hundreds of commercial clients.

Douglas is the author of "SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town", Welcome Books, 2009. The award-winning book features a preface by the founder of Slow Food, Carlo Petrini, and an introduction by Alice Waters.

He lectures frequently on art, technology and sustainability and his photographs have been printed in Time, Cucina Italiana, Edible, Orion and other magazines and are held in numerous museum and private collections around the world.

Douglas and Laura are currently at work on the Lexicon of Sustainability. The first part of the project, "Food and Farming in America", will be published in 2013.

A few links to short films: the story of an egg, foraging, and what the word local means to sustainability
pinterest: thelexicon
twitter: @lexiconproject
facebook: lexicon of sustainability
ice cream: Laloos
videos: on Vimeo