Projects

For Summer 2026, Dusen Dusen collaborated with Happiest Baby to produce sleep sacks, swaddles, and bassinet fitted sheets. Happiest Baby's SNOO smart sleeper is a pediatrician created system to help baby sleep better. Happiest Baby adopted 5 Dusen Dusen patterns for the collaboration: Egg, Tulip, Blue Check, Pink Check, and Beige Check. All items are 100% cotton and created by pediatrician Dr. Harvey Karp of Happiest Baby. The Beige Check pattern and Tulip Pattern match Dusen Dusen bedding. 

Our collaboration with SNOO is available for purchase here.

For Spring 2026, Laguna~B and Dusen Dusen debuted their premier collaboration. Designed by Ellen Van Dusen in Brooklyn and hand-blown in Murano, Venice, Italy by heritage craftsmen at Laguna~B, the pitchers and cups took inspiration from creatures of sea, land, and sky. The collection marries Laguna~B's signature techniques with Dusen Dusen's inclination towards bold color and pattern. You can shop for the collection at our website and learn more about Laguna B here.

In Fall 2025, Dusen Dusen collaborated with Hanna Andersson on a unique collection of French terry sweats, PJs, socks, and t shirts that brought together Hanna's legacy quality with Dusen Dusen's inventive design. Made for everyone from newborns to adults, the entire collection was sold on Hanna Andersson's website with the socks available on Dusen Dusen's website. Items featured our Martine Stripe, our Warm Stripe, Oak Pattern, Raspberry Pattern, Sea Stripe, and our Everybody face. 

In Fall 2024, Dusen Dusen collaborated with Little Beast to create a series of adorable onesies, parka vests, and carriers for the fashion-forward dog owner. The onesies were available in 3 color ways, each with contrasting stripe patterns on the sleeves. Their patterns–Peppermint, Green Bean, and Macaroni–matched Bathrobes and Towels from the Dusen Dusen 2024 season. 

In Spring 2024, Dusen Dusen designed a mobile for MoMA Design Store andin collaboration with the Denmark-based Flensted, a family business who has been making mobiles since 1954. Our studio in Brooklyn has several Flensted mobiles hanging above the desks, making Ellen Van Dusen's final design a labor of love and result from years of passion. The Floral Hanging Mobile is an adaptation on Flensted's Symphony in Three Movements. The exclusive design is an eye-catching, one-of-a-kind addition to any room in your home. 

The Dusen Dusen Floral Hanging Mobile is made from polypropylene leaves and petals in green, red, yellow and black colors.

Dusen Dusen collaborated on a suitcase collection with travel retailer Arlo Skye in November 2019 and Fall 2023. In 2019, Dusen Dusen issued three hardshell bags as a darling solution for any frequent flyer. The design features a bold yellow hardshell exterior and colorfully patterned interior lining. The luggage comes in 3 sizes under their Zipper range. 

For the 2023 collaboration, Dusen Dusen reimagined Arlo Skye’s Backpack, Weekender and Dopp Kit in a multi-striped exterior print. The eye-catching bags are lightweight and water-resistant with seam-sealed zippers, odor-canceling antimicrobial interior linings and an Italian leather trim. They can be purchased exclusively through Arlo Skye. 

In 2019 Ellen further explored site specific design through a custom interiors project for a Prospect Heights residence. The floor is comprised of individual tiles that create a repeat three color floral pattern.

The tiles are now produced and available for purchase through Concrete Collaborative.

In 2018, Dusen Dusen joined forces with Bower to create a collaborative mirror set called Cutouts. Ellen Van Dusen took inspiration from a pattern she designed for her clothing line and Bower helped translate it into a unique mirror triptych.

Cutouts is composed of irregular fun shapes cut out of large rectangles of clear, architectural-grade glass mirror. The shapes sit within their own voids and pop with colorful outlines showing through the surrounding gaps created by an underpainting on the mirror's substrate. This new technique was discovered through experimentation in the development of the Cutouts collaboration. Cutouts is made from with hand applied acrylic paint and a walnut frame. It is made in New York City.

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Dragon Curve is an installation of objects, wall pieces and home goods that explores a specific pattern, "Arc," in various iterations and through different widths, colors, and media. The pattern is created by connecting multiple rotations of a simple shape – an arc – at a 90° angle, and is inspired by an infinite fractal pattern first described by NASA physicist John Heighway in the 1960s known as the “Dragon Curve.” The resulting curve is continuous and infinite; it never crosses itself and does not meet at the ends. In her work, Ellen often utilizes mathematical rules to create patterns, isolating one or two factors in order to produce a complex image.

The exhibition features collaborations with Bower Studios and Brendan Timmins. With a focus on mirrors, Bower explores perceptions of depth, light and self, and aims to bring unexpected objects and environments into people's lives. The triptych mirror, designed in collaboration with Bower, merges Van Dusen's playful patterns with Bower's innovative take on mirrors. The upholstered chairs, made in collaboration with Timmins, signal a new use and direction for the “Arc” print. Timmins, a designer of semi-functional aestheticized objects, is inspired by hidden processes, material experimentation and the prototype as a unique and self-contained form.