About Kyle Design - Working Artist's Studio - Since 1982

Kyle Design is an artist studio that creates unique, affordable gift items, jewelry and home accessories by designer Kyle McKeown Mansfield. For over twenty-six years now, we have been known for quality hand craftsmanship, reliability and excellent customer service, and our work is carried in over 100 galleries, museum shops and fine crafts stores around the country. Please click on Galleries for a partial listing.

Visit our Testimonials page where other customers share their experiences with Kyle Design.
"If you want to find a good company, look for one where the owner puts her name on every piece."

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Visit Kyle's Blog to read her musings how to incorporate unique functional art into one's life and about being a designer, entrepreneur, wife and mother while still finding time to laugh.

Why Buy From Kyle Design?

Shop with Kyle Design - it's fast, it's easy and it will make a great impression. We'll help you find just what you're looking for, plus you'll get a lot for your money, too. Here's what we can do for you:

• Save with Flat Rate Shipping - Whether you need one item or one hundred, your ground shipping is just one low price. Tax free outside of CA.
• Value - Gifts That Last - High quality materials and quality workmanship at affordable prices.
• One Stop Shopping - Unique gifts for everyone on your list. Men or women, employees or retirees, young or mature. 100s of exclusive designs with sports, hobbies, religions, professions, animals, nature.
• Useful, Practical Gift Solutions - Bringing style to everyday items. Kyle creates unique, functional gifts that are a pleasure to use.
• Personalization - Create the perfect gift! Our gifts are personalized and highly customizable. Pick colors, designs, metal finish and size on a wide range of products - thousands of unique possibilities with just a few clicks.
• Engraving - We offer custom engraving on most items and all our engraving is done in house for faster service. No need to make an extra trip for personalization!
• Made To Order, and Fast - We make each item to order, and we do it quickly! Get just what you want, when you want it. Even with custom engraving, we still ship within 1-2 days!
• Reputable - In business for 26 years, Kyle established her online presence in 2001. We're organized, efficient and reliable. Offering wonderful, personal customer service since 1982.
• Safe - Our secure servers use strong SSL encryption to protect your important information. Our site is managed by Zoovy, Inc., a leader in ecommerce technology, plus McAfee Secure monitors the security of our site daily.
• Made in USA - Our designs are made and assembled in the US and we primarily use American suppliers.*
• Artist Direct - Save time, save money. When you buy straight from the artist, you get real value and avoid big markups. Kyle's great staff has worked with her for years, guaranteeing quality craftsmanship and dependable order fulfillment. You'll receive beautiful gifts, on time.
• Easy to Contact - If you need to call us during business hours, you will reach our production studio where we are making your items - not a call center, not an answering service, not a warehouse. You can ask questions, make a change, upgrade a shipping method, etc. If you prefer using email, that's fast, too, as we respond to our email throughout the day. Real people, real answers. We are available and ready to help!
• Exclusive - While many galleries carry Kyle's business card holders, vitamin cases, compacts, switch plates and bookmarks, the vast majority of work on this website will be found exclusively here - jewelry, Christmas ornaments, flasks, wood desk accessories, eyeglass holders, jewelry boxes, hair barrettes, etc. Truly unique gifts you won't find anywhere else!

How We Make Our Custom Gifts

Kyle Design is a special kind of company. Our business concept involves you in the creative process by allowing you to select all the elements that go into your finished item. That way we can create a piece that is unique to you. We currently offer over 300 design patterns to choose from. Even though all of our decorative gift items are made to order, most orders are still shipped within one to two business days.

In order to quickly customize your items, we make all the elements that go into your piece ahead of time. We prepare the etched and plated metal, cut the stained glass, form the aluminum or make the iridescent film and have these all ready to go when you place your order. Your gift item is then created using the design you selected layered over the thin sheet of aluminum or iridescent film of your choice.

Hundreds of Designs, Millions of Possibilities

When we say personalized, we're not kidding. So how many choices are there? Just an example: Business card cases come in more than 350 designs, 40 accent colors, 4 metal finish combinations and two depths, so 350 x 40 x 4 x 2 = 112,000 choices. And that's just for one item - before adding engraving! Bottom line, you can create gifts that uniquely reflect your style and interests.

Artistic Beginnings

Kyle is a naturally prolific artist, having grown up in a family that loved creating. She is the daughter of two nationally recognized artists: the late woodworker Robert G. McKeown and ceramic/stained glass artist Lee M. McKeown.

Artist Biography

Artist Kyle McKeown Mansfield has been creating her pieces professionally since 1982. She knew even at a very young age that she wanted to grow up to be an artist (she even has it in writing from kindergarten!) so she could design and work with her hands. A great experimenter and largely self-taught, she combines a strong natural sense of design with a flare for color while creating works of etched metal, iridescent film and mixed media. She takes great pride in her quality workmanship. "I want those who own and use my works to be as excited about them as I was when I made them." She currently lives with her husband and two young daughters in Northern California.

Formal Education: Kyle is a University of California at Berkeley alumni where she received her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business in 1983. At the same time she intensely studied Japanese at U.C. Berkeley, but chose to grow her business rather than stay for another semester to take the one last class needed for a language degree. (You'll notice many Asian character designs throughout her collection.)

Arts Education: Kyle taken a wide variety of classes and workshops over the years including metal forming and gemology at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco, weaving and shibori (Japanese tie dye) at the Mendocino Art Center, and painting, drawing, ceramics, jewelry making, spinning, inkle loom weaving, card weaving, silk painting, silk screening, glass slumping, copper enameling and more at arts centers throughout California.

Always Something New

Kyle is continually creating new pieces and original designs, so be sure to stop back often to see what's new. Visit our What's New page to see what Kyle has most recently added. To read what other customers are saying about Kyle Design, please visit our and original designs, so be sure to stop back often to see what's new.

For a great place to buy light switchplates, matching switches and unique home decor online, see Decorative Light Switch Plates, Switches, Toggles and Outlets. If you're shopping online for something nice to carry your business cards in, see Custom Business Card Cases and Holders. Need a larger wallet or a case for cigarettes? Check out our online store of Designer Cigarette Cases and Metal Wallets. For really beautiful pill cases to buy online, see Unique Vitamin Cases, Pill Boxes and Mints Holders. And for unusual home lighting to shop for online, see Kyle's Decorative Night Light Styles. We try to make shopping online easy. To shop by a specific interest or pattern, visit our Personalized Gifts by Theme or Design. For corporate customers, we have many distinctive Office Gifts, Badges, Employee Recognition Awards and Lanyards. There are so many ways to add interest to a room - our custom Home Decor and Lighting ideas allow you to add something special to a room to make it your own. If you like to shop online as a quick way to discover all the cool new ideas and latest trends, then be sure to visit our Unique Gift Ideas page.

*We use American suppliers or produce the items ourselves for the majority of our products: Classic metal light switch plates, decorative metal switchplates, electrical devices, night lights, sun catchers, Christmas ornaments, refrigerator magnets, business card cases, desktop business card holders, wood desk sets, Post-It note holders, pen caddies, paper clip dispensers, stamp holders, tape measures, rulers, letter openers, bookmarks, music book page holders, compact mirrors, pill boxes, vitamin cases, engraving nameplates, cigarette lighters, cigar cases, chewing gum holders, makeup cases, hair barrettes, jewelry, earrings, lockets, handbags, key chains, knitting guides, money clips, ring boxes, small wood boxes, lipstick holders, tampon cases, condom holders, contact lens cases, toothpick holders, diabetic supplies cases, divot repair tool kits, travel pencil cases, teabag cases, sweetener cases, zipper pulls, beaded lanyards, eyeglasses holders and photo frames.

Although we prefer to use US suppliers (we are always looking!), there are a few blank items currently that we can only find from overseas manufacturers. These include flasks (primarily from China or Taiwan); some of our metal wallets/cigarette cases (Germany, Taiwan or China); retractable badge reels, name badge parts, cell phone leashes and woven lanyards (China); some money clips and money clip pocket knives (China); copper switch plates (China); some large wood jewelry boxes (China); eyeglass cases, checkbook holders, brag books, iPod cases and some polished metal cases (Germany).