Photographer · Woodworker · Restorer · Builder · Musician

I make things
every single day.

Five brands. One shop in Oak Cliff. No days off. This is the creative life behind everything I build — from conference headshots to hand-turned lamps to wedding stories to furniture brought back from the dead.

I never set out to run five businesses. I set out to make things. A photograph. A table. A lamp. A moment that matters. Somewhere along the way, the making became the mission. Every day I wake up and build something — with my hands, with my camera, with my family. This site is the proof. Not the portfolio. The process.

— Erick Johnson, Dallas TX
The journal

Everything I'm making, writing, and learning.

The work

Different brands, same hands.

Every one of these started because I couldn't stop making things. Click through to see the portfolios, the products, the process.

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This isn't a one-way street. If something lands, reply. I read everything.

No spam. New posts when I have something worth sending.