About Mark

Over the years and several diverse careers, Mark Hordysyznski has striven to excel beyond the everyday design challenges presented to him. “It’s the act of creating that I find most challenging. Can I take something ordinary or that’s already been done and make it modern present?”

A native New Yorker, Mark began his artistic journey following two years of study at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He has been in both front and back of the “house” as Chef, Sous Chef and Maitre ‘d, and in 1983 was awarded an Honorable Mention for his bread sculpture at the 114th Annual Salon of Culinary Arts.

Half a decade later, Mark chose to pursue his second career in men’s wear. Mark’s innate color sense and use of patterns and textures was rewarded during his years at F.I.T. with a number of scholarships and the Designer’s Critic Award at graduation. Nineteen eighty-nine provided the chance to design neckwear for Hermes, and a two-week internship at the design studio in Paris after winning Comite Colbert’s L’art de Vivre for Men’s Wear, and redesigning uniforms for the NYC Staten Island Ferry crew.

After graduation F.I.T., he took a position as a co-designer for a thriving New York based sweater company, heading the private label division for 5 years. Then a textile project for a friend lead to a design position for a major fabric converter where he was responsible for merchandising customer and licensee accounts as well as open line design work.

Next it was time for Mark to venture out on his own. In 2002 he was awarded Cotton Inc.’s 21st Annual Cotton Incorporated Textile Designer’s Award for “outstanding contributions to innovative design and styling” in the Prints – Home category.

Mark is currently licensing his designs on cotton to a textile related New York based company for quilting, crafting, and manufacturing – products such as scrubs, home journals, scrap-booking supplies and travel & bath accessories, table top and women’s apparel & accessories (pocketbooks, shoes, clothing). Recent projects include women’s scarves, an illustrated book and his collaborating with an editor, screenwriter, and animation studio as co-writer and artistic director on an original concept for an animated television series.

Amenities include fabric crafting, home decorating, accessories, quilting and design, knitting, tailoring and pattern making, cooking, reading, writing scary stories, and the Sunday NY Times crossword puzzle.