In 2015, Clay McLaurin (now of McLaurin and Piercy) was named an Atlanta Home & Lifestyle’s “‘15 Under 40’ Ones to Watch.” After taking a screen-printing course at the University of Georgia, Clay told the magazine that a light went on in his head: “I fell in love with printing on fabric—that immediacy of creating something beautiful you can touch and manipulate. From that moment, I knew I wanted to design textiles.”