Rita Orrell

Rita Catinella Orrell is a design journalist working in New Jersey. She has been a member of the design press for almost two decades, covering interior design, home furnishings, kitchen and bath design, and architectural building products. She was products editor for Architectural Record for over 14 years and was the founding editor of SNAP, a building products tabloid. She continues to contribute to Record and SNAP, as well as other publications and websites including Architizer, Texas Architect, American Craft, Interior Design, and Engineering News-Record. She is also a published poet and her chapbook Stuck in the Dream Wheel was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. She earned her LEED Green Associate credential in 2012, indicating she knows just enough about sustainable design to be dangerous.

In addition to covering consumer product design at designythings.com, Orrell writes about building products and accessories for architects and designers at architectstoybox.com.