Eric and Heather recently responded to VoyageHouston as part of their “Inspiring Conversations” series — highlighting Houstonians’ unique stories, cultures, and experiences. The interview shares a bit about how Eric and Heather started their partnership, their design ethos, challenges along the way, and how Houston’s “stickiness” keeps them rooted:
VoyageHouston:
What do you like best about our city? What do you like least?
HRDD:
What we like best: It’s sticky.
When we arrived in Houston for graduate school at Rice University, we were certain we’d collect our degrees and head somewhere else. Houston, from a distance, is hard to decode. It doesn’t offer a tidy postcard version of itself.People often say Houston lacks a single identity. And they’re right—it refuses to be just one thing. It’s art and refineries, live oaks and concrete, rodeo boots and experimental cuisine, Art Cars and Ferraris. It’s humid, generous, contradictory, and completely unbothered by categories.
That’s the magic. Houston makes room. For ambition. For experimentation. For reinvention. For everyone. You can build a life here that fits you precisely because the city doesn’t insist on defining you first. Over time, that freedom has a way of holding on to you. It’s what makes the city, and the work we do here, feel both deeply personal and endlessly expansive.
It’s sticky in the best way.What we like least: It’s sticky.
Spend one summer here and you’ll know what we mean.