On location with artisans
shaping the future of craftwork
Each season, a different city. Each episode, inside the workshop of a new story. Watch, listen, and step inside the trades that shape our culture.
Everything is getting faster.
This show is not.
In the age of AI, algorithms, and overnight shipping — this is a show about people who make things by hand. About the kind of work that can't be automated, optimized, or replaced. The kind that lives in our hands and our hearts, not just our heads.
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San Francisco
Tech capital. Craft city. Season 2 goes on location in San Francisco — inside the workshops of the artisans making things by hand in the most automated city on earth.
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More than a show
The Trades Show is one piece of a larger effort to revive, sustain, and grow the artisan trades. Here's what we're building:
A print magazine designed with the same craftsmanship as the artisans that inspired it.
Coming SoonMeet the Host
Briana Ottoboni
Briana Ottoboni is the host and creator of The Trades Show. After being awe-inspired by the work of a local cobbler who transformed a pair of old loafers, she apprenticed with a shoe cobbler and developed a fascination for the artisan trades – and a determination to revive them to their original glory, just like the cobbler did to her shoes.
The Trades Show was born as a storytelling medium to highlight artisan pathways in a return to what it means to be human.
She is also the founder of The Corral, a national jobs board connecting artisans with work, building an artisan ecosystem purpose-built for a cultural moment that won't wait.
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