Individual perspectives.
A collective vision.
Woman-owned. Independently minded.
Led by principal designer Allison Landers, alongside Alea Rogers and Laura Lentz, Joy Design Collective is a small, creative, woman-owned residential design studio that appreciates the unconventional, the well-worn, and the wonderfully considered.
Our work is informed as much by art, history, and the peculiarities of everyday life as it is by the architecture itself. We believe the most interesting homes reveal something about the people who inhabit them.
Meet the team
Allison Landers
Principal
Allison Landers approaches a home with the eye of a sculptor and the practical understanding of a designer who has spent more than two decades working with historic Twin Cities homes.
Her creative foundation began in studio art, sculpture, and multimedia before she earned her degree from the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, and she has served on the College of Design’s alumni board to encourage student outreach, career opportunities, and local growth. Working in three dimensions shaped her sensitivity to proportion, material, light, and the body's movement through space.
Allison began designing homes in the Twin Cities in 2004, working with historic homes on Minnehaha Parkway and around the Chain of Lakes. Early experience translating ideas into construction drawings grounded her sustainable and artistic instincts in the realities of home.
Today she brings an uncommon team of artists, craftspeople, and technical collaborators to ensure each homeowner's unique vision comes through. Her attention moves naturally between the whole home, landscape, and small daily rituals — the more out-of-the-box, the better.
Alea Rogers
Senior Designer and Project Manager
Alea Rogers brings a feel for materials, a strong technical mind, and an appetite for the unexpected to residential design. Her career spans more than a decade of luxury renovations and custom homes, including island vacation residences—projects that have given her room to explore how a home can respond to its setting and its owners' imagination.
After earning her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Minnesota, Alea built her experience at residential design studios including MartinPatrick3 and Vivid Home. Working across space planning, interiors, and construction detailing shaped her ability to move comfortably between a home's overall composition and the precise decisions that give it character.
She has a particular affinity for natural stone: its movement, irregularities, and the way a single slab can inform an entire room. That curiosity extends to new materials and unexpected combinations, always with an interest in how things feel, function, and come together.
At Joy Design Collective, Alea brings both creative freedom and the rigor to follow an idea through. She enjoys clients with individual points of view, welcomes an ambitious renovation, and finds satisfaction in figuring out the details that make an unusual idea possible. Her work leaves room for beauty, personality, and the daily life unfolding within it.
Laura Lentz
Project Coordinator
Laura Lentz brings a background in stage design, performance, and arts administration to her role as Project Coordinator at Joy Design Collective. Her creative foundation is rooted in considering how a setting comes to life through space, light, materials, and the people moving within it.
Her studies at San José State University and Las Positas College shaped her appreciation for both creative exploration and the behind-the-scenes coordination required to bring it to life. Stage design brings these interests together: imagining an environment, understanding its purpose, and working across disciplines to make it tangible.
At Joy Design Collective, Laura brings that same collaborative sensibility to the studio, helping connect the people, information, and details that keep projects moving. Her experience in education and the arts adds warmth and an ease with people, making her a welcoming presence for clients and collaborators alike.
She contributes a perspective that feels at home in the collective: attentive to atmosphere, curious about how things are made, and invested in the shared work of bringing an idea to life.