Blair Knobel

Founder & CEO

“Creative work inspires and uplifts us. It makes us feel something.”

Award-winning editor Blair Knobel is the founder and CEO of Knobel Media, and the founder and publisher of Vessel. Prior to founding Knobel Media, Blair graduated from Furman University with a degree in studio art and honed her journalistic path as an editorial work scholar at Aperture Foundation in New York City. In 2008, she moved back to her native South Carolina, finding her creative niche in magazines. In 2011, she joined the founding team of TOWN, leading the lifestyle publication for nearly a decade as its editor in chief. In 2022, she founded Vessel, a publication celebrating the distinctive stories of the South.