We met in a high school hallway in Dubai, bonded over a shared sense of humor, and eventually traded the desert sun for the creative (and significantly colder) streets of Montreal.

Noor is half Syrian, half Korean, and 100% convinced that everything in life is better when it's shaped like a mug. She’s the one usually found trying to convince the clay that it doesn’t need to be a plate when it could be a very shallow, very wide mug instead.

Sabrina is Palestinian-Lebanese and the co-conspirator in this ceramic chaos. She’s the primary architect of the "Maybe-Handle"—the philosophy that a handle should only exist if it feels like it. If you find a bowl with a handle that makes no sense, blame her. She’s having the time of her life.

Between our mixed heritages and our shared history, mugd is our way of staying best friends while making something we love. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, we definitely don't take pottery "rules" seriously, and we’re just happy to be here.

After a decade of friendship and a move across the world, we realized that our true calling wasn't just making pottery—it was actually being very silly. We aren't here to follow the rules of "functional ceramics." We’re just two best friends in a Montreal studio, 100% committed to the bit that everything—from your soup bowl to your succulent pot—deserves to get mugd.