#NYCxDESIGN Festival

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NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge Winners Announced

NASA has announced the winners of its Deep Space Food Challenge, a global competition to develop innovative food systems for long-term space exploration missions. #NASA #DeepSpaceFoodChallenge #SpaceExploration #Innovation

Crew members aboard the International Space Station unpack newly delivered fresh fruit and other goodies in October 2019. From left are NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir, Andrew Morgan, and Christina Koch with ESA Commander Luca Parmitano.Credits: NASA NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, a global competition to develop innovative food systems for long-term exploration missions, will announce its…

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Design| O&G Studios Hit NYC To Debut New ‘Anthology’ Exhibit & Book Release

Over the weekend, during NYCxDesign, Rhode Island-based furniture design house O&G Studios delivers an illustrious series of chair designs during their exhibit. Hosted by New York Times’ own Julie Lasky, the exhibition offered visitors a live panel Q&A, a look at the retrospective collection of unique chair designs and a first time chance to get their hands on the newly released studio produced…

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NYCxDesign: Why all-female shows are popping up all over New York

"The goal is to influence and make people aware and consider the imbalances that still persist, but not forcefully." New York City's annual design festival NYCxDESIGN begins with female designers such as Lindsey Adelman Studio and Egg Collective to give voices to women in the art and design community.

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Here's Your Go-To Guide to the Citywide NYCxDesign Festival, From Lamps Made ... - Artnet News

Designers Sebastian Errazuriz and Khyati Trehan join artist Galven Porter and Artnet's Sonia Manalili for a discussion on how advancing technology ...

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Social Calendar: New York City

January

Winter Jazzfest

New York Boat Show

New York Jewish Film Festival

New York City Ballet Repertory Season

February

New York Fashion week Fall-Winter

amfAR Gala New York

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

March

Outsider art fair

Scope Art Show

Volta

School of American Ballet winter ball

Playground Partners Winter Luncheon

American Red Cross Gala

April

Bloomberg Wealth Summit

The Winter Show

Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala

Tribeca Film Festival

47th Chaplin Award Gala

Save Venice Masquerade Ball

New York International Auto show

May

Frieze New York

TEFAF New York Spring

NYCxDESIGN Festival

New York City Ballet Spring Gala

Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon

Spring Symposium & Luncheon

Met Gala

Hot Pink Party

High Line Spring Benefit

June

MoMA Party in the Garden

American Ballet Theatre Fall Gala

Belmont Stakes

Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma

The Conservatory Ball

Museum Mile Festival

July

Vail International Dance Festival

Glimmerglass Festival

Jon Harari’s Annual Summer Party

August

Angel Ball

Jon Harari’s Annual Yacht Party

Guild Hall Summer Gala

US Open Tennis

September

US Open Tennis

The Armory Show

New York Fashion Week Spring-Summer

High Line Art Dinner

New York Film Festival

October

New York City Wine & Food Festival

The Robin Hood Foundation Annual Benefit

Great Sports Legends Dinner

Frick Collection Autumn Dinner (membership required)

November

The Art Show

PCF New York Dinner

Guggenheim International Gala

Search and Care Yorkville Ball

December

New York Philharmonic annual December Gala

Jon Harari’s Annual Holiday Party

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Xdesign conf

Xdesign conf how to#

Xdesign conf download#

This day will be aimed at senior design leaders sharing what it means to be a business executive, who is accountable for a design capability and helping their organisations mature how they leverage design.

Xdesign conf how to#

This track is for Design practitioners who have technical design skills but wish to develop practical business frameworks and soft skills which help them present their designs confidently in a business context.ĭay 2 This day will welcome team Directors/Leads/Heads of/managers to share stories of their personal success in leveraging business skills to amplify Design’s impact: ‘hacking’ business strategies, sharing the design mindset within other disciplines (sales/engineering etc) and understanding how to plan with and lead your team in this context.ĭay 3 Dedicated to redefining what it means to “scale design”, we want to move away from a discussion of ‘scaling teams’ and instead, focus on how we scale the value of design to the business. The conference will conclude with a workshop day where, together with industry leaders, you will apply practical business frameworks to your business settings.ĭay 1 Introducing business frameworks to start amplifying the potential of their design skills within the business setting. xAdmin stores configuration details in the xPression database. Over three days, we will follow the evolving business maturity of the designer, as they move from senior practitioner through to leader and how it changes the expectations of the role. provides a document packaging tool called xDesign for combining complex, hierarchical. Heal With Hope - A mobile app aiming to provide systematic support to caregivers of the most vulnerable children, between the age group of 4 to 14 years, in times of urgency and otherwise. Speaker highlights for the xDesign conference include interdisciplinary leaders and designers including. xDesign, the owner-operated digital development partner based in Scotland and across the UK, has signed a multi-year partnership with sports gaming platform FanDuel. The 6 th International DRS EdSIG Conference on Design Education, LEARN x DESIGN 2021 was held in September 2021, hosted by Shandong university of Art & Design, China. Although these situations are tragic and have adverse effects, they present an opportunity to build sustainable mental health systems for all people in need. Now more than ever, we live our daily lives through not just one but multiple and blended realities. The second annual By Design conference will focus on the collaborative relationship between business leaders & creative directors. The nature of this event is to amplify the impact of design as a core capability of business, and design’s responsibility to demonstrate its contribution to both business and human outcomes. RealityxDesign, the ninth annual conference from HarvardxDesign, will be hosted virtually 10:30am-4:30pm ET on Sunday, February 28, 2021.

Xdesign conf download#

Welcome to the first edition of Business X Design Conference! Download the official NYCxDESIGN Festival Guide by Metropolis Magazine, and dont forget to pick up a copy at select Festival events.

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MOD DESIGN: GO-GO AGE at nycxdesign

MOD DESIGN: GO-GO AGE at nycxdesign

Dahling, how fabulous is this seating arrangement? Launching his new capsule with nycxdesign, Designer Kouros Maghsoudi flaunts a dose of liberation and inspiration from the 1960s Space Age design movement. Go-Go Furniture exhibition hits a climax at NYCxDESIGN Festival. MOD DESIGN: GO-GO AGE at nycxdesign written by Sarah Annette. Fashion Daily Mag Lifestyle Editor :  Brigitte Segura @…

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New York is alive with design. We’re in the midst of @NYCXDesign Festival and @ICFF_official – Design leaders, influencers and innovators are all here, all over the city filling it with fresh looks and ideas.

#design @innovative #creative #fashion #furniture #nyc #ideas

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10th annual NYCxDESIGN Festival is sure to inspire

The tenth annual NYCxDESIGN Festival will run May 10-20 this year, attracting thousands of creative folks to New York City. Expect design fairs, group exhibitions, and consulates organizing events to celebrate innovations of international designers. A city council initiative first established NYCxDESIGN in 2012. Officials decided to hold the event in May to build on the success of already well known NYC design events, such as ICFF and WantedDesign. Last year’s festival was held in November (thanks,... from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://ift.tt/zlYwHTa

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NYCxDESIGN | Inaugural Benefit Auction 2022 We are you honored to be not only included but the cover images for this Artsy and @nycxdesign launch! Bidding has started and please please link to check out all the outstanding art works for acquisition here. We are excited to launch NYCxDESIGN’s Benefit Auction, coinciding with the NYCxDESIGN 10th Anniversary Festival and curated by Interior Design Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen. @interiordesignmag @thecindygram Featuring works from leading creatives that are embedded in NYC’s design scene, emerging designers, and collectible artists, there’s something for everyone. Support NYCxDESIGN by bidding on works from designers and artists in the inaugural Benefit Auction. Learn more about the 2022 Festival taking place this May 10-20 here. Proceeds from the Auction enable NYCxDESIGN’s non-profit work to create more equitable opportunities in design, provide platforms to promote important work, foster a diverse next generation of designers, and define the future of design locally and internationally. Bidding will be open exclusively on Artsy and will start closing at 12:00 pm EDT on Friday, May 20, 2022. (at ESQUE STUDIO) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdOrJP6vwoQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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FILTER Times Square pavilion New York City

FILTER Times Square pavilion New York City, EMIT NYCxDesign Festival, Manhattan Architecture

FILTER Times Square pavilion New York

April 28, 2022

CLB Architects and EMIT present FILTER at Design Pavilion / NYCxDesign Festival

The steel and wood pavilion will be on view in Times Square, NYC from May 7-15

Design: CLB Architects

Rendering of FILTER in the heart of Times Square, NYC: image : CLB Architects

New York, NY, April 26, 2022 –– Created for Design Pavilion and the NYCxDesign Festival, FILTER carves out space for quiet recentering within the frenetic energy of Times Square. Designed as both a monumental object and an ephemeral experience, the pavilion establishes a new node in the heart of New York City’s urban fabric – reorienting that experience toward the natural, rather than the man-made. Evoking the rugged Wyoming landscape from which it originates, FILTER draws the visitor into an engagement of its flowing folds of weathered steel and timber. At the pavilion’s center, a lone tree embodies the ecological cycles and serves as a counterpoint to the Manhattan’s urbanity.

Designed by CLB Architects, the pavilion’s chapel-like design facilitates a new understanding of place, providing each occupant the chance to explore their own relationship with the natural world. The structure’s concept began as a simple diagram – a folded sheet of paper, carefully sliced, and able to stand on its own. Eric Logan, Partner at CLB, translated this exercise into full-scale existence through a design composed of a series of standard-sized, half-inch hot-rolled steel plates, or “chaps,” arranged to form a 24-foot diameter, 20-foot-tall ellipsoid.

FILTER, located between West 46th and 47th Streets at Times Square, appears to be a foreign object. Fluid shards of naturally-weathered steel invite close inspection, and a gentle ramp leads around the perimeter, offering views of the space held within. The noise, bustling crowds, and glaring lights of the city are filtered out, and the newly-centered visitor is left in solitude, inhabiting the urban “pause.” As Logan explains, the structure presents “an offering, it [FILTER] changes the environment and creates its own.” A bench of reclaimed fir offcuts is folded into the interior, encircling a live, 20-foot-tall tree. The tree’s dense canopy only partially obscures the sky beyond, inviting occupants to look upward and lose themselves in contemplation.

Each element of the structure was designed with attention to its sustainability, portability, and longevity, beyond the duration of the NYCxDesign installation. EMIT, based in Sheridan, Wyoming, is responsible for the steel prefabrication and is the exhibit patron. The steel was weathered to develop a protective rust patina evocative of the Rocky Mountain West. The lightly-charred and textured timber elements were crafted from salvaged Glulam beams by Spearhead, sustainable wood technologists based in British Columbia.

These systematized and structurally self-supporting components were first sent to Greeley, Colorado for test assembly, and then disassembled and shipped to New York City to be erected by New York-based contractors Dowbuilt. Utah-based Helius oversaw lighting design, incorporating fixtures by B-K Lighting and coordinating with New York-based contractors Apollo Electric. An organic Exclamation Plane tree, donated by Raemelton Farm in Adamstown, Maryland, completes the design.

Following the closure of the NYCxDesign festival, the tree will be donated to the New York City non-profit The Battery Conservancy, and the pavilion will be carefully disassembled and transported back to Wyoming to continue its life as a public sculpture at EMIT’s headquarters and enjoyed for generations to come. When it completes its cycle and reaches its final resting point in Sheridan, FILTER’s patina will reflect the accumulations of both dry western air and East Coast salinity. Forging connections across geography and intimately centered on occupant experience, FILTER makes a place of its own.

Free and open to the public, FILTER will be open daily, May 7-15, 2022, from 11:00am – 9:00pm.

FILTER Times Square pavilion New York City – Building Information

FILTER Project Team / Sponsors CLB Architects (Architect) EMIT (Exhibit Patron, Steel Supplier and Fabricator) Spearhead (Wood Supplier and Wood Fabricator) Dowbuilt (Builder) KL&A, Inc. (Structural Engineer)

HELIUS (Lighting Designer) B-K Lighting (Light Fixture Provider) Raemelton Farm (Tree Provider) Apollo Electric (Lighting Contractor)

CLB Architects

CLB is an architecture and interior design firm based in the Rocky Mountain West, and specializing in the design of residential, commercial, and arts related projects. Since the firm’s founding 30 years ago in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, CLB has evolved to now encompass projects across the United States.

Each endeavor is guided with the firm’s philosophy – inspired by place. With offices in Jackson, Wyoming and Bozeman, Montana, the firm has grown to a staff of 50, led by partners Eric Logan, Kevin Burke, Andy Ankeny and Darcey Prichard. The firm’s work has recently been documented in the book, Inspired by Place, which was published by ORO Editions. www.clbarchitects.com

EMIT

EMIT Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000 and from the beginning, set out to design, engineer, think critically, work their tails off and most importantly, build! With facilities in Sheridan, Wyoming and Greeley, Colorado, EMIT produces a high mix of solutions leveraging their Material Processing, Fabrication, Coatings and Mechanical/Electronics Assembly talents that carry to multiple industries. They build Catalytic Converters, Commercial Buildings, Conveyor Systems, Engine Control Systems, Automotive Accessories and so much more. https://ift.tt/6elmEdo

Design Pavilion

Design Pavilion is New York’s Premier Public Design Exhibition, showcasing exciting and important design innovations about our future to a mass audience of millions including local businesses, design industry professionals, and local and international consumers.

Design Pavilion is host to a series of experiential installations featuring established and emerging designers, architects, brands, and visionaries from around the world. Their messages on the future are further supported by more in-depth discussion by thought leaders at the Design Talks NOW. www.design-pavilion.com

NYCxDESIGN

NYCxDESIGN is a not-for-profit organization committed to empowering and promoting the city’s diverse creative community. NYCxDESIGN organizes exceptional year-round programming, including its annual international festival.

At NYCxDESIGN, our mission is to support, empower, and grow the city’s incredible design sector. The festival attracts 300,000+ national and international visitors to the city, generating significant economic activity across the boroughs with hundreds of events about design and innovation, creativity, culture, inclusivity, sustainability, and resiliency. Diversity, purpose, cultural placemaking, economic opportunity, and creativity are core to the not-for-profit’s values. www.nycxdesign.com

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From Middle Earth to Times Square

From 18–22 May, Times Square New York, USA, played host to the centrepiece of the NYCxDESIGN festival – a 4.2 metre high, 39.5 square metre walk-though ‘touch and see’ experiential installation from Kaynemaile, New Zealand. The installation was made up of the company’s chain mail product, and visitors were encouraged to move and interact with the mail.

Kaynemaile was created on the set of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy while founder Kayne Horsham was supplying the actors with chain mail for their costumes. Horsham wanted to find a way to overcome the tedious labour of hand-weaving chain mail, and did so six years after the shoot by creating an injection moulding process to mass-produce polycarbonate chain mail.

Credit all images: Kaynemaile

The mail can be made in a variety of colours and be fine-tuned to the customers’ request. The company has provided custom solutions for MGM, Samsung and Auckland University for display purposes or as part of building design.

The Times Square installation won the NYCxDESIGN best new architectural product award for 2017, and Horsham is currently working on another New York project for later in the year with American artist and MacArthur fellow Ned Kahn, who also contributed to the Times Square exhibit.

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Anish Kapoor’s Descension at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Artist Anish Kapoor‘s Descension – one of artist’s most viscerally arresting installations – has been unveiled in Brooklyn Bridge Park, marking the official launch of New York’s annual NYCxDesign festival. see more

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America’s design community comes into its own

A heated plagiarism scandal that rocked design discourse, a splashy return to 1970s maximalism, and independent design came out on top. With New York City’s annual NYCxDesign festival now officially concluded, these are just some of the lasting impressions from two weeks that were chock full of events, launches, and installations.

Held less than a month after Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile—the world’s largest and longest-standing trade show dedicated to furniture and product design—NYCxDesign is our most comparable stateside counterpart, with several fairs and countless pop-up events spanning the city’s five boroughs. Yet despite the fact that New York is home to a higher density of design professionals than anywhere else in the country, NYCxDesign has often been regarded as an afterthought to industry insiders: Larger brands and furniture houses will often present the same collections just previewed in Milan, and often with activations much less grand than those presented abroad. (It’s hard to compete when Milanese pop-up venues are often ornate, centuries-old palazzos, open to the public just for the occasion.) What’s more, NYCxDesign has rarely been able to contain itself to a single, tidy week—last year, it ballooned to span nearly the entire month of May, making it a marathon event that might dissuade international visitors from being able to take the whole spectrum of events in a single visit.

[Photo: courtesy Jumbo]

All of those factors, however, also give NYCxDesign some distinct advantages: There’s no shortage of homegrown talent, and with the high cost of attending and exhibiting abroad, many local designers opt to go all in on their home turf. With cross-disciplinary collaborations, spirited debates, and a host of openings celebrating independent work, this year convinced us that American design may have finally, refreshingly, come into its own as a platform where designers can speak to a broader audience. This year’s edition of NYCxDesign genuinely felt like a cultural event, more akin to fashion week or a film festival than a staid trade show. Read on for our top five takeaways.

Egg Collective, Designing Women II.  [Photo: Egg Collective]

Rise of the designer-curator

In the age of social media, are any of us not curators? This year saw a surge in a particular breed of multi-hyphenate—the designer-as-curator-and-exhibitor—with a number of independently organized group exhibitions in a show of tight-knit community. Last year, in the jarring wake of Trump’s presidential election, the all-women design trio of Egg Collective mounted a show of work by women designers in their downtown showroom, in a positive and constructive flex of dissent against the state of affairs. As a follow-up to the widely lauded effort, this year they teamed with Lora Appleton of Kindermodern on Designing Women II: Masters, Mavericks, and Mavens, featuring an international and cross-generational mix of mixed-media works by Nicola L., Mimi Jung, Mira Nakashima, Bari Ziperstein, and more.

Egg Collective, Designing Women II.  [Photo: Egg Collective]

Eskayel, Next Level [Photo: courtesy Eskayel]

Manhattan was particularly hard-hit by the decline of brick-and-mortar retail this past year, with a string of closures in previously high-trafficked districts—look to the formerly boutique-packed stretch of Bleecker Street in the West Village for a prime example of how digital-first commerce has affected neighborhood streets IRL. The vacant storefronts are signs of a changing industry, and for some designers, a serendipitous boon. At a former Superdry clothing store on Broadway—one of several vacancies on the main thoroughfare in Greenwich Village—several studios banded together to present Next Level, a group show of work by their peers and friends, partly looking to channel the cultural fervor that completely overtakes Milan during their design week.

“[Eskayel] exhibited at Salone for the first time ever this past year, and it really opened my eyes as to what was possible,” said Nick Chacona, a partner at the Brooklyn rug studio Eskayel, one of the show’s organizers. “Events are so integrated into the city there, and we wanted to bring some of that approach here to New York.”

In East Williamsburg, the tongue-in-cheek design collective Jonald Dudd (no, that’s not a typo) curated Return of the Living Dudd, a group show housed in a recently abandoned, half-gutted 99 cent storefront. Framed as a “platform for dissenting objects,” it was easily the wackiest batch of works to surface all week—ranging from vessels with live-oozing goop in swirling shades of pink and green, to a seatless chair made of square bathroom tile—all placed in a collage-like disarray upon a swooping, cobalt-blue carpeted backdrop that evoked an appropriately internet-bred aesthetic. As the curators Lydia Cambron and Chris Held held forth: “Punx not dead.”

Jonald Dudd, Return of the Living Dudd. [Photo: Jason Mandella]

Their DIY ethos was a refreshing counterpoint to the hallowed halls of Jacob J. Javits Center—home to ICFF, the longstanding trade show anchor to NYCxDesign—and gave the corporate approach a run for its money. New York’s new class of designer-curator-whatever brought out some of the most compelling work of the festival.

Camille Walala [Photo: courtesy Industry City]

Fashion, design, and internet culture collide

Chunky geometries, tubular forms, furry surfaces, and supergraphic patterns were all out in droves this year. It was a signal that 1970s maximalism and a fashion-influenced approach to interiors are still driving many independent designers. Was a secret memo circulated to all of the cool young makers, or has the Internet given birth to a globalized ur-aesthetic? Seen at the various booths of design fairs WantedDesign, ICFF, and Sight Unseen alike, it stood up alongside the enduring popularity of midcentury and Scandinavian modern design. Seemingly more concerned with form than comfort or function, many of these works channeled an approach to furniture and interiors driven by fashion.

Kamarq [Photo: Travis Chantar/courtesy Kamarq]

The idea of how fashionable trends spread, particularly in our internet-driven society, became a topic of heated debate after Kamarq, a Japanese startup aspiring to be the “Netflix of furniture,” was forced to cancel its debut collection within hours of its launch, after copycat claims on Instagram went viral overnight. The designers of the collection, fashion personality and former Lady Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti, and PJ Mattan, a consultant behind brands like Hem and Bezar—neither of whom had previously ever designed furniture, and extolled the idea of a “fast fashion” approach to home interiors—suggested their tube-and-slab forms were so basic so as to allude authorship, while many others (including this writer) saw undeniable likenesses to a 2015 Matter collection by independent designer Ana Kras. The Wing cofounder Audrey Gelman, artist Katie Stout, musician Dev Hynes, and Hem founder Petrus Palmer were among the many creatives who commented to weigh in on the controversial topic that, fittingly, cemented Kamarq as a “fast fashion” brand indeed.

Vitra+Akris+Alexander Girard [Photo: courtesy Akris]

In general, the fashion world played a significantly direct influence in NYCxDesign this year, with trendy downtown boutiques Philip Lim, Creatures of Comfort, and Opening Ceremony among the many fashion fixtures that teamed up with local furniture designers as part of Sight Unseen‘s curatorial project Field Studies, which paired creatives across various disciplines to produce unique one-off pieces, with proceeds going to a range of charitable causes. Even the big brands got cuddly with the fashion world: Swiss furniture juggernaut Vitra launched a series of dresses and skirts with Akris, featuring iconic patterns by the legendary midcentury textile designer Alexander Girard.

Retrosuperfuture, Slash Objects [Photo: Sean Santiago]

The ecological imperative

The model of a circular economy—by which resources and materials are continually circulated, from by-product to manufacture, in order to drastically reduce waste—has been simmering within critical design discourse for the past several years. And while such thinking has begun to infiltrate even Milan’s luxury-focused design week, it emerged in top billing at NYCxDesign, where some of the most highly attended projects applied the progressive model toward working proofs of concept.

Kim Markel + Glossier [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

At the sunglasses shop Retrosuperfuture, architect-designer Arielle Assouline-Lichten of Slash Objects presented an installation inspired by traditional Japanese rock gardens, but traded stone for rubble-like mounds of shredded tires and recycled rubber. Designer Kim Markel, who often works with discarded plastic bottles to mold translucent, candy-like creations, paired with cosmetics brand Glossier to create a luscious armoire with pink-tinted panels made from the company’s packaging, saved and collected for months by its employees. For her spindly side tables, she lathes spun stone dust, the powdery composite waste left behind from stone cutting. And in Brooklyn, the MINI-backed design incubator A/D/O continued its recently launched, year-long program tackling the global clean drinking water crisis.

Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Zero-Waste Bistro. [Photo: Nicholas Calcott]

Communal dining proved to be the basis of a winning engagement at WantedDesign Manhattan, a smaller trade show of international exhibitors, where the Finnish Cultural Institute of New York hosted a working pop-up cafe called the Zero-Waste Bistro (full disclosure: this writer will be participating in a program with FCINY this year). Designed and built entirely with recycled materials, it also served a revolving tasting menu of delectable, prix-fixe meals minimizing scrap food waste, with dishes like coconut husk ice cream and chopped asparagus salad, from the chefs of the Helsinki-based concept restaurant Nolla. The project was co-curated by Harri Koskinen and Linda Bergroth, who also designed the space using recycled and compressed Just water bottles and TetraPak waste to dazzling effect, like a pointillist tableau or digital rendering made real. The pop-up bistro was, above all, a tasty sight and experience to behold. The future of design must be ecological, that much is sure—and, as the event’s sold-out seatings proved, style and taste need not go by the wayside to achieve an environmentally responsible outcome.

Coil+Drift, Home Unimprov. [Photo: Sean Davidson]

The performative power of objects

The demands of maintaining a creative practice in a highly digital, politically asinine time is not an easy task—which may be why many designers also took to physical works to explore performative and expressive narratives. While also exhibiting at ICFF as part of the curated Collective Concept presentation, Brooklyn-based designer John Sorensen-Jolink of Coil+Drift—a former dancer turned furniture and lighting maker—presented Home Unimprov at a Soho gallery. Bringing both sides of his work together, the show explored our bodily relationship to designed environments, combining live choreography and short films centered around a trio of conceptual chair designs.

Colony, Balance/Unbalance. [Photo: Alan Tansey]

Over at Colony, an independent design cooperative in Chinatown, founder and curator Jean Lin presented works by Fort Standard, Meg Callahan, Moving Mountains, and more, under the overarching theme of Balance/Imbalance, both physically and sensorially, through color, form, materiality, shape, and even sound. “Perfect balance is a lie, but magic can be found in the space between balance and imbalance,” says Lin, who last year organized a show around the theme of lightness, in response to the tumultuous and heavy American political landscape.

Kosmos Project, Future Illusions. [Photo: courtesy Kosmos Project]

At WantedDesign Manhattan, Polish design studio Kosmos Project presented Future Illusions, a collection of illustrative landscape rugs inspired by video games, complete with a participatory, choose-your-own-adventure element. The designs can be purchased as-is, or uniquely customized through a series of personality quiz-type questions that algorithmically generate a unique variation on a theme. The overall concept, the designers said, was to show both sides of the coin when it comes to big data–and ultimately make viewers more aware of their consequential choices.

The Principals + Ashley Olson [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

Toying with tech

While big consumer tech brands made a splashy arrival to Milan‘s traditionally furniture and interiors-focused design week last month—with high-profile activations from Google Home, to Sonos and even Instagram—in New York, technology found its way into design show with a decidedly more homegrown and experimental slant.

The Principals + Ashley Olson [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

At Sight Unseen’s highly curated satellite show of emerging talents, Drew Seskunas of The Principals teamed with musician Ashley Olsen to create a custom 3D printer. Sound waves of the singer’s voice were translated into physically rendered wax forms, which were then used to mold aluminum candlesticks—rigorously traversing from immaterial to material, it was an undeniably engaging experiment: call it design synesthesia. Hailing from Warsaw, UAU Project exhibited a more market-friendly approach to 3D-printed wares, with a colorful range of lights and small tabletop objects made from a reused corn byproduct. They were available for cash-and-carry, or, for a reduced price, as a digital file compatible with any desktop 3D printer.

Rich Brilliant Willing [Photo: courtesy Rich Brilliant Willing]

Darlings of the hospitality and contract market, lighting studio Rich Brilliant Willing wowed with a series of conceptual, working prototypes exploring the new formal possibilities of OLED technology and 3D-knit textiles. The team took a minimal, sculptural approach to thin, pliable strips of OLED, which read more like ambient surfaces or screens. Unlike traditional bulbs or LED diodes, partner Theo Richardson explained, OLEDs naturally emit soft, diffuse light—meaning no shade or additional element is required. Instead, the studio added its first experimentation with 3D-knit textiles into the mix, sheathing each of the OLED strips—molded and hanged to gently bend by the weight of its own heft—with translucent, graphic-patterned sleeves.

Design Within Reach, Hands at Work. [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

Not all young designers embraced new-fangled technology; some even eschewed it the name of mindfulness. At Hands to Work, the third edition of Furnishing Utopia, a now-annual group show sponsored by Design Within Reach, dozens of designers were commissioned to develop simple, useful items and tools with an intent to engage and transcend the tradition of Shaker design. The overall vibe was gleefully analog, as visitors were invited to engage in “sensory isolation,” and left to their devices in an all-white room containing only a tidy tray of gravel and an immaculately designed dustpan and brush. Among the wares displayed on the main exhibition floor: a wheeled planter by Jamie Wolfond, a basket bound with cable ties by Shigeki Fujishiro, and a wooden dish rack by Studio Tolvanen.

Hands to Work exhibit featuring @patkimpatkim Roomba cover that brings a new sense of life to robotic machines. Shot by @charlieschuck, styled by @natashafelker, creative direction by @ladiesandgentlemenstudio / also thanks to special support from @designwithinreach @norwaynewyork @_sightunseen_ / May 22 is the the last day to see the exhibit/ 158 Mercer, 9am-5pm #furnishingutopia #handstoworkexhibit #dwrxutopia

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All conveyed a cheerful attitude to hand labor and daily chores, with the exception of a tongue-in-cheek piece by designer Pat Kim: a handsome cherry wood casing for an automated Roomba vacuum, which amused visitors as it made the rounds and reminded us that not all labor is sacred.

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NYCxDesign: Why all-female shows are popping up all over New York

New York (CNN)On the tails of Milan's massive design week in April, New York City's citywide festival of design, NYCxDesign -- which runs through May 24 -- kicked off with a spate of shows giving voice to female talent in an industry that remains notoriously male-dominated.

"I feel like this is happening a lot now. People are organizing themselves everywhere," said Hilda Hellstrm, a sculptor and co-founder of Den Nya Kvinnogruppen (The New Women's Group), an all-female artists' collective in her native Sweden.

A 'Room' of one's own

This month, Hellstrom is displaying her work, alongside 20 other women artists and designers, at "Room With Its Own Rules" (through July 15), the last in a series of four shows curated by Matylda Krzykowski at New York's Chamber gallery.

The prospect of organizing the final show centered on women artists and designers, Krzykowski says, rose from an undeniable sense of necessity.

"The goal is to influence and make people aware and consider the imbalances that still persist, but not forcefully," she said, noting that the rosters of many of the design world's top companies and galleries still comprise mostly men.

"We just have to give more space to women, and then naturally the space will be shared more democratically. In the end, we hold all the potential. It's just a matter of redistributing visibility."

While Krzykowski's first three installations were inspired by "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?" -- a 1956 collage and commentary on postwar consumer culture by Richard Hamilton -- "Room With Its Own Rules" stems from Hamilton's 1992 update to that piece, in which an image of a male bodybuilder has been replaced by a woman of color.

It struck Krzykowski as a sort of "sociological report" and promise for progress in the creative world that has largely remained unfulfilled, and thus ripe for examination.

Diversity over protest

But If "Room With Its Own Rules" offers any statement about female creativity, Krzykowski suggests it is one that defies singularity, and instead imagines a post-patriarchal society in which an all-female show is neither necessary nor seen as progressive.

It's not a show of protest or empowerment, she says, but simply a show featuring "21 different women, with 21 different narratives," an international, multi-generational portrait of creativity in a given time.

Still, Kryzkowski's heady approach begs the question: How have women moved forward in the design world, and what challenges remain?

"I would prefer if we didn't need to have all-female shows, but I will be a part of them until we don't need to have them anymore," said artist Katie Stout, who created an oversize, pink fiberglass-and-resin table, cheekily titled the "Executive Wage Gap Desk," for the installation.

"I feel very lucky that I get to do what I want to do," she adds.

In the last year alone, Stout has shown globally at fairs including Design Miami and the Venice Biennale.

"Of course there are challenges, and sometimes it's hard to know if things are harder because I'm a woman. Obviously, I'm unaware of opportunities I haven't been given because I wasn't given them, but sometimes I do wonder about that."

An unstoppable force

Designer Lindsey Adelman, who has achieved a level of renown both Stateside and abroad with her sculptural, bauble fixtures, says she can't recall an occasion in which she's exhibited in a show without men, but welcomes the rising momentum in the city.

"It's a force that's unstoppable," said Adelman. "Now that we all know who each other are -- a lot of us have followed one another's work, but hadn't met -- we know that the other women are out there, each doing their thing. It gives you so much confidence."

For others, such as Johanna Grawunder -- an architect-designer who worked with Italian master Ettore Sottsass for a number of years -- all-female shows have not always provided an apt venue for empowerment.

"I've never wanted to do all-women shows because it almost felt like being placed in a ghetto. It never felt like an honor, but more of a sideline," she said.

However, she feels optimistic by the strain of feminism presented by Krzykowski and younger generations: "When Matylda wrote me, her approach about so much more than just being a woman. In fact, I didn't even realize it was an all-female show until quite a ways into it."

Egg Collective

Downtown at its Soho showroom, the independent design studio Egg Collective presents another stellar show of works by an entirely female cast.

"Designing Women" (through May 26) features works by 16 New York-based female artists and designers, including fiber pieces by Dana Barnes, hanging tassel pendants by lighting designer Bec Brittain, and a rust velvet chaise by Syrette Lew of Moving Mountains.

Twenty percent of sales from each piece will benefit Girls Inc., a nonprofit whose mission advocates gender equality and increased opportunities for women.

"It's hard when we have someone leading our country who is able to normalize talk about women that shouldn't be normalized," said Egg Collective co-founder Hillary Petrie, who was inspired to organize the exhibition after the Women's Marches that followed President Trump's inauguration.

"It almost feels like we're being pushed back, and we don't want that to happen. There's also a need to redefine the language and not be put into a box of feminist design, or having to say 'This is done by a female.' In fact, it's just design."

A number of museum exhibitions are also underlining a spectrum of female creativity.

At the Museum of Modern Art, "Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction" spotlights female artists from the midcentury.

Uptown, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum -- itself founded by women -- proudly displays a gallery of permanent-collection works guest-curated by comedian and design devotee Ellen DeGeneres.

At the Brooklyn Museum, "A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum" commemorates the 10th anniversary of its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art with a year-long series of shows, including a monographic presentation on painter Georgia O'Keefe (through July 23).

Call it political synergy, or a collective clapback to the polarizing political administration, but one thing is for certain: All is not well in the state of current American politics, and New York's creative community is standing up to support underrepresented voices in art and design.

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