Dezeen Music Project: call out for new tracks to play in New York

Dezeen Music Project

Calling all musicians! Dezeen Music Project is looking for original tracks to play at new design show INTRO NY in New York next week, where we’re providing the sounds. If you’re a musician, composer, DJ or producer, we want to hear your best party music.

INTRO NY runs from 18-20 May during ICFF and NYCxDesign and we’ll be playing a selection of our favourite Dezeen Music Project tracks from 5-8pm every evening.

If you would like us to include your music in our set, all you have to do is upload your tracks to our Soundcloud account and we’ll pick out our favourites. Make sure you change the sharing settings for uploaded tracks from private to public and make them available to download.

If you don’t have a Soundcloud account you can email tracks to musicproject@dezeen.com instead.

We’re happy to feature music of all different genres, but for this event we’re looking for upbeat tracks to get people in the party spirit.

As always, we’ll publish selected tracks on our Dezeen Music Project blog and feature them in the audio player in the right-hand column of the Dezeen home page.

The copyright of any tracks submitted will remain with the artist, who will always be fully credited. See the full copyright notice here.

Dezeen Music Project is a Dezeen initiative to promote new, original music by young and upcoming musicians. Listen to all the tracks here.

INTRO NY is new furniture show organised by design agent smallpond and supported by exhibition organiser designjunction. You can find out more information here.

Dezeen Music Project at INTRO NY
379 Broome Street
New York
NY 10013

18-20 May 2013
5-8pm

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3D printing and digital design lead ICFF 2013 programme

3D printing workshops lead ICFF 2013 programme

News: next month’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York will be the first major design fair to place 3D printing and digital fabrication at the core of its programme, with a four-day series of workshops introducing the hardware and software that could change the face of design, manufacturing and distribution (+ interview).

DesignX, which takes place from 18 to 21 May alongside ICFF, will comprise 15 one and two-hour workshops on topics including 3D printing, online product customisation, parametric design and even 4D printing – the nascent technology of programming materials capable of self-assembly.

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“At […] these trade shows, you typically have a very large audience who attend over multiple days,” explains Ronnie Parsons, a 3D printing expert from New York studio Mode Collective, who will lead the event’s 3D printing workshops with design partner Gil Akos. “There are talks that address design and technology, but there really isn’t anything that allows people to have direct access to industry leaders through an educational programming model.

“So we thought, why don’t we have a specially built classroom, a lounge space with a little gallery, and put that in the middle of the showroom floor and do educational programming throughout the course of the entire trade show? So that people who attend ICFF could take classes in the very tools and technology that are used to make the things that are surrounding them at the event.”

3D printing workshops lead ICFF 2013 programme

Partnering with The Architect’s Newspaper, Parsons and Akos have put together a programme of workshops led by experts from across the digital design and manufacturing industry, including MIT architecture and programming lecturer Skylar Tibbits, Duann Scott of 3D printing marketplace Shapeways, programmers Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg from Massachusetts design studio Nervous System, and Francis Bitonti, whose 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese we previously featured on Dezeen.

Other DesignX workshops will include programmer Andy Payne’s introduction to using Arduino microcontrollers to control design environments, a look at the networked future of computer-aided design, and a session about online marketplaces for distributed manufacturing.

3D printing workshops lead ICFF 2013 programme
Ronnie Parsons of DesignX organisers Mode Collective

“3D printing is the thing that is most visible right now, that’s the thing that is most at the surface,” says Parsons. “But I think that the skill that is really important for designers in the future is not really 3D printing, but actually the processes of thinking through the design to production phase – beginning to think about how things are made and how the new tools and technology out there will change the way you think about design.”

Attendees can sign up for any number of workshops individually, but must already be registered to attend ICFF.

This month Dezeen launched Print Shift, a one-off print-on-demand magazine dedicated exploring the fast-changing world of 3D printing and the way the new technology is changing the worlds of architecture and design – see all our coverage of 3D printing.

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Design Week Pop-Up Shops

Nice finds from an array of stores cropping up during ICFF

Design fans in town for ICFF can take a slice of the festivities home with them this year, thanks to an exciting array of shops popping up around NYC this weekend in conjunction with the main furniture fair. Whether you’re into the custom-crafted, meat-inspired balloons at Japan Premium Beef or want the latest from your favorite designer at The Future Perfect, there will be no shortage of intriguing goods to choose from.

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iGet.it at Wanted Design

Montreal-based member’s only design site iGet.it will make their US debut with a brick-and-mortar shop at Wanted Design. The store will sell a variety of items culled from their online offerings, as well as exclusive products commissioned specially for the iGet.it at Wanted Design pop-up like the Sleepy Lamp by Busso and Shonquis Moreno’s Fabrik Silk Scarf.
Located at 269 11th Avenue.

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The $99 Store

Rising experimental design duo Chen Chen and Kai Williams return home from their “Factory” installation in Brazil with a brilliant take on the classic dollar shop. The $99 Store will stock an assortment of their signature resin works in addition to their new plastic block necklaces.
Located at 22 Bond Street.

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The Future Perfect Manhattan Satellite

NYC’s revered design shop The Future Perfect has so much up their sleeve they’ve created a second Manhattan location during Design Week. The temporary location will house a nationally exclusive range of furniture from Piet Hein Eek, a host of affordable items selected by The Art Institute of Chicago and new works from Matthew Hilton, Lindsay Adelman and Donna Wilson for SCP.
Located at 2 Cooper Square.

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Fab + FLOR

Members only design site Fab tapped Belgian designers Quinze & Milan to fill FLOR with a colorful burst of over items for its first physical shop. Expect to see everything from bright red piggybanks from Ladies & Gentlemen Studio to shiny orange Hideo Wakamatsu suitcases in this vast array of covetable goods.

Located at 142 Wooster Street.

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All City All Stars

Online design magazine Core77 has created an ode to NYC with All City All Stars, a pop up offering creative wares from 35 designers across the city’s five boroughs. The enticing lineup includes Rich Brilliant Willing, Uhuru Design, Kiel Mead, Talitha James, Harry Allen and more.

350 Bowery at Great Jones Street

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Balloon Factory at Japan Premium Beef

Popping up at Great Jones butcher shop Japan Premium Beef is Chicago-based Balloon Factory, who will be handmaking beef-inspired latex balloons in shapes like various cuts of meat. Pick up a porterhouse, flank, filet mignon, t-bone or variously sized sausages and see how the crafty team constructs such an intriguing take on the ubiquitous balloon.

Located at 57 Great Jones Street.


SCALE at Noho Design District

A Cool Hunting, Architizer and Dwell collaboration celebrating the newest in architectural design
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For this year’s Noho Design District, part of New York’s Design Week, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Architizer and Dwell to present SCALE, a collection of objects and prototypes that explore the relationship of furniture and architecture.

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Architects have been known to use furniture as a prototyping method for their creations and with this as our starting point we’ve collected works from architects and designers—some at the top of their game, others just starting out—including Snarkitecture, Bec Brittain, Katie Stout, Seth Keller, Studio DROR, Kiel Mead, Thaddeus Wolfe and more. From Jason Payne’s “Disco Ball” for Hirsuta to the process-driven “Sprue” candelabras by Fort Standard, we think the final collection captures some of the most interesting intersections of architecture and design today.

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SCALE
Friday 18 – Sunday 21 May 2012
12 Noon to 7:00 p.m. daily
The Standard East Village

And don’t forget to stop by the accompanying Sonos Listening Library while you’re there.


NYC Design Week 2011: Brilliant Lighting

Eight impressive lighting options that do more than illuminate

As we made the Design Week rounds recently in NYC, we found some brilliant examples of modern lighting. Below are eight lamps sure to add a flicker of stylish design to any home or office, culled from ICFF, Model Citizens, NoHo Design District and the Voos Lights Up SportMax exhibit.

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Esque and No.1 Son

A continuation of their (Bar)barian collaboration with No.1 Son, Esque’s gorgeous Afloat lamp combines meticulously mouthblown glass balls with finely crafted leather.

B.Light Design

Designer Ben Light’s clever Bourbon Jar Lamp perches an Edison bulb atop a turned oak wooden base, which has been carved from an old bourbon fermentation tank. When the bulb heats up, it emits the aroma of the sweet liquor.

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Bocci

Designed by Omer Arbel, Bocci’s 28 Series is a collection of chandeliers that each feature 28 distorted glass spheres, with low voltage or LED lamps housed inside each globe. The pendants are crafted using an intriguing technique in which air is blown in, sucked out and then intermittently heated and cooled for a slightly warped shape. We happened upon a more massive edition, beautifully hanging from a crane over the Bowery.

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Matt Gagnon

Los Angeles-based designer Matt Gagnon lit up the Future Perfect, handmaking over 40 of his Prototype Lamps in the storefront window of The Future Perfect. He makes each piece, an exploration in “scale, form, color, texture, material, pattern and more,” from fibers wound around a metal armature.

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Lindsey Adelman Studio

Blown by glass artist Michiko Sakano, Burst combines gold-coated glass spikes and a dizzying array of glass globes. The chandelier gorgeously demonstrates Adelman’s interest in marrying Wabi-Sabi with Modernism.

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Rich Brilliant Willing

Modeled after propulsion systems and rooftop vents, Rich Brilliant Willing’s new Delta IV pendant lamps boast a simple silhouette with gold or white interiors, designed to diffuse energy-efficient bulbs with a warm glow.

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UM Project

Clean, simple and upcycled from elegant Art Deco-era materials, UM Project’s new L.U.M. Lamp harbors three short Edison bulbs inside a polished copper, aluminum and satin brass shade, accented by a subtle burst of color.

Deger Cengiz

Deger Cengiz’s Wooden LED Light merges antique materials with modern lighting. A hardwood base bolsters copper piping for a sleekly industrial aesthetic.


Tools at Schools

The youth of today design a better classroom for tomorrow
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Introducing design to youngsters, a recent collaboration between a uniquely-structured private school and two design firms instills the value of reshaping the everyday objects that surround us. The NYC-based project called Tools at Schools brought together The School at Columbia University, an eclectic mix of faculty offspring and denizens of Harlem, furniture manufacturer Bernhardt Design and top-seeded designers from Aruliden to reinvent the classroom in a way that’s comfortable, pleasing and above all else utilitarian.

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That’s because Tools at Schools teaches that design is not just about aesthetics but about crafting everyday objects that work. Spending hours a day in class, these pupils are well-qualified to help improve the quality of life at school through design. The upshot is a furniture collection that includes ergonomic chairs and desks, which easily hold pens, pencils and books.

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“I used to think that design was really exotic and abstract,” wrote one student in an testimonial. “The first thing I would think of when I heard the word ‘design’ was fashion. It amazes me to think back and see how off I was.”

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The roughly four dozen students who participated learned the entire design and manufacturing process—from rough sketches, to 3D plans to shaping the first prototype. Being fully immersive allowed them to work with real-life materials and hone creative skills, teaching lessons in communication, art, mathematics and science in the process.

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After 25 weeks, the fruits of this student labor have moved beyond the classroom laboratory, debuting at ICFF last week and moving on to the Museum of Arts and Design in November 2011.


Aodh Furniture

Irish heritage tweeds in a debut line of elegant contemporary furniture

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Officially launched at ICFF last week, Dublin furniture company Aodh produces quiet, elegant design for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Their first true line, The Malt Collection, was born out of collaboration between German chair designer Tom Kelley and owner Garrett O’Hagan, who formerly imported contemporary furniture. With ecologically sound production processes and using only the finest materials, Aodh aims to work with equally passionate designers to create furniture that is “grounded in values close to Ireland’s heart: hospitality, warmth, conviviality and nature.”

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The Malt Collection consists of nine solid oak chairs inspired by different classic seating designs. Each inspirational design has been simplified, refined and updated to bring it to its finest state in terms of aesthetics and comfort. Designed for everyday use each chair is hand finished with natural oils to help the wood age and develop character well over time, giving the furniture a warm familiar feel.

To aid in comfort (both literally and figuratively), seven of the chairs are upholstered in local Donegal tweeds made from Irish sheep’s wool and dyes sourced from indigenous plants. The hand woven, Irish heritage tweeds add a personal touch to the stark wood chairs. And because each weaver’s work is different, each chair is unique by design.

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The chairs work together as a universal collection, each designed for different uses and named accordingly: the Simple chair for at home or office, the Fireside chair, the Reading chair, the Conversation chair and the Rocking chair. A bench, weekend rocker and sofa will drop later this year. Aodh will soon be available online on 1 July 2011 and later through to-be-announced partners in New York and London this September. Prices range from around $400-1700. See more images after the jump.


Design Week: ICFF Alternatives

Upcycled bags, flip-book necklaces and more in our picks from three satellite design fairs

by Alexandra Polier

As ICFF kicks into high gear this week in NYC, so do a number of satellite design fairs showcasing the work of hundreds of talented international designers. Alternatives to the ICFF provide a venue for the many independents who find the big tradeshow prohibitively expensive, but not all the offshoots are necessarily created equal. Some, like Model Citizens, have a few years of experience that positions themselves as a serious outlet for independent design. Other less-established exhibitions as well as more critically-minded formats make for showcases with more edge then standard fare.

Model Citizens

Since starting three years ago, Model Citizens has grown to include 100 designers from Holland to
DUMBO. Founder Mika Braakman hopes to track the trajectory of
these strong individuals, who will no doubt be trend-leaders a decade
from now.

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Brooklyn-based John D’Aponte playfully weaves history into his designs, upcycling vintage textiles into bags and luggage.

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Boston-based artist Debra Folz designs and manufactures contemporary furniture and tabletop accessories. Her Whole Story Photo Albums are a hybrid of traditional
bookbinding and contemporary engineering that allow them to stand
independently but also to expand.

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Industrial designer Emily Rothschild, whose work has been displayed at Cooper Hewitt
National Design Museum
, brings whimsy to jewelry with “pinky wings” and flip-book necklaces that create a low-tech animation when spun.

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Brooklyn-based designer Niels Cosman’s handcrafted CMYK Cabinet features highly-decorative doors composed of hundreds glass hexagons. The RISD Glass Department adjunct and alum took inspiration from Shaker furniture and traditional farm-style furniture that used chicken wire in place of glass.

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Most inspiring at Model Citizen were Mike Seto and
David Kim of Click Boom Pow, whose
holistic design approach focuses on user experience and cultural
impact. Their NRM Project (New Role Models) are benches that have been
painted by a select group of artists including Milton Glaser and
installed throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. The idea is to give New
Yorkers a place to sit and reflect this summer, while inspiring others to
donate good design.

Snug-it, a modular furniture system, uses three joiners to configure wood or glass planks into a variety of pieces—from beds to shelves—that can then evolve with your needs.

Shown as part of Duran Vanderpoort’s “How it’s made, and why it’s so f*cking expensive,” this “Ready-Made” ($11,410) by Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk is the result of his use of mattress-production machines to create prefab pattern pieces that he then sews into garments.

Wanted Design

Just a few blocks down from ICFF is another new independent, Wanted Design. Sprawled out over most of the first floor of the Terminal Building, this hardly looks like an independent design fair and more like a well-styled showroom, complete with a coffee bar from Le Colombe.

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Founders Claire Pijoulat and Odile Hainaut brought their French sensibility and 29 established designers together to create a stunning event. From lighting designers
like Les Heritiers, Francois Brument and Triode to furniture-makers Tabisso and Olivier Dolle (“Bibliothèque Branche” pictured above), the French genius was well represented.

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Ligne Roset showed off their new Philippe Nigro-designed collection, which included a series of metal pendant lamps that can hang solo or be clustered together to hang as a chandelier.

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The dramatic lighting of David Trubridge, whose colorful Seed System packs flat and then expands to all sizes—including floor to ceiling.

Voos, the Brooklyn shop devoted to work by local designers, introduced two items that bring a little nature indoors. Fort Standard’s Terra terrarium ($6,550) is a free-standing icosahedron for 360-degree viewing of the 20-year-old bonsai inside. The Dino Lamp by Deger Cengiz combines a flexible neck with a small container, all covered in felt for the fuzzy ultimate in practical desk accessories.

A transcontinental collaboration between Vienna-based designer Christiane Büssgen and Mexican designer Jesús Alonso led to Project Avolution, an experiment in food resulting in a beautifully simple set of wooden serving dishes and a ceramic bowl modeled after an avocado.

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Finally the Whyte Label by Joe Doucet, a new
collection of bespoke furniture and objects that pushed the boundaries
of concept and craftsmanship, was a standout.

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Doucet also had on view his Presence piece, which highlights the “rarefied craftsmanship of porcelain artisans,” as well as a beautiful marble puzzle that is as perfect for some grown-up fun as it is displayed on a coffee table.

Brokenoff

The idea of concept was very much on everyone’s mind, as a few of the
participants at Wanted (including Doucet) have also worked to create the Brokenoff exhibition at Gallery R’Pure in tribute to their friend, the late designer
Tobias Wong. Blurring the boundary between conceptual art and design, Wong’s work questioned the value system of objects and pretensions of designers with wit, satire and humor.

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Wong launched onto the scene in 2001 with “This is a Lamp”—a take on the famous Philippe Starck chair. Ten years later he was gone. Doucet and other
celebrated NYC-based designers such as Brad Ascalon, Stephen Burks, Josee
Lepage, Frederick McSwain, Marc Thorpe, Dror Benshetrit, Todd Bracher
and David Weeks spoke in a round table about their tribute exhibition,
sharing their favorite Tobi moments with the crowd, a rare insight
into the personality of the young designer.

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The group had been
working together with Wong in 2010 to create an exhibition of their
own just weeks before Wong’s tragic death. “When we started meeting
and talking about this exhibition we weren’t sure what the outcome
would be,” said Thorpe. “Now we know, this is the point, this is the
outcome.” Doucet adds, “He wanted us to get uncomfortable.”


Get Lit, Get Ink’d

Light up your skin with a tattoo inspired by Marcel Wanders’ intricately designed lamps for Flos

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Creating a true “only in New York” moment during the upcoming ICFF happenings, Flos has teamed up with one of the city’s top tattoo artists to celebrate Dutch designer Marcel Wanders‘ new lamp for the renowned Italian lighting specialist. The event marking its launch will leave a few lucky guests with a permanent entry stamp, as tattoo artist extraordinaire Scott Trerrotola applies one of three custom-created tattoos, each modeled after previous designs Wanders’ made for Flos.

The three designs on offer during “Get Lit, Get Ink’d” are interpretations of Wanders’ Skygarden, Can Can and Chrysalis lamps—the latter two just introduced at the recent Salon del Mobile in Milan. The tattoos will be done by appointment only, at the Flos showroom in SoHo on 15 May 2011. To make an appointment, call +1 212 353 1383.


Poetic License: Deliberate Deviations from Normally Applicable Rules and Practices

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Once again Moss, NYC’s highly revered design destination, opened one of the most important openings during ICFF, called “Poetic License,” to much frenzied fanfare this weekend. Despite considerable downsizing over the past two years—the company shuttered both of its West Coast operations and its joint-venture restaurant, and gave over its previous gallery space to lighting producer Flos—Moss managed to pack more talent into a single room than seemingly possible. Billed as a “gallery-wide celebration of rule breaking, envelope pushing and taking chances,” Poetic License offers work in a multitude of forms and mediums, including for the first time the representation of true two-dimensional “art” in collaboration with independent curators Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner. (Pictured above, the Koons-esque Chippensteel Chair by Oskar Zieta.)

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The ensemble certainly makes for some interesting comparisons. The techno wizardry of Starck’s pre-production Light Photon OLED lamp for Flos, for instance, doesn’t hold a candle to the lyrical simplicity of Finn Magee’s Flat Light. Similarly, a series of grotesque bowls by the Campana brothers, while attention-grabbing, aren’t nearly as compelling as the considered architectural facade-cum-trays by Michele de Lucchi (above). While proprietor Murray Moss always has an uncanny knack for pairing disparate styles, at times the juxtaposition of such varied work on the same stage feels almost schizophrenic. Then again, it is his name on the window and he’s allowed some poetic license of his own.

Poetic License runs through 26 June 2010. Check out a slideshow of installation shots below.