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discover design & gia awards winners. housewares 2015.

discover design & gia awards winners. housewares 2015.

Mar 18, 2015

‘Discover Design’ is five years old in 2015 and is a destination of more than 100 design-centric exhibitors from around the world. The confines includes the ‘Discover Design Gallery’ featuring the products submitted for the gia awards; ‘Design Debut’, an incubator program within Discover Design, featuring 10 new companies; and the Discover Design Lounge with Wine Bar and Café. In 2015 over 270 entries were viewed by 20 judges to select the 2015 gia awards winners:

[ best Collection Design ]
global honoree
That! inventions > heat THAT!

finalists
Iittala > Ruutu
Jia > Steamer collection

[ best product design ]
global honorees
Eva Solo > Digital kitchen scale
Joseph Joseph > Can-do
That! inventions > scoop THAT!

finalists
Alessi > Cheese please
Big Dragon Design > Turbine usa pizza cutter
David Rasmussen Design > Wud tumbler
Dreamfarm > Savel
Po > Pao thermal mug

[ martin m. pegler award for best booth ]
global honoree
sagegreenlife > Firefly bio-dome

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above> heat THAT! by that!

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above> ruutu by ronan and erwan bouroullec for iittala

above> steamer collection by jia

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above> digital kitchen scale by eva solo

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above> can-do by joseph joseph

above> scoop that! by that!

above> cheese please by gabriele chiave and lorenza bozzoli for alessi

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above> wud tumbler by david rasmussen design

above> savel by dreamfarm

above> páo thermo mug by po

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above: turbineusa pizza cutter by big dragon studios

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above> firefly bio-dome designed by daniel pouzet for sagegreenlife

[ 2015 judges ]
Specialty retailers, design and consumer editors, trendspotters and independent designers served as Discover Design judges for the gia awards. They are: Asko Ahokas, Asko Ahokas Consulting; Jens Bauerle, Global Brand Vision; Mary Liz Curtin, Leon & Lulu; Meredith Doherty, The Grommet; Mary Rose Gearon, Global Brand Vision; Michael Higdon, National Building Museum; Raymond Hu, Core77; Ron Kovach, DesignApplause; Dan Kraemer, IA Collaborative; Lu Lyndon, Placewares+Lyndon Design; Paul Makovsky, Metropolis magazine; Marco Perry, PENSA; Jamie Rowley, Fab; Billy Shelton, Chicago Architecture Foundation; Michele Tobin, Walker Art Center; Becky Tyre, Gift Shop magazine; Robyn Waters, R W Trend; Adrienne Wheatley, Culture + Commerce, Terri Winter, Top3 by Design; and LinYee Yuan, Mold.

2015 was our (DesignApplause) third year to judge this show. with almost one hundred more entries (270) than 2014, the competition this year was noticeably higher. all items were judged online – it’s worth noting, video submissions are compelling – though there were photo-only winners.

[ official release – winners ]

talking to tanner woodford about the chicago design museum.

talking to tanner woodford about the chicago design museum.

Jun 24, 2014

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We’re talking to Tanner Woodford, co-founder and executive director for the Chicago Design Museum. We’re in the new permanent space on Block Thirty Seven and a grand opening is less than a month away.

[DesignApplause] Tanner, this is the Chicago Design Museum’s third year? What’s different about this year?
[Tanner Woodford] Yes, it’s our third year and this year we’re becoming a permanent institution. The past two years we’ve been a pop-up. Our first year was in Humboldt Park and we had over 1,000 people attend our opening reception, which was an encouraging, pleasant surprise. Last year we moved to a more central location, here at Block Thirty Seven. We had 17,000 square feet. This year we have 5,000. At the Humboldt Park location, our visitors were mostly designers. But in Block Thirty Seven we are speaking to a more public audience. From walk-in traffic off the street, to the Blue Line station in this building. Building off the success of the last two years, we decided it was time to become permanent.

[DA] What have you learned in three years?
[TW] I have learned so much. In short, we are trying to institutionalize more.

[DA] What do you mean by institutionalize.
[TW] We’ve always learned by doing. For example, the color of this room. We wanted to go with a 2% grey instead of white, so that white objects pop and black is richer. So we painted the walls, tested it, and came away feeling it was little too cool. Our group decided to paint the walls again. We’ve begun to assess our curatorial processes. The museum’s business is curation—that’s our product. Now that we’re rooted in the community, we want to bring more traditional elements into our collections.

[DA] What kind of work are you looking for?
[TW] In the past we’ve only exhibited graphic design. Now we’re moving into the other disciplines of design: architecture, industrial design, fashion, interaction, and more. This is our first show in this space. We’re playing to our strengths, which is currently graphic design.

[DA] Mixing and matching is both interesting and stimulating. I recently interviewed fashion designer Elke Walter and she said she liked presenting her work in photo galleries and this week she’s in London in Zaha Hadid’s Design Gallery. And Luminaire, a furniture showroom, had a great fashion event. Tell us about the thrust of this event.
[TW] It’s called Starts / Speculation: Graphic Design in Chicago Past and Future. The idea is the gallery is divided in half. It’s non-linear and incomplete. Chicago is a city of broad shoulders, a very innovative community. We’re highlighting innovation over the last century. Starting with the Burnham Plan—urban planning—before moving through the New Bauhaus, Container Corporation and its Herbert Bayer-designed World Geographic Atlas. A lot of people don’t know that the CCA commissioned the recycle logo. We have the original Call to Entries for it. We’ve collected many interesting artifacts that signal the start of new things beginnings in Chicago. The other half of the gallery is forward-looking, consisting of local graphic design firms that answer the question ‘How will technology shape communication in 100 years?

[DA] And this is all Chicago.
[TW] This show is Chicago-focused, because it started as a celebration of the AIGA Centennial with the Chicago Chapter. The Chicago Chapter however wanted to celebrate 100 years of Chicago history rather than 100 years of AIGA history.

[DA] You talked to the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) and STA (Society of Typographic Arts) which are graphic design. Have you talked to other design disciplines like AIA, ASID and IDSA?
[TW] Chicago has a strong design community. I’ve talked to a few of those organizations. We have many community partners — Architecture for Humanity, for example – which is doing an event here on June 27 that coincides with the AIA national conference. We are trying to broaden our community partners.

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[DA] When there are exhibits here what’s the capacity?
[TW] 250 at one time, though we have a spillover space next door that accommodates several thousand.

[DA] How are you marketing yourself. You guys are very good at it.
[TW] We have an amazing marketing committee. We have two really great media sponsors, DesignApplause being one of them. We have four people on our marketing committee, and good press contacts. Frankly, now a lot of people are approaching us, asking what we are doing.

[DA] How many design museums are in the U.S.
[TW] There are over 100 cultural institutions in Chicago alone, including galleries and museums. At one time I was planning on visiting all of them, and that’s still on the bucket list.

In the states, I’ve been reaching out to a lot of directors of design museums. There’s Design Museum Boston and Design Museum Portland, which is under the same umbrella organization. There’s a Museum of Design in Atlanta. Of course there’s Cooper-Hewitt, the Walker, the Art Institute and the MCA, all of whom I have massive respect for.

Chicago is culturally rich and we’ve been lucky enough to find a niche here. We’re trying to complement what the city already has with regards to cultural resources.

[DA] It’s almost impossible to be in competition with other organizations when it comes to design. There are so many moving parts, aspects, no one can do it all, and it’s good to have the variety of perspectives from these curated efforts.
[TW] There’s a bandwidth for it. Rick Valicenti’s CHGO DSGN show is up now down the street. AIGA Chicago has a poster show—the chapter’s annual party—opening the night before ours.

[DA] Who talked you into Kickstarter. And congratulations with reaching your goal.
[TW] Thank you! It’s an idea we talked about on and off over the last couple of years. The board was really excited about it. The wonderful, talented Debbie Millman also strongly suggested it. And, when Debbie asks you to do something, you do it. The board talked about ways to engage the community. Kickstarter was a way for us to do so. We do have corporate sponsors and design firms that are sponsoring us and we have been, and are applying for grants, as well.

[DA] I’ve thought about it. It takes courage to try it.
[TW] Yes, talk about anxiety. There was so much support in the last 24 hours. It’s incredibly humbling.

[DA] Are there things that don’t work? Are you too new to know that? Does your board try this or that and sees what flies.
[TW] We’ve tried a few things. Our first store was called ‘Ignorance and Ambition’ and that’s sort of been baked into our DNA.

We’re young, and we’re new at this. We’re intentionally trying do the certain things differently. We’ve experimented in ways that a museum wouldn’t normally, now within more safe spaces.

A lot of this year has been spent talking to as many as possible, and asking how they see the role of a museum. We’ve got five questions we’re asking. One of them is ‘What is the role of the museum in society today?’ and ‘Can a museum be a disruptive technology?’ So, we’re still figuring out where our points of experimentation are, and how we’re going to define our voice as a non-traditional institution.

Certainly, becoming a permanent institution is ground breaking for us. The first year we took a month to create the environment, the show was up a month, and then torn down in days. One month and not much shelf life for the Chicago community and its visitors to see the exhibition. With this exhibition, we are going to have printed exhibition catalogs for the first time, so that the work can be archived into the future.

[DA] The catalog. A print or digital version?
[TW] We feel pretty strongly that a printed catalog will still be around in 50 years.

[DA] Let’s make time in the future to talk about this more. Who are your resources. Do you go to the schools repositories?
[TW] We’ve borrowed work from IIT, SAIC and UIC.

[DA] Do you see yourself as a repository also?
[TW] Yes, of course. We do feel strongly building collections and collections should be archived as well. We don’t have a lot of guidelines around that quite yet.

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[DA] Rick (Valicenti) and I were talking about the Chicago Design Archive and the subsequent annual Archive competitions. And Rick asked where are they and I said online and he said, no, where ARE THEY?‘ I said the latest actual pieces to the competitions are probably in Bob Zeni’s basement. Maybe you guys are the repository.
[TW] We don’t have the space for it now.

[DA] True, but maybe you can find someone to donate the space and you can be responsible for it’s safe keeping and presenting it every now and then. Where is your ideal permanent space located?
[TW] Here. The West Loop and River North are always future options, but the intention is to be in a space that is very accessible to the public. From a visitor’s point of view, you almost have to leave the Loop to get to the neighborhood culture. It’s a question of audience for us. We have two audiences for the moment. There’s the design community, who we absolutely love. But, we also want to start talking to the general public. We want to brand Chicago outside of Chicago. We’re talking about how to raise Chicago’s influence internationally.

[DA] DesignApplause!
[TW] There you go.

[DA] What’s your arrangement in Block Thirty Seven if I can ask.
[TW] It’s a six-month rolling lease, and we hope to be here as long as possible.

[DA] What’s a good ‘length-of-show’ for you and how many times a year? Can you look at the MCA for example and see how long a show stays up?
[TW] That’s a good, complex question. Some shows can run longer depending on the content, but maybe our goal will become to create shows of equal content if that’s possible.

[DA] The best course is knowing that everybody is different and you learn by doing. Wallpaper magazine is a good example, always trying something. They have a cool concept now called ‘Handmade’ and it debuted in Milan, this is it’s fifth year. 70 pieces and the show just came to ICFF in New York. What’s amazing to me is Wallpape knows they are going to do it but the participants have about two-two 1/2 months to conceive and hang it.
[TW] Yes, exactly, just do it. You know there are many institutions that have done similar things.

[DA] How many people are helping you at the moment.
[TW] At the moment about 35. The institution expands and contracts as needed. We feel fortunate to have such skilled and passionate friends, followers, and volunteers.

[DA] Who’s on your board? Just graphic designers?
[TW] No. Lauren Boegen is our Administrative Director and works at Adler. Jessica Vician is our Marketing Director and works as a content strategist for SPC Educational Solutions. Moving forward, we are trying to build a more traditional board, particularly around development and fundraising.

[DA] What’s next?
[TW] We have a couple of concepts on the table, and will fill you in soon!

[DA] Tanner, let’s close this chat with why you do this and do you get yourself into panic attacks.
[TW] I am in constant panic. Now, I have more time to think. In any design discipline, there is a state of panic, a desire for constant improvement. We’ve learned a lot about timeframes, and are managing the work better with each exhibition. We have a very curious, passionate, creative group who take on a ton of the pressure.

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[DA] What about you personally. It is as simple as you saying ‘I own this property and what kind of a person would I be if I wasn’t always trying to improve it.’
[TW] That’s an interesting question. I think my personality has been intertwined with museum’s for the last three years, even while I was at Morningstar. I was (and still am) passionate about Morningstar, but there is definitely something about building this business from the ground up. There is this idea to constantly make things better.

chdm14-vip1vip opening night

1> plan of chicago | daniel h. burnham | 1908 ( oldest entry in show )
2> 2013 morningstar annual report | morningstar design | 2014 ( most recent entry in show )
3> support board


[ chicago design museum – interview 2012 ]

event> starts/speculations: graphic design in chicago past and future
date> 12 june > 30 august 2014
venue> block thirty seven | 3rd floor | 108 north state street chicago
open to public> tues>sat noon>7p

CHGO DSGN at the chicago cultural center.

CHGO DSGN at the chicago cultural center.

May 7, 2014

opening public reception | friday evening 30 may 30 | 6 > 10p

CHGO DSGN [Chicago Design], a major exhibition of Recent Object and Graphic Design by 100+ of the city’s leading designers, will open 31 May and run through 2 November 2014 at the Chicago Cultural Center.

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Chicago has long been regarded as an international center for design, and this retrospective celebrates the region’s creative and innovative spirit. The exhibition is curated by Rick Valicenti, 2011 recipient of the prestigious Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, with displays designed by Tim Parsons, Associate Professor of Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute.

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“Chicago design is alive once again and on display for the world to see,” Valicenti says. “Almost a century ago, Chicago designers were at the epicenter of print. A few years later, Chicago was home to the New Bauhaus, and in the 70s our designers championed international modernism. Today’s designers are reverberating with inspiration from storied times as they amplify Chicago design’s future.”

Surprise, invention, and risk run through the 200+ works on display. A broad range of endeavors are featured from functional objects to theoretical proposals.

Highlights include the DIVVY bike naming and graphic identity program by IDEO and Firebelly, the world’s thinnest watch from Central Standard Timing, an exhibition catalog for the Art Institute of Chicago by Studio Blue, some of the best Kickstarter-funded initiatives such as TIKTOK by MNML design director Scott Wilson, an open-source international library of icons called The Noun Project, and product designer Steven Haulenbeek’s collection of bronze bowls cast in the ice during this winter’s frigid polar vortex.

The exhibition features work from Chicago’s established design studios: Crosby Associates, Morningstar, VSA Partners, Wright, the University of Chicago Press, the Department of Design at Leo Burnett, Threadless, and furniture-design legend Holly Hunt.

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cc14-MCAthe way of the shovel scratch-off poster | romain andré and michael savona | mark dion, shovel illustration on the top layer and tony tasset, uncovered photograph, images courtesy mca chicago

The next generation of designers are featured as well, including the delicate utensil designs by Martin Kastner for Alinea, publications designed by James Goggin, an experimental book by Plural, a sonically-activated animation by John Pobojewski of Thirst, the radical designs by Materious, audio-generated posters for the Poetry Foundation by Sonnenzimmer, public works by the designers from the Museum of Contemporary Art, and a conceptual study for typography made with water by Matt Wizinsky.

A selection of works will have their Chicago debut, including a limited edition bronze chair by furniture designer Jonathan Nesci, a bookshelf by Felicia Ferrone, a sculptural leather chair by Jay Sae Jung Oh, a film using an experimental microscopic camera by Leviathan, and an incense-burning skull by Cody Hudson.

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lunatik taktik extreme | minimal

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[ opening public reception ] friday evening 30 may 30 | 6 > 10p / exhibit hall | chicago cultural center | 78 east washington | 4th floor

[ exhibitors lists ]
Aaron Ferber, IDEO
Adrianne Hawthorne
Alan Snider, VSA Partners
Alberto Velez, HOLLY HUNT
Alex Fuller
Alex Gilbert
Alex Solis, Threadless
Alexa Vicious, Plural
Alisa Wolfson, Leo Burnett
Alli Nash, Wink Design Atelier
Andrew Fenchel, LAMPO
Andy Gray, VSA Partners
Ania Jaworska
Baozhen Li, Thirst
Bart Crosby, Crosby Associates
Ben Deter, Faust
Ben Stagl, ChiLab
Beth Weaver
Bo Rodda, ChiLab
Bob Faust, Faust
Bob Zeni
Bradon Webb, Leviathan
Brandon Hill
Brandt Brinkerhoff, BB-KK
Brandy Olsen, Leviathan
Brenda Bergen, Wink Design Atelier
Brendan Shanley
Brett Schnacky, Mode Project
Brian Hieggelke, Newcity
Brian Watterson, Studio Blue
Brooks Ruyle, Mode Project
Bruce Tharp, Materious
Bryce Wilner
Bud Rodecker, Thirst
Cameron Brand, Thirst
Casey Lurie
Casey Martin, Leo Burnett
Chad Hutson, Leviathan
Chad Kouri
Charles Adler, Kickstarter
Cheryl Towler Weese, Studio Blue
Chris Beers, Leviathan
Chris Roeleveld
Chrissi Cowhey, Studio Blue
Christopher Gentner, Gentner Design
Chrystine Doerr, VSA Partners
Claire Williams-Martinez, Studio Blue
Claudia Alberts, VSA Partners
Claudine Litman, VSA Partners
Cody Hudson, Struggle Inc.
Colin Carter, Mode Project
Colin Hall, VSA Partners
Colleen Tracey, Firebelly
Corey Roach, VSA Partners
Craig Zacok, Leviathan
Craighton Berman
Cristina Anichi, VSA Partners
Curt Schreiber, VSA Partners
Cyril Marsollier, Club Club
Dan Forbes, Leo Burnett
Dan Knuckey, VSA Partners
Dan Kraemer, IA Collaborative
Dan Marsden, JNL Design
Dana Arnett, VSA Partners
Darren McPherson, Firebelly
Dave Hanicak, VSA Partners
Dave Pabellon, Faust
Dave Reynolds, Wink Design Atelier
Dave Vondle, Central Standard Timing
David Berthy, IDEO
David Brodeur, Leviathan
David Williams, Morningstar
Dawn Hancock, Firebelly
Denny Liu, VSA Partners
Dustin Yerks, VSA Partners
Eiji Jimbo, Thing Thing
Elaine Fong, IDEO
Eleanor Kung, Studio Blue
Emily Bentrup, VSA Partners
Erin Borreson, Legacy Frameworks
Felicia Ferrone, fferrone
Franchec Crespo
Frank Garguilo, Wink Design Atelier
Gene Bellini
Gina Rossi, VSA Partners
Gosia Sobus, Crosby Associates
Greg Calvert, Firebelly
Greg Samata, Samata
Helen Maria Nugent, Haelo Design
Hillary Geller, Studio Blue
Holly Hunt, HOLLY HUNT
Howard Willenzik, VSA Partners
Hwa-Ryong Kim, Newcity
Ian Koenig, VSA Partners
Isaac Tobin, University of Chicago Press
Ivan Brunetti
J. Brad Sturm, Studio Blue
Jackson Cavanaugh
Jake Nickell, Threadless
James Costello, Costello Communications
James Goggin, Practise
Jamie Koval, VSA Partners
Jarrod Ryhal, VSA Partners
Jarut Chanprapanont, TNOP DESIGN
Jason Gillette, ChiLab
Jason Jones, 50,000feet
Jason McKean, Leo Burnett
Jason Pickleman, JNL Design
Jason White, Leviathan
Jay Sae Jung Oh
Jeff Mumford, Crosby Associates
Jennifer Mahanay, Wright
Jeremiah Chiu, Plural
Jerry O’Leary, Central Standard Timing
Jessada Weesuwan, TNOP DESIGN
Jessi Adrignola, Samata
Jessica Charlesworth, Parsons & Charlesworth
Jill Shimabukuro, University of Chicago Press
Jilly Simons, Concrete
Jim Misner, 50,000feet
Jim Toth, VSA Partners
Jin Ko, IDEO
Joanna Vodopivec, Crosby Associates
Joe Van Wetering, Threadless
John Fisher, VSA Partners
John Massey
John Pobojewski, Thirst
Jon Krohn, Plural
Jonathan Nesci, HALE
Jonathan Sadler, Tenspeed Hero
Jonathan Turitz, VSA Partners
Josh Witherspoon, VSA Partners
Julie Driggs, VSA Partners
Kate Trogan, VSA Partners
Katherine Walker, BB-KK
Katrina Nelken, Leviathan
Kelly Bjork, VSA Partners
Kelly Dorsey, Leo Burnett
Ken Fox, 50,000feet
Kevin Primm, Leviathan
Kristen Cullen, Grillo Group
Kristofer Newgren, VSA Partners
Kuan Wen Chiu, ChiLab
Kuen Chang, IDEO
Kyle Fletcher
Kyle Hames, VSA Partners
Kyle Poff, Kyle Poff Design
Lauren Ayers, Tenspeed Hero
Lauren Boegen, Studio Blue
Lauren Gallagher
Lauren Nassef
Letherbee
Levi Borreson, Legacy Frameworks
Lim Heng Swee, Threadless
Luke Batten, Tenspeed Hero
Lyndon Valicenti
Magdalena Wistuba
Maggie Lewis, Studio Blue
Maria Grillo, Grillo Group
Martin Kastner, Crucial Detail
Mary Yang, Studio Blue
Mathew Dorfman
Matt Daly, Leviathan
Matt Ganser, VSA Partners
Matt Herlihy, VSA Partners
Matt Puhalla, MINIMAL
Matt Wizinsky, Studio Junglecat
Matthew Hieggelke, Newcity
Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Terdich, Morningstar
Max Davis, ChiLab
Maya Romanoff
Megan Deal, Studio Blue
Melanie Carson, Newcity
Melissa Keller, VSA Partners
Michael Freimuth, VSA Partners
Michael Savona
Mike Bingaman, Plural
Mike Coon, Leviathan
Mike LaHood, Leviathan
Mike McQuade
Mike Scussel, VSA Partners
Molly McGee, VSA Partners
Mosher, @MosherShow
Nadine Nakanshi, Sonnenzimmer
Nancy Flemm, pixies & porcupines
Nancy McCabe, Costello Communications
Natalia Kowaleczko, Leo Burnett
Nick Adam, Firebelly
Nick Butcher, Sonnenzimmer
Ohn Ho, Firebelly
Paul Higgins, Chicago Reader
Peter Cuba, VSA Partners
Rachel Broaddus, Leviathan
Rachel Mulder, Thing Thing
Regan Blough, Concrete
Renata Graw, Plural
Renee Benz, Morningstar
Rick Valicenti, Thirst
Robyn Paprocki, MCA Design Department
Romain Andre
Ron Berkheimer, VSA Partners
Ron Kirckpatrick, Haelo Design
Ron Kovach, DesignApplause
Ross Zietz, Threadless
Sam Silvio
Sandro, Sandro, Inc.
Sara Frisk, IDEO
Sarah Herda
Sarah Trent, VSA Partners
Scott Reinhard
Scott Thomas
Scott Wilson, MINIMAL
Shan James, Practise
Sharon Burdett, Strand Design
Silja Hillmann, Studio Blue
Simon Anton, Thing Thing
Stacey Donaldson, VSA Partners
Stefan Draht, Mode Project
Stefan Herman, VSA Partners
Stephan Draht, Mode Project
Stephanie Tharp, Materious
Stephen Farrell, Slip Studios
Steve Christopher, MINIMAL
Steve Ryan, VSA Partners
Steven Haulenbeek
Stratton Cherouny, VSA Partners
Sung Jang, Sung Jang Laboratory
Tanner Woodford, Morningstar
Ted Burdett, Strand Design
Thom Moran, Thing Thing
Thomas Leinberger
Thomas Wolfe, VSA Partners
Tim Alamillo
Tim Parsons, Parsons & Charlesworth
Tim Sepulveda, Leviathan
Timothy White, VSA Partners
Tnop Wangsillapakun, TNOP DESIGN
Todd Piper, VSA Partners
Tony Mingo, VSA Partners
Tony Riazzi, VSA Partners
Tracy West, 50,000feet
Tricia Chamberlain, Leo Burnett
Tuan Pham, Studio Blue
Tyler Deal, Idiot Pull
Valarie D’Antonio, VSA Partners
Wallo Villacorta, Club Club
Wesley Webb, Wink Design Atelier
Whitney Waters, Crosby Associates
Will Miller, Firebelly
Willie Diaz, VSA Partners
Wiriya Mana-anantakul, TNOP DESIGN,
Zoë Ryan, The Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition resources made possible by > Smithfield Properties, Best Imaging
Additional resources provided by > Casati Gallery, Cenveo, Classic Color, FLOR, Graphic Arts Studio, Holly Hunt, Lamin-8, Leo Burnett, Maya Romanoff, Morningstar, TenFab Design, Wright
Opening Reception refreshments provided by > Goose Island Beer Company, SkinnyPop

[ opening public reception ] friday evening 30 may 30 | 6 > 10p
[ general information ] dates > 31 may – 02 nov 2014 / venue > exhibit hall | chicago cultural center | 78 east washington | 4th floor
[ chgo dsgn happenings ]

Chicago design week 2013.

Jun 2, 2013

2013chidesignweek1 10 > 15 june 2013 | this is the fourth annual chicago design week #chidw. quite a bit of design going on elsewhere too. [ aiga @AIGAchicago ] [ chicago design museum @chidm ] [ idsa @IDSAchicago ] [ luminaire @luminaire_ ] [ neocon @neocon ] [ shared practice @SharedPractice ] [ sta @STA_CHICAGO ] [ the guerrilla truck show @GrillaTruckShow ] @DesignApplause encourages to ‘proceed to add value’ by sharing and via ‘comments’ below.

chidw13-chdm-banners1as seen from the chicago design museum, banners promoting the one month pop-up exhibition are currently lining state street directly in front of the museum space located in block thirty seven, 3rd floor | click > enlarge

chidw13-truck1guerrilla truck show / 11 june 2012 / 6:30p

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W-G13-ForceofNature3force of nature | an installation by the guild, karlssonwilker and wolf-gordon

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cdw13-vitra-physix1hanging with physix by alberto meda | vitra showroom #1192

legacy_model2model 2 bike | custom bike by legacy frameworks, a step-through bike frame with a belt drive | at the guerrilla truck show

neocon13-haworth-bluescape1thinking bigger > bluescape | haworth showroom 312

hm13-AnEngineOfProsperity1showroom 3-321

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Happy holidays. 2012-2013.

Dec 12, 2012

Thank you for all your support this year. Looking forward to welcoming you back in 2013. From all of us. Happy holidays. Feed the soil not the plants. DesignApplause.

Fine young craftsmen: young & norgate.

Oct 10, 2012

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One day when I have a couple thousand quid lying around I’ll treat myself to one of Young & Norgate‘s buy-it-for-life home furnishings. The small design group makes all of their products by hand (“we make, not manufacture”) in their Devon workshop, using high quality, high price materials. THey hand select FSC certified timber from local suppliers and source premium leathers tanned and dyed in Scotland, while their iron work is done in New York.

Each pice in their pared down collection is made to order and is one of a limited edition of 100. Since each item is made for a particular buyer, you can specify details like the type of wood, the finish or the color of the leather. No project is too big or too small, “from umbrella stands to custom made libraries.”

With my penchant for writerly paraphernalia, I fancy the Animate Writing Desk. It has a slim profile and a tray sunken into the pullout drawer, which is lined with red leather (or color of your choice). I love details like the contrasting wood finish on the drawer pulls and the outer panels, giving it a kind of racing stripe on either side. And while I’m at it I might as well spring for the coordinating Animate Bedside Table, with contrasting American Black Walnut and bright formica. I know, formica! It’s great to see unexpected materials used in high quality craftsmanship, especially in retro baby blue. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of their workshop.


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Bivouac: ronan and erwan bouroullec. MCA chicago.

Oct 10, 2012

bivouac | centre pompidou-metz | 2011 | click > enlarge

[ Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec ] Bivouac is a mid-career exhibition highlighting two of the most exciting and innovative designers of the 21st century. Born and based in France, the brothers not only design elegant and beautiful objects—chairs, sofas, lamps, tables, and dishware—but they also develop pioneering hybrid forms that defy categorization and shape space in clever new ways. The title of the exhibition is inspired by this multipurpose hybridity, as a bivouac is a lightweight encampment or shelter that can be adapted to its environment just as Bouroullec products are adapted by their end-users and the spaces they inhabit.

bivouac | centre pompidou-metz | 2011

280 studies | bivouac | centre pompidou-metz | 2011



Alessi’s Ovale collection of plates and cutlery designed by the Bouroullec brothers will be on display as part of the exhibition. The Ovale collection originally launched in 2010 and just recently extended to include two new color versions of the table service: pink and light grey. The addition of the full cutlery service is also new for 2012.



Flos’s Piani, a light with a flat base and top available in multiple colors. Its enlarged base functions as a tray table to contain objects like pens, eyeglasses, keys, coins and paper clips. Piani’s light shines down on them as though they’re center stage. Piani features LED lighting with an injection printed lamp body in ABS. Dissipater in polished pressofused aluminium. Diffuser in injection printed optical PMMA. 2011.

event: bivouac: ronan and erwan bouroullec
venue: museum of contemporary art | 220 east chicago avenue | chicago
date: 20 october > 20 january 2012

Norway's biggest export: magnus pettersen.

Oct 8, 2012

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Norway, often overshadowed by the proximity of Scandinavian powerhouses like Sweden and Finland, has been producing an impressive number of promising young designers in recent years. Foremost amongst them is Magnus Pettersen, the Sarpsborg-born (yup, that’s in Norway) designer who established his studio in London after studying Product & Furniture Design at Kingston University and Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins. Still, it wasn’t until early 2011 that Pettersen designed his first product, a wildly popular table lamp that was immediately picked up by a yet-to-be-named manufacturer when it debuted at London Design Festival that year. It’s currently schedule to retail in Fall 2013.



Since then Pettersen has designed a new lamp called Beacon that takes its design cues from lighthouses. Though the connection isn’t immediately apparent, Pettersen explained how he “wanted to find a way to reflect a warm light from an energy efficient bulb, which can seem very cold.” The inspiration for his furniture series, which he took from industrial lockers, is a little more obvious. Available in ash and aluminum, the chest of drawers, sideboard, credenza, and side table are typically Scandinavian in their focus on manufacturing and simplicity of materials, yet also completely new in their use of shiny gold metal.


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Some pigeons are more equal than others.

Oct 5, 2012

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Julien Charriere and photographer Julius von Bismark are authors of this project called “some pigeons are more equal than others”, consisting about dying 35 pigeon in the city of Copenhagen. A «pigeon apparatus» was build with this purpose. The machine works as a bird trap with a conveyor belt mechanism, ones inside the machine the pigeon get automatically airbrushed in different colors. The machine was installed for a week on a roof in Copenhagen. Then you could see these pigeons flying around the city. It has also been done in Venice. Thinking if 35 were dyed in Chicago, would you ever see two together? We have hawks here too.







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Jonathan prince installs G2V at dag hammarskjold plaza.

Oct 5, 2012

G2V | 2012 | oxidized and high chromium stainless steel | 10.5 x 8 x 4 feet | click > enlarge

The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and Cynthia-Reeves Projects are pleased to announce that G2V, a new sculpture by the artist Jonathan Prince will be on view at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, at Second Avenue and East 47th Street in Manhattan. A public reception with the artist will be held at the site on Wednesday, 10 October 10 from 6 > 7p.



Prince’s new work continues to explore the principal theme of the “interrupted” iconographic form from his Torn Steel series. In G2V, the stainless steel “interruption” in the treated steel is a smooth undulating surface — a beautiful foil to the lush, sandstone-like patina of the oxidized steel. This installation coincides with a public art exhibition of two of his additional works, Southern Remnant and Bore Block, currently on view at the Christie’s Sculpture Garden at 535 Madison Avenue. Prince’s Vestigial Block, a recent acquisition by the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, will be permanently installed in advance of the museum’s opening celebration, and a retrospective of the artist’s black granite sculptures and functional art will be on view at ABC Stone in Brooklyn next month.

For G2V Prince uses his chosen material, steel, in completely new and innovative ways. The artist explains:

I believe that my steel work appears very different than other steel sculptures that are out in the world primarily because the forms I am creating are an extension of my earlier stone carvings. Works in steel tend to be rectilinear in nature whereas stone sculptures (and my steel work) tend towards the curvilinear and/or compound curve. Equipment to form this kind of steel exists in industry but, in forms that are used commercially like curved pipe. In order to create the sculptural forms that I design we often have to engineer the equipment and invent the techniques used for their fabrication. This element of invention is central to my sculpture practice and most importantly to my joy of creation.

Regarding Prince’s move toward public art scaled work over the past year, the artist observes:

For me, the viewer has to physically move through space for the totality of the sculpture to be taken in. I refer to this as temporal exploration. I believe this invites an interact with the object – as new information is revealed from different viewing angles.

The City of New York’s Department of Parks & Recreation’s Art in the Parks program has consistently fostered the creation and installation of temporary public art in parks throughout the five boroughs. Since 1967, collaborations with arts organizations and artists have produced hundreds of public art projects in New York City parks. Please see [ parks art ] New York real estate developer, Craig Nassi is generously serving as a co-sponsor of this project.

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