WantedDesign Chicago
ChiLab is a thinktank for innovation in design, technology, and art based in Chicago, IL.
Unfolding chair by Chilab
ChiLab is a thinktank for innovation in design, technology, and art based in Chicago, IL.
The collective is comprised of Ben Stagl, Bo Rodda, Chiu Kuan-Wen, Jason Gillette, and Max Davis.
Ben Stagl’s work blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, and interior design. Bo Rodda is a designer, visual artist, technologist, and educator, with a trans-disciplinary background that integrates traditional arts and the sciences with digital, interactive, visual, and industrial design; he has done extensive research into high performance and sustainable design. Chiu Kuan-Wen holds a BA in Economics from National Taipei University (2007) and a Master of Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012). Jason Gillette is an architect and designer whose work aims to mediate the social, infrastructural, and psychological conditions that make up urban life. Max Davis spent five years in the dungeons of Cornell University’s Department of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
CHGO DSGN Recent Object and Graphic Design @ Chicago Cultural Center
CHGO DSGN, a major exhibition of Recent Object and Graphic Design by 100+ of the city’s leading designers, is open May 31 through November 2 at Exhibit Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago has long been regarded as an international center for design, and this retrospective celebrates the region’s creative and innovative spirit.
CHGO DSGN 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.
In the early 20th century, Chicago was the epicenter of America’s printing arts.
In the 30s, Chicago welcomed the innovative design educators of the New Bauhaus.
In the 70s, American modernism came to life in Chicago.
Today, CHGO DSGN is all around you.
CHGO DSGN, a major exhibition of Recent Object and Graphic Design by 100+ of the city’s leading designers, is open May 31 through November 2 at Exhibit Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago has long been regarded as an international center for design, and this retrospective celebrates the region’s creative and innovative spirit.
CHGO DSGN 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.
New York Times
The 25th International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which ended Tuesday, offered many surprises.
The 25th International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which ended Tuesday, offered many surprises. There were dollhouse-size candelabra inserted into hanging glass bulbs like ships in a bottle and a coffee table whose base was sheathed in python. There was even wallpaper inspired by a 1909 New York Times article about a monkey in a bathhouse.
But nothing caught the eye like the colossal head of William Shakespeare emerging from an African carpet.
Shakespeare in Africa, part of a rug collection by Milton Glaser for the Spanish company Nanimarquina, reflects the 83-year-old graphic designer’s efforts to yoke together disparate subjects in a way that avoids scrambling the brain. “I wanted to take two things that have no relationship with each other,” Mr. Glaser said, “and do what art does: to unify the apparently unrelated.”
He wasn’t alone in his shoehorning. Two booths away, another Spanish company, Lladró, presented several of its porcelain figurines, including a classic macaw, wrapped in World War I-era camouflage. A news release for the collection, which is called Dazzle, explained the concept as “the art of disguise, of the unrecognizable and the imperceptible.”
Original Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/garden/at-the-international-contemporary-furniture-fair-going-for-the-remix.html