ICFF Preview: Assembly Design + New Friends’ US Chair

Two NYC studios' styles collide for a striking, limited-edition furniture collaboration

In anticipation of the second official NYCxDesign week and this weekend’s opening of ICFF, New York-based furniture studio Assembly Design paired up with textile innovators New Friends for a beautiful, limited-edition piece. The “US Chair” perfectly balances and combines the strengths of each studio. Drawing on Assembly’s penchant for traditional designs and methods reinterpreted through a modern perspective, founders Peter Oyler and Nora Mattingly started …

AIGA Celebrates 100 Years with Soaring Interactive Installation

Collins' Experience Design group unveils a wave of one hundred projection-mapped clocks

The line between art, technology and design is more blurred than ever, and no group knows this better than the AIGA, the NYC-based professional association for design. To celebrate its centennial, the organization tapped renowned brand agency Collins to create a commemorative book celebrating some of the most influential designers and their work over the past 100 years. However, a book wouldn’t cut it for …

Kaho Abe of the NYU Game Innovation Lab

Exploring the intersection of wearables, fashion and bringing gaming into physical environments

In anticipation of NYU’s Brooklyn Polytechnic artist-in-residence Kaho Abe‘s presentation at Kill Screen‘s upcoming Two5six conference, we visited the one-time fashion designer, then wearable technology pioneer, now game developer on campus. The university’s buildings and atmosphere maintain a certain practical, quiet confidence. A geometric quadrangle lined with cherry blossoms acts as a center to blocks of research facilities, classrooms and lecture halls. However, one step …