B.Light Design

And last but not least for Design Week, Break-Down: Design In Your Hands. “StyleFactory.com, Design Milk and Bobby Berk Home present an interactive design exhibition where you can make design happen, LIVE! Party-goers can influence the products that StyleFactory will produce by voting for their favorite design using social media and mobile devices.”

My Jackie/Marilyn Frame is up for voting.

Bobby Berk Home Soho
59 Crosby Street
New York, NY

Saturday, May 14 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Next up for Design Week, Use Me. The American Design Club is holding its 6th show, “an exhibition by 45 young American designers of unapologetically functional objects, each of which exhibits a strong sense of purpose, intelligent use of materials, and the ability to do one thing extremely well.” The list of designers showing is pretty impressive, I’m honored to be among them.

I will be showing the Secret Passageway Switch, and it will be for sale.

The American Design Building at Great Jones Lumber
45 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012

Friday May 13 – Monday May 16, 12PM to 7PM

There is a lot of great stuff going on. First up, Design Week. I’ll be displaying and selling Jar Lamps (both bourbon and walnut) and Turned Mallets at Model Citizens. If this year is anything like last year, it is going to be incredible.

Chelsea Art Museum
556 W 22nd St.
New York, NY 10011

May 13 - 15

This image is from an article in a Swiss newspaper. I have no idea what the article actually says, but it is about Tina Roth Eisenberg (better know as swissmiss). So I can all but guarantee, that it is a gushing article filled with nothing but incredible things to say about an amazing person. For those of you who don’t already know (all two of you probably), Tina is a blogger extraordinaire, a fantastic designer, and a bringer together-er of people.

If you can read Swiss, here is the full article.

Oh and what’s that in the top right corner? I’m just saying.

The lovely ladies of Design Glut had some really nice things to say about the model citizens show.

One more day left for the model citizens show. I met so many great designers and artists. There work is incredible, I was honored to be among them. I’m still trying to digest everything, but here are some shots of what is being shown.

Melissa McElroy is a designer, artists, founder of Greenpoint Originals. She and I have somethings brewing, more on that later. The clip below is an interview CNN did with Melissa on freelancing. She comes on around the 1:11 mark. Take a look at those candelsticks she photographing. Look famlilar?

I was at the AmDC’s Purpose and Worth show last night at DSW Flatiron. The show had some great pieces in it. The highlights for me were seeing one of Lindsey Adelman’s chandeliers in person (they are incredible), Leon Ransmeier’s glass coin bank (I want one), and Karl Zahn’s Pallet Mirror (what a great use of material).

The pieces are still at DWR today, I recommend checking it out if you get the chance.

I’m currently reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. And I’ve never had so many people stare at my book on the subway before. They can’t take their eyes off of the cover. Good work Will Staehle. The book is pretty good, but (according to the crazy lady on the 6 train) not nearly as good as Kavalier and Clay.

By the way, the inside jacket is just as cool.

I was at BRKLYN Designs this weekend. There were some great pieces there.

I met Hugh Hayden (nice guy), designer of these great ball-pit ball chairs. He had a piece in Hue Are You? as well.

My favorite piece though was by uhuru. They took a new pass at one of their signature pieces, the Stoolen.

The original Stoolen is scrap wood beautifully formed into a cylinder with a found bicycle rim holding it all together. uhuru’s latest is the Metal Stoolen. Made of leftover steel lengths arranged in a similar pattern. The steel fills up the empty space of the wooden Stoolen. Beautiful design, way to keep working on a great idea.