ICFF Pt.2

In continuation from last week is Part 2 of ICFF. This is the furniture and other miscellaneous products from New York Design Week. The above image is from the New York Design Center,  celebrating the launch of New York Design Hunting.

GEOMETRIC TABLES

Egg Hawley Tables | Fairtlough Reflection Collection | Edwin Blue Turner Table

CAGED TABLES

Neal Feay Studio Timber Table & Turntable Slated Tables | Horgan Becket Mesh Series | Blu Dot Scamp

CHAIR

Bellboy Water Tower Chair | Jeni Tu Linea Chair | Fiftytwothousand's Feast in the House of Simon Chair | Blu Dot Hot Mesh Chair

DETAILED SOFAS

Autoban Throne Sofa | Blu Dot Cleon Sofa | Polart Sofa

Wall Shelving/Coverings

Walltech Shelf | Piet Boon Concrete Wallpaper

TEXTILES

Sonya Winner Holey Bubbles Collection | Blu Dot Patchwork Rug | Paul Smith & Maharam Point Fabric

JONATHAN ADLER

Inlaid Glass Animals | Large Planters | Collaboration with Kohler

MISCELLANEOUS

 Bike @ Wanted Design NYC | The Guest by Jaime Hayon for Llardo

 

Zuny Leather Hippos | Molo's Paper Wall Blue Booth  | Areaware by Jonas Damon Alarm Dock | The Future Perfect Mirrored Shelves

Photo Credits: Design Milk, Teroforma, Tyler Wisler,  BellBoy, Design Hunting, Moco Loco, Apartment Therapy, Metropolis, Capree Kimball, Haily Zaki, Barbara Segal

ICFF May 19-22, 2012 Lighting

ICFF the best time of year, in my opinion. I was planing on attending this year but figured the money spent would be best put towards prototypes since the intention is to exhibit next year.  I spent my entire weekend on twitter keeping up on the latest products. This week will focus only on lighting and the following week furniture. Enjoy!!

Tom Dixon brought his London Underground to New York Design Week. A basement theatre was transformed into a Luminosity show, a subterranean broadcasting station from Surface magazine, a pop-up shop from Fab.com and a coffee bar from Stumptown Coffee Roasters.  

In addition the FLOR showroon in SoHo featured the Fab Color shop, on display 150 hand-selected colorful items from their favorite designers.

 

 Pendants

Peteris Zilbers Mood | Delany Light Works Neon Plexi fixture | Tomomi Sayuda's Floral Pendants | David Turbridge Lights

Autoban Flying Spider Light | Gabriel Scott Grace Kelly Light | Iacoli & McAllister Lights | Pablo Pardo's Chandelier

Table Lamps 

Areaware Table Lamps | Flos Bio-on Lamp | Stickbulb RUX LED Light

Castor Lamp | Humanscale Lamp | Flos Gun Lamp | Qisdesign Aurelia LED Lamp

Rich Brilliant Willing

Lindsey Edelman Studio

Roll & Hill - Rudi

2012 ICFF Lighting Award Winner - Santa & Cole

Photo Credits: Design Milk, Diana Budds, Inhabitat, Santa & Cole, David John, Tom Dixon, Fab, Moco Loco, Apartment Therapy, Metropolis, DWR

 

Business Card Follow-up

This week I wanted to do a quick recap on the business cards I had ordered from Moo.

I cannot say enough good things about this company. Pricing might be slightly more but you can get multiple images, backside print without any additional fees, and it arrives with a handy carrying case. I placed the order on 4/13 and received them 4/25 (5 days before the estimated delivery date). The cards are beautiful in weight, finish, and most importantly print quality. Anyone that is looking around for a good company for cards should really consider Moo. 

 

I will be placing another order with them soon. I have to get my husband some cards for when we go to NeoCon next month. And so they don’t look as girly when he hands them out I changed the background to a somewhat more masculine look. I think I might even print some new (revised) ones for myself.

 

As for the ink pens I ordered (from another company)…all I can say is that I’m glad I didn’t order a lot. The print quality was horribly pixelated. The pen itself was very cheaply made. I thought I was getting something with weight and metal but instead got metallic painted plastic. Oh well...lesson learned.

 
 

Manufacturing Show

Now that the CAD drawings are wrapping up it’s time to source a manufacturer for prototypes. There was a local manufacturing show taking place this past week so I though it’d be worth checking out.

The show mainly catered to the machining parts industry so I really didn’t find many prospects, except for one. I’m looking for someone that can offer a striped acrylic. I’d much prefer a way to infuse the colors of acrylic together, but the way this company applied colors to their sample, it didn’t look too bad.  However when they told me how much it would cost for a mold, I about fainted. $1500-$4000 (and this is just one component of the lighting fixture). Once the mold was created they said it would only cost around .75 per piece to make. But, on the down side again the mold is only good for so many runs.

Thomasnet has some other companies I’d like to check out first before I commit to anything. This will definitely be a pricey venture considering I’m sourcing for 5 different lighting fixtures. Hmm…maybe Kickstarter is in my near future.