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We love the internet at least as much as the next guy, but it’s also really fun to get people together In Real Life sometimes. Here’s a couple design events that we’ve organized and curated. More are definitely on the way – be sure to follow our news page or twitter feed for announcements.

Uncomfortable Conversations

May 15-18, 2010
803 Washington St.
Meatpacking District, New York
www.uncomfortabledesign.com

“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
– Timothy Ferriss

We believe it’s the role of creatives to start the uncomfortable conversations that cause people to grow. Inspired by the quote above, we challenged a group of 15 designers to create something which provokes an uncomfortable (but also important) conversation.

Participating designers were given complete freedom with the type of object they created, the materials they used, and the topic of the conversation they set out to provoke.

As a result, we ended up with a wonderfully broad body of work – housewares and furniture, jewelry and fashion, graphics and video. On the night of May 16th, 400 people came out to the party. It was a great success! If you weren’t able to be there, watch the video.

Sponsored by:

NY Designs
Subports
CoDesign by FastCompany
EFFEN Vodka
Publicide
Pomp&Clout

Featuring new work from:

Ana Linares
Andrew Haarsager
Chrissy Conant
Craighton Berman
Demian Repucci
Design Glut
Dominic Wilcox
Karl Zahn
Materious
Matthew Waldman of Nooka
MSLK
NYDesigns and Design Glut
Paul Loebach
Sruli Recht
Vincent Lai of Skinny Vinny
Will Robison of Subports

Press Coverage:

Contemporist
MoCoLoco
NOTCOT
Metropark
Design Milk
New York Magazine
Josh Spear
LS:NGlobal
ArtSlope
2+3D
DesignBoom
Core77
Dwell
Reactions
Metropolis
No Smarties
Fast Company

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Uncomfortable Conversations, Offsite at ICFF 2010

Come to our show! We’ve curated an offsite event at ICFF this year, with 15 participating designers. More at uncomfortabledesign.com. We believe it’s the role of creatives to start the uncomfortable conversations that cause people to grow. “A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing [...]

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In Which We Held A Show

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