Way back in December we were approached by curators Dan Rubinstein and Jen Renzi to participate in their ICFF offsite show, InDisposed. At that point the show seemed so far in the future, but lo and behold, we set up tomorrow!
The brief they put together is amazing. In their own words:
As environmentalism has infiltrated contemporary [...]
I adore street art. Wooster Collective is the definitive site to find the freshest work going up on streets all around the world. Their online archive keeps a record of this transient art. And no, street art isn’t all tagging and graffiti. Some of the pieces I find most enchanting are 3D.
Seen on the streets [...]
Dean Chapman and Ed Kilduff started Pollen Design in their Brooklyn apartments. They were both working for Smart Design when they thought, “Why not just get clients ourselves?” So they went off and started their own consultancy. After establishing Pollen and developing many successful products for their clients, they thought, “Why not just develop and [...]
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Blogger vs. Blogger: We sat down with Josh Spear and found out how he’s come to run a virtual media empire at the age of 24. Josh is one of the youngest marketing strategists in the world. In addition to JoshSpear.com, his internationally recognized trend-spotting blog, he is a founding partner of Undercurrent, a digital think-tank focused on new ways to reach young people without interrupting them.
BLOGGING
Did you actively promote your site, or did the traffic just grow organically?
No, I never actively promoted the site. I was always proud to say I never marketed it. I never did banner-swaps with anybody. I was fortunate enough to start the site when design blogs were few and far-between. There was Grace from Design*Sponge, Josh from Cool Hunting, myself, and only a few others. [...]
I’ve never been fully sure just what The Apartment does. After interviewing the founder, Stefan Boublil, I found out that this confusion stems from the fact that they do everything. Really. No project is too far-fetched, as long as they find it interesting. They’ve successfully avoided putting themselves in a box. Stefan is strikingly philosophical, [...]
Character is a little shop in Nolita, full of strange oddities that can’t help but make you smile. Its merchandise ranges from nostalgic childhood objects, such as the Little Prince, and Tin Tin lunch boxes, to high end design. Much of the work in the shop has a story behind it, and if you linger [...]
