3rd Ward is a haven for artists, designers, and freelancers. They’ll give you a desk, a bike, internet, plus computer lab and photo studio and shop access. They’ll teach you how to weld or make websites or screenprint. Really anything they can think of to make their members happy. Jason told us, “We obsess over [...]
I ended up at a party at VOOS the other night, on N 3rd St. in Williamsburg, and felt like I’d just walked into some strange alternate reality. This huge space that I’d never seen before was filled with designs by many, many of the people we’ve interviewed. Takeshi Miyakawa’s Fractal 23 cabinet was there. [...]
It was a great honor to visit Takeshi’s studio last week and interview the master himself. His architectural background mixes with an interest in pure geometry, impeccable craft, and poetic concepts, leading to furniture that is completely fresh and absolutely unlike anything else.
Rite of Spring cantilevered storage by Takeshi Miyakawa
The Rite of Spring piece you [...]
Tags: Architecture, Brooklyn, Business, Creative, Design, Furniture, Interview, New York, Williamsburg, Woodworking
Shanan Campanaro of Eskayel is the third designer we interviewed in our series on local wallpaper companies. Also a fine artist, Shanan derives her patterns from pieces of her paintings. And unlike the other companies we’ve met, Shanan’s paper is digitally printed, which allows her the flexibility of custom-sizing one-offs that will exactly fit your [...]
We were introduced to George Weld, the owner of Egg, by our friend Ryan over at Supermarket. George became a restaurateur through the sort of wonderful non-linear path that we love documenting here at Design Glut. His restaurant focuses on high-quality Southern cuisine, and he owns a farm where he grows his own food and [...]
Tags: Brooklyn, Business, Creative, Farming, Interview, New York, Restaurants, Sustainability, Williamsburg
Liz and I met Klaus Rosburg of Sonic design when he was unassumingly pacing back and forth in front of his wall of cuckoo clocks during ICFF. Little did we know about Sonic design – the consultancy he built from the ground up; or the wide range of work he’s completed for a series [...]
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