Coil Lamp at the Fab Color exhibition during NY Design Week.
May 20, 2012
May 20, 2012
May 17, 2012
Coil Lamp in Fab’s NY Design Week Pop-Up Shop
Recently accepted into the Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent collection, Coil Lamp will be popping it’s head into Soho during ICFF this week as a part of Fab.com’s “Color” themed pop-up shop. This pop-up shop coincides with an online sale—so now’s the time to pick up a Coil Lamp for The Nice Price™.
More info on the pop-up show below.
fab:
Here at Fab we love color. Strong, happy, polychromatic hues are at the core of our company soul. That’s why it was the obvious theme for our first physical pop-up shop. Yes, that’s right, we will have a brief stint as a brick and mortar. From May 17–22, we invade New York’s SoHo neighborhood with the Fab Color shop, where we display a color riot in the form of 150 hand-selected items from our favorite designers. You’ll find candy-tinted treats like a pink 1964 typewriter, a yellow and purple banana skateboard, rainbow-colored knuckledusters and a special red lacquered version of Alvar Aalto’s classic Stool 60.
Why are we doing this? Because it’s NY Design Week! For five, ahem, fab days, the city is abuzz with design presentations, launches and parties, from the official International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center to the abundance of independent off-site events all over town. Like ours. Which is not just ours, actually, as we got a little (a lot) of help from our friends.
Innovative modular carpet company FLOR has opened up its SoHo showroom to graciously host our Color Shop, along with a few other vibrant installations. Visionary Belgian design house Quinze & Milan has created an epic sculpture of mountainous proportions made of its iconic Pouf 01 seat. We’ll also display its newPilot Stool and the popular Jellyfish Chair and Primary Pouf collections. (These products will also be available in an online pop-up shop on Fab.com from May 17-31 at special prices.) But there’s more! Also, as a special treat to our visitors, we teamed up with AREAWARE and Quinze & Milan to introduce Big Red, a giant orange robot sculpture that’s based on award-winning designer David Weeks’ popular wood toy Cubebot. Quinze & Milan has recreated Cubebot in a ginormous version in comfy foam, so visitors can sit on his lap and rest their weary feet. And head. Big Red has really supportive shoulders, too.
But he’s not the only new friend you’ll meet. We decided that we wanted to get out in the real world and get to know our customers, so the Color Shop is staffed with Fab employees from our buying, marketing and supplier relations teams. Come and say hello! If you’re among the first 1000 visitors, we’ll give you a poster that looks like this:
And if you can’t stop by, don’t be sad. Our entire Color Shop will be available at Fab.com from May 17 to June 17.
May 17th-May 22nd
Thurs-Sat 11am-7pm Sun 12-6pm
FLOR, 142 Wooster St
Between Houston and Prince
May 15, 2012
I’ll be showing new work this coming week in NYC during ICFF in a “collaborative” show in the always-essential Noho Design District:
Once Removed is a design experiment with nine collaborators from across the globe, featuring new work by Atelier Takagi, Brendan Ravenhill, Craighton Berman, Fort Standard, Kelly Lamb, Rachel Boxnboim, Studio Swine, Tres Birds Workshop, and Vahakn Art & Design Studio. This exhibition will showcase objects bound not by a single aesthetic or function, but instead through a shared history of visual cues.
Each of the invited designers was asked to submit a set of personally snapped photographs from their daily routines or travels; show curators Jaime Kopke and Jordan Kushins selected a series of these images and distributed them to the group to become the basis for a new design. These pictures could be used in whatever way the individual/studio saw fit, from developing a product that suits some need in another’s world to simply incorporating a particular pattern, shape, color or material from one of the shots. Through this dedicated perspective swap, the designers help inform each others’ process from afar and create a collection united by a unique communal vision.
Once Removed will be on display in the Noho Design District at 22 Bond Street, from May 18th to the 21st. Hours are 12pm to 7pm.
You can see more of the backstory behind some of the photos on the Once Removed Facebook page and Tumblr. I’ll be posting my piece and the process behind it in the next week.
May 15, 2012
MANIFEST DESTINY
May 2012 marks a new chapter of Craighton Berman Studio, as it officially becomes my full-time endeavor.
After close to 7 years with gravitytank, I decided to take my next step and focus on my personal practice. Walking away from an amazing job doing interesting work with smart people wasn’t a decision that was easy to make, but one I ultimately had to do.
Those that know me, know I’m fiercely independent—a spirit embedded within me by my father, who has run his own business since the day he received his masters degree in the early 70s. Growing up I knew no other way other than the independent path, and that sense of autonomy has been my ideal state—no, my manifest destiny—ever since.
Going forward, Craighton Berman Studio will fully become a creative studio focused on the advancement of ideas—through both consulting and self-initiated projects.
The consulting services will focus on using visual-thinking to shape concepts, tell stories, and define experiences. Self-initiated projects will endeavor to bring ideas to life through tangible embodiments such as products, illustration, and digital experiences. (This description is a point of departure, and is sure to shift and focus as time unfolds.)
So here’s to the the past, and everyone who has encouraged me, supported me, and challenged me (most notably Emily). You all made me a more interesting maker and a more interesting human.
And here’s to the future—the era of continental expansion—and the boundless potential it holds.
May 15, 2012
The March 2012 “visual table of contents” for Dwell’s ‘Modern World’ section: the seventh in an ongoing series. Selected works:
Visit the #dwell tag on my sketchblog to see more from this ongoing collaboration.
April 18, 2012
April 17, 2012
Lytro Photos from TEDxSanJoseCA
Ren Ng, PhD, the founder of Lytro, was one of the speakers at TEDxSanJose 2012. He shared his much-buzzed-about lightfield camera technology—advanced optics that allows their camera to capture more data than conventional digital imaging devices—which allows users to do amazing things like pick a point of focus AFTER YOU TAKE YOUR PHOTO. Lytro’s VP of Marketing, Kira Wampler, snapped a few shots of me finishing up some drawings, which you can play with below. Try single clicking various areas of each photo to change the focus:
A beautiful camera, with some awe-inspiring tech to back it up.
April 16, 2012
This past weekend I had the opportunity to fly out to the Silicon Valley to graphic record TEDxSanJose 2012 on behalf of gravitytank. I visualized over 22 lectures in one day from a diverse cross-section of makers, thinkers, and doers from 14-year-old entrepreneurs to established research scientists. These visualizations are massive murals (8 ft x 4 ft) drawn on butcher paper live during the duration of the lectures. See in high res here.
April 3, 2012
"Relating a logical and productive strategy is important to persuading clients to do the right thing. It can help make a group of decision makers behave more constructively in the design process, but it doesn’t insure an interesting design result. Serious design, design that makes breakthroughs, design that inspires, is often a result of accidents, personal obsessions of the designer, and that designer’s intuition, determination, arrogance, and naivety. Great design solutions often fly in the face of logical explanations, even when the designer provides one."
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