Sorry for the lack of updates, but we’ve been working with the City Counsel of Perth to manufacture and distribute our NRMs in Australia. We’re also in the midst of tapping local artists for the artwork!

For NY Design week next month, we’ll be exhibiting at BOFFO, Wanted Design and Model Citizens, so please stop by — more details soon.

Lastly, we have a few exciting new projects that we’ll be unleashing in the coming weeks.

2ndLife: the Franz table in full effect

Much thanks to Alexandra Polier!

Much thanks to Inhabitat (2ndLife & NRMs), The Huffington Post, Design Milk, New York Magazine, & everyone for the kind words!

Our exhibit…

Setting up of for the Model Citizens exhibit @ the Chelsea Museum.

2ndLife is nearly complete…

Above: Franz, the Duke of Reichstadt is a kid’s art table That doubles as a chalkboard. Several more pieces can been viewed here.

First 10 NRMs are out n’ about in Manhattan & Brooklyn.

Finally! Our first run of LC2 LoveSeats is out and ready for order…

UPDATE:

Featured by MocoLoco.

Picked up the first run of NRM chairs… more soon.

UPDATE:

We have the artwork from Milton Glaser, Fawad Khan, and many others and have sent everything off to the printer.

Tucker Viemeister is an industrial design institution. He co-founded Smart Design, designed Oxo Good Grips, created breakthrough products for Cuisinart as well as Timex, founded frogdesign NYC, & helped make Razorfish what it is today. In 2007, New York Magazine selected him as a “Living Design Innovator.”

Here is an excerpt of our interview on March 10th, 2011.

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Over my career, there has been a lot of discussion about the word industrial design.  It sounds too industrial.  I think it’s cool.  It doesn’t describe what we do especially, but it explains (that) it’s different than graphic design or architecture. You get the idea.  People are always going to want stuff and need people to produce it.

I’m excited that learning, play and design are the same thing.  All are about learning by doing.  I’m also excited about food.  Food is a big problem in the world in general.  Too much, not enough, etc.  It’s another learning by doing. Kids can learn a lot in school about cooking, what tastes good, what’s healthy…

…that’s the thing about industrial designers, the system and the object can’t be divorced.  When we’re designing teapots or a school, you’re designing a ritual, a system.  When designing a library it makes sense to think about how the librarian (is) going to be a main part of the design. Know where you want to go.  Don’t ask everyone for the answer, but on the flip side, ASK everyone for the answer.