NYC x Design

Christine Quinn on Tapping New York’s Vein of Design

New York Times – Currents | Events / By JULIE LASKY / Published: February 13, 2013

After months of vigorous planning, New York will have a 12-day celebration of design this spring extending over all five boroughs. NYC x Design will run from May 10 to 21, to coincide with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Frieze New York art fair on Randalls Island. Pronounced “NYC by Design” and interdisciplinary in scope, it will present the work of local designers and architects in museum exhibitions, conferences, studio tours, showroom displays, pop-up stores, art installations and a design film festival.

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The goal is greater visibility for an industry with untapped economic potential, said City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn (left), whose office is leading the project with a steering committee of more than 30 design leaders from business, civic and cultural groups. “We have more designers in New York City than any other U.S. city, but we do a terrible job promoting them in their totality,” she said.

Ideally, the festival would seed itself over time and multiply the number of New York design jobs, she said. In the future, “if we’re doing it right, there’s more set designers in Brooklyn and Queens, more furniture designers in Brooklyn and more jewelry designers in the South Bronx and Lower East Side.”

Festival events can be found at NYCxDesign.com, a Web site that was introduced this week. The program will continue to be updated.

 

Link to The New York Times Article

Glamour Wall – Video

For Fashion Week rather than creating a Pop-up store, Glamour Magazine created a Pop-up wall co-sponsored with CO Bigalow.  The event and wall introduced Glamour’s use of QR code on the Pop-up Wall and online.  We are grateful to Glamour Magazine for allowing The Displayers to share this video.

 

The Displayers we responsible for the design, construction and installation on the Pop-up wall.  During Fall 2012 New York Fashion Week, Glamour was all about instant beauty gratification with our Glamour Apothecary Wall, in NYC’s Meatpacking District. Readers lined up to shop the wall using their mobile wallet, the Glamour Friends & Fans app. Take a look at how we made it all happen, from construction to the big unveiling.