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Friday, May 11th, 2012

Product Placement 4.5: Heart of Glass, 5/20, with Harry Allen, Omer Arbel, Bec Brittain, Johan Liden

Product Placement 4.5: Heart of Glass
Sunday, May 20, 1-3 pm (presentations start promptly at 1:30pm)
WANTED Design
269 11th Avenue (btwn W. 27th and W. 28th Sts.)

As we continue with our spring term of guerilla Product Placements, we evoke our love of Blondie and invite you to our latest edition, held as part of ICFF extravaganza WANTED Design. This installment explores a range of innovative glass items and will feature:

• Product and interior powerhouse Harry Allen

• Architect and Bocci creative director Omer Arbel

• Lighting designer extraordinaire Bec Brittain

• Aruliden principal and product provocateur Johan Liden

Open to all with no RSVP required, although trade guests may pre-register for free at 2012.wanteddesignnyc.com/attend

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Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Product Placement at MAD: Design for Kids Feb. 16 @ 7pm


What’s going to be the first Product Placement event of 2012? Glad you asked. Kimberly and I are talking the series to the Museum of Arts & Design Feb. 16 for a special fundraising version that’s part of the museum’s The Home Front 2012: American Design Nowseries. The evening’s topic is design for kids, and the speakers will be a mix of new names and old friends:

• DwellStudio founder and creative director Christiane Lemieux
• Rockwell Group principal and studio leader Barry Richards
• Furniture, lighting, and toy designer extraordinaire David Weeks

The details:
Feb. 16 at 7pm
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
 New York, NY 10019
 


Tickets:
$12 general /
 $10 members and students
 / $6 Product Placement mailing list (use discount code MADPRODUCT). Call 800.838.3006 or click here to purchase tickets.

Architects & Artisans also just did a piece on us and the event. Check it out and leave a comment. And rest assured, we’ll be adding info soon about additional forthcoming PP events.

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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Product Placement 4.3: Texture in Design, Tuesday, Nov. 29

Have we saved the best Product Placement for last? I don’t know: It’s kind of like asking which of your kids you like the best. Or which trousers you’d save first if your apartment caught on fire. (Finding a pair that fit well? That’s no picnic for women, I tell you.) But fear not. You don’t have to choose, you just need to attend. So join Kimberly and me at the final Product Placement of the fall 2011 season:

Product Placement 4.3: Texture in Design

Featuring presentations by:

• Educator and industrial designer Rama Chorpash, who shapes minds as the Director of Product Design at Parsons The New School

• Ross Menuez, the quicksilver talent behind the downtown-cool fashion label Salvor Projects

• Stanley Ruiz, he of the quietly beautiful furniture and objects that fluidly meld art and technology

• Jewelry and product designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew (by:AMT), whose mischievous pieces delight the senses and the mind

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 6.30-8.30pm (Presentations begin promptly at 7pm)
Rockwell Group

5 Union Square West – 8th Floor

New York, NY 10003

The event is free but space is limited. Please RSVP with your name and number in your party to thisisproductplacement@gmail.com (Due to demand, only those who receive a confirmation will be able to attend.)

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Omer Arbel’s Sandcasted 19 Platters

For a while now we’ve meant to post this video depicting the making of these platters, which Canadian designer/Bocci creative director Arbel previewed for us at Product Placement 3.2. In short, the 19 is an exploration of sand-casting techniques, whereby a shape is pressed into sand to create a void; molten metal is then roughly poured into the void. The process creates some overspill which, in conventional circumstances, is then cleaned up post-production and the piece refinished. But not here, where the overspill is left to add a coarse, lava-like texture around the polished brass. These one-of-a-kind platters are exquisite. But don’t take our word for it: Watch the film and judge for yourself.

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Friday, May 13th, 2011

Product Placement 3.4: Color in Design – May 24

For our final Product Placement of the spring 2011 season, we’ve put together a blockbuster, with media stars, cult favs, up-and-comers, and behind-the-scenes powerhouses. Featured speakers:

• Happy Chic purveyor and Top Design judge Jonathan Adler
• Tai Ping residential design director Yasmina Kossmann
• Furniture and lighting wunderkind Jonah Takagi
• Textile provocateur Suzanne Tick

It’ll all go down Tuesday, May 24, 6.30-8.30 pm, at Rockwell Group, 5 Union Square West, New York.

Per usual, the event is free but space is limited. Please RSVP with your name and number in your party to reserve a space / per building security: thisisproductplacement@gmail.com. And we have to shout this: DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND, ONLY THOSE WHO RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND.

Also , great news: We’ll be back in the fall hosting another series of Product Placement events at Rockwell Group. If you have any suggestions for themes or designers, drop us a line at the above. Thanks!

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Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Product Placement in Domus!

What are we trying to achieve with Product Placement? On the eve of our Milan wrap-up, we have a chat with Domus about the series and why we want to be the punk rock of the design set. Enjoy. And our thanks again to Alan Rapp, who made it happen!

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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Product Placement 3.3: Milan 2011 Insights – April 27 at 6.30pm

We’re back from Milan, and before it all becomes a dream, we announce:

Product Placement 3.3: Milan 2011 Insights from a Designer, a Retailer, a Publicist, and a Journalist

This is going to be a little different than our other PPs, as clearly we can’t talk about one product for five minutes. Instead, you’ll get five minutes of trends, observations, and musings from four presenters with very different roles in and perspectives on the industry. The featured speakers:

• Barry Richards, Principal and Studio Leader, Rockwell Group

• Kari Woldum, Vice President, Merchandising at Design Within Reach

• Kimberly Oliver, Associate Director, Camron PR

• Julie Taraska, Senior Editor, Gilt Home and Contributor to Fast Company, Details, Wallpaper*, and Metropolis

All will be happening :
Wednesday, April 27, 6.30-8.30 (Presentations begin promptly at 7)
Rockwell Group
5 Union Square West
New York, NY 10003

Seating is limited, with RSVP mandatory for building security. To attend, please send an email with your name and the number in your party to thisisproductplacement@gmail.com.

See you there!

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Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Product Placement 3.2: Tabletop is on for Tuesday, April 5


We’re on a roll here at Product Placement, so we’re back with another thrilling installment on Tuesday, April 5, at the Rockwell Group’s New York office. The theme’s tabletop, and the fantastic presenters are:

• Omer Arbel (designer of the medals for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games and the creative director of contemporary furnishings company Bocci)

• Todd Bracher (Among the most globally successful American product designers working today, but the least known in his own country)

• Sarah Cihat / Michael Miller (A ceramics designer + a metalsmith = incredible collaborations)

• KleinReid (Vases, lighting, serveware, and a collaboration with 104-year-old design legend Eva Zeisel: There’s nothing these two can’t do)

Seating is limited, with RSVP mandatory for building security. To attend, please send an email with your name and the number in your party to thisisproductplacement@gmail.com.

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