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Design Glut's in-house product design studio is known for our line of intelligent, socially-relevant products. We also provide innovative design solutions to outside clients. Learn more.
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November 19, 2008
NEW PRODUCTS
Check out the online store for new products by Design Glut! We've launched the World Links necklace, which has the continents of the world connected by links of chain around your neck. And our new Cubic Switchplates play tricks with your eyes. They're only 3mm deep, but it looks like they're protruding inches off the wall.
October 14, 2008
NEW ONLINE STORE AND PRESS
We just redid our online store to make it easier for our customers. The new layout is simpler to browse and has some additional functionality. Fancy Schmancy! We also have new press to report: Elle Decoration, Max, and 5 Au Clock.
September 21, 2008
NEW PRESS AND STORES
The October issue of Metropolitan Home covers the Slow Food Tray as part of a group of products using words as decoration. We also have three new stores: Spring and Stewart and Stand here in NY, and Composition in Colorado.
September 2, 2008
NEW PRESS: SURFACE
The new edition of Surface reports of the trend of designers "using oil as fuel for thought." Crude Black is included.
August 22, 2008
NEW PRESS: DFUN
The Crude Jewelry was just featured as the cover story in the current issue of DFUN, a Taiwanese fashion and design magazine.
July 15, 2008
NEW PRESS: WALLPAPER
The August '08 issue of Wallpaper is hitting newsstands right now. Check out the interviews with "NYC's new design wave": Todd Bracher, Design Glut, Takeshi Miyakawa, and Test Collective.
July 10, 2008
NEW PRESS: WATCH
The Smoking Gun was just featured in the latest edition of Watch.
July 9, 2008
ABOUT DESIGN GLUT
We’ve expanded the About Us area - check it out to get a better feel for who we are and what we do.
June 30, 2008
NEW PRESS: MAX
The fashion magazine Max just published a great-looking piece on Crude Black. We can't actually read it, but we're hoping they said nice things.
June 23, 2008
SMOKING GUN NECKLACE
The Smoking Gun is now available on a chain! It makes one pimped out necklace.
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• Brooklyn Salsa Company
• byAMT
• Cake
• Character
• Citizen:Citizen
• Curatorium
• Diaroogle.com
• Domestic Aesthetic
• Exit9
• FuckOffSarahPalin.com
• Harry Allen
• Mint
• Nooka
• NOTCOT.com
• Pomp&Clout
• redstr/collective
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• Robert Langhorn
• Skinny Vinny
• Sonic Design
• Supermarket
• Swiss Miss (upcoming)
• Todd Bracher
• TZ Design
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July 25, 2008
Can design change the world?
Design can only change the world if it leaves the small circle of design-community intellectuals and reaches the people it is meant to help. That abandoned project in your portfolio probably won't change anything. Neither will a lovely rendering, all by itself. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that change requires hard work, hard deadlines, real objects and the building of complex organizational structures.
A year and a half ago, Liz Kinnmark and Kegan Fisher founded Design Glut, with little experience and lots of guts and idealism. It's been a whirlwind experience. After four years of receiving design education, we could talk about form and and gesture and concept until we were blue in the face. But when it came to putting our own designs into production, and building a business structure, the language was often foreign.
What is a purchase order? How about a Tax ID numbers? What does C.O.D. mean? The list goes on... We quickly realized how ignorant we were about basic business. It would have been great if there were a resource to get us up to speed, we thought. And the more we thought about it, we realized since it wasn't out there, we should make it.
We hope to inspire others to build the architecture necessary to turn their own dreams into actions. Designglut.com is our way of taking a step forward to strengthen the community of design-driven entrepreneurs. We know we are not the only ones trying to figure this stuff out, trying to create a niche in the marketplace and trying to positively influence people through functional, accessible objects.
The site will be updated frequently with interviews and editorials. It will include conversations with innovative design firms and consultancies, owners of design boutiques across the country, and little-known designers starting to make waves. In addition, we are compiling industry events, covering those we attend, and writing about the lessons that we've learned in our experience starting Design Glut.
Our first week of interviews includes discussions about running a successful design consultancy (with Klaus Rosburg of Sonic Design), why Italian furniture manufactures really aren’t that scary (with Brad Ascalon of Brad Ascalon Studio NYC), and insights into the Do's and Don'ts of approaching design boutiques (with Matt Bird of the Curatorium).
Welcome to the newest network of designers contributing their stories, and sharing knowledge of what it takes to thrive, today, in the design economy. In order to best push this resource in a useful direction, we would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the matter. Don't hesitate to leave a comment or send an email. Designglut.com is now a resource for you.
A year and a half ago, Liz Kinnmark and Kegan Fisher founded Design Glut, with little experience and lots of guts and idealism. It's been a whirlwind experience. After four years of receiving design education, we could talk about form and and gesture and concept until we were blue in the face. But when it came to putting our own designs into production, and building a business structure, the language was often foreign.
What is a purchase order? How about a Tax ID numbers? What does C.O.D. mean? The list goes on... We quickly realized how ignorant we were about basic business. It would have been great if there were a resource to get us up to speed, we thought. And the more we thought about it, we realized since it wasn't out there, we should make it.
We hope to inspire others to build the architecture necessary to turn their own dreams into actions. Designglut.com is our way of taking a step forward to strengthen the community of design-driven entrepreneurs. We know we are not the only ones trying to figure this stuff out, trying to create a niche in the marketplace and trying to positively influence people through functional, accessible objects.
The site will be updated frequently with interviews and editorials. It will include conversations with innovative design firms and consultancies, owners of design boutiques across the country, and little-known designers starting to make waves. In addition, we are compiling industry events, covering those we attend, and writing about the lessons that we've learned in our experience starting Design Glut.
Our first week of interviews includes discussions about running a successful design consultancy (with Klaus Rosburg of Sonic Design), why Italian furniture manufactures really aren’t that scary (with Brad Ascalon of Brad Ascalon Studio NYC), and insights into the Do's and Don'ts of approaching design boutiques (with Matt Bird of the Curatorium).
Welcome to the newest network of designers contributing their stories, and sharing knowledge of what it takes to thrive, today, in the design economy. In order to best push this resource in a useful direction, we would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the matter. Don't hesitate to leave a comment or send an email. Designglut.com is now a resource for you.
