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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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• Mint
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August 1, 2008
Not Your Neighborhood Flea Market
It seems fitting to end our first week of blog posts with the story of how Design Glut started. It was the spring of 2007, and we were a couple months from graduating college. Kegan discovered this thing called the Designboom Mart. The Mart gave us access to the world of trade shows, introduced us to the world of design as a business, and convinced us to form a partnership.
Liz Kinnmark and Kegan Fisher, NYC Designboom Mart, 2007
www.designboom.com
The DesignBoom Mart was stepping into the unknown for us. It is a cash and carry market that happens every year at ICFF, as well as at other trade shows worldwide. The folks at Design Boom describe it as "...an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde, and become familiar with their work.”
For us, it meant a chance to participate in ICFF without throwing down thousands of dollars. We applied through their website, submitting images of our products. We got the good news that we had been acccepted, paid the $300 fee, and suddenly it was happening. We had an entry point into the coveted trade show.
We also had a four foot table to fill with an egg cup and a coffee cup. This seemed like a waste. We put our heads together... How could we come up with more stuff to fill the space? It was in that moment that we started meeting in our spare time and designing together. Looking back, Design Glut probably would not exist today were it not for the chance stumbling onto Designboom.com. The Crude collection and the Hookmaker were designed in those last-minute brainstorming sessions right before the show.
We entered the show as two designers sharing a table. We came out of the show realizing that we worked so well together, we should probably start a company. We came up with the name Design Glut, bought Designglut.com, and hastily put something up there, mainly because we'd met Harry from MoCoLoco.com at the show and he'd told us he'd blog the Crude Jewelry, but only if we had a website. It was there, behind that four-foot table, with our respective business cards guarding our products, we realized we needed to flush out all those little details that give one the appearance of having a company. After all, when someone asks what your brand’s name is, you certainly don't get very far with the response, “We don’t have one”.
And while yes, we did sell products, and came relatively close to recouping our investment, the real advantage of the Mart was everything we learned, the people we met, the confidence they gave us, and the boost of press coverage.
I recommend the Mart to any young designer looking for an inexpensive way in to the design world, but I caution, this is still ICFF. The level of quality of everything there is very high and very intimidating. Be prepared, make business cards, figure out packaging, price points, wholesale costs and shipping. Write down every possible question you would ask yourself, and then answer them. Half the battle is how you display your products. You have a table surface, and a wall; apply your skills as a designer to distinguish your presentation. Everyone drapes a cloth over their table; think bigger. Always think bigger.
Liz Kinnmark and Kegan Fisher, NYC Designboom Mart, 2007
www.designboom.com
The DesignBoom Mart was stepping into the unknown for us. It is a cash and carry market that happens every year at ICFF, as well as at other trade shows worldwide. The folks at Design Boom describe it as "...an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde, and become familiar with their work.”
For us, it meant a chance to participate in ICFF without throwing down thousands of dollars. We applied through their website, submitting images of our products. We got the good news that we had been acccepted, paid the $300 fee, and suddenly it was happening. We had an entry point into the coveted trade show.
We also had a four foot table to fill with an egg cup and a coffee cup. This seemed like a waste. We put our heads together... How could we come up with more stuff to fill the space? It was in that moment that we started meeting in our spare time and designing together. Looking back, Design Glut probably would not exist today were it not for the chance stumbling onto Designboom.com. The Crude collection and the Hookmaker were designed in those last-minute brainstorming sessions right before the show.
We entered the show as two designers sharing a table. We came out of the show realizing that we worked so well together, we should probably start a company. We came up with the name Design Glut, bought Designglut.com, and hastily put something up there, mainly because we'd met Harry from MoCoLoco.com at the show and he'd told us he'd blog the Crude Jewelry, but only if we had a website. It was there, behind that four-foot table, with our respective business cards guarding our products, we realized we needed to flush out all those little details that give one the appearance of having a company. After all, when someone asks what your brand’s name is, you certainly don't get very far with the response, “We don’t have one”.
And while yes, we did sell products, and came relatively close to recouping our investment, the real advantage of the Mart was everything we learned, the people we met, the confidence they gave us, and the boost of press coverage.
I recommend the Mart to any young designer looking for an inexpensive way in to the design world, but I caution, this is still ICFF. The level of quality of everything there is very high and very intimidating. Be prepared, make business cards, figure out packaging, price points, wholesale costs and shipping. Write down every possible question you would ask yourself, and then answer them. Half the battle is how you display your products. You have a table surface, and a wall; apply your skills as a designer to distinguish your presentation. Everyone drapes a cloth over their table; think bigger. Always think bigger.
