the Designer Pages blog

We’re going to have some downtime starting at 3am (EST - NYC) for about an hour while we run some updates. Sorry for the short notice.

One of the hot new design studios on the Designer Pages radar is the team over at Total Metal Resource, Inc. (TMRnyc), a first-time exhibitor at the notorious local show BKLYN DESIGNS which will take place May 8-10, 2009 in DUMBO at St. Ann’s Warehouse. One hilarious studio visit, an hour of video coverage and a few beers later, Designer Pages and TMRnyc teamed up to bring you the Red Hot Wired Side Table, a special Designer Pages edition of the original version which we are raffling off during BKLYN DESIGNS.

How to enter? It’s SUPER easy. Just visit the raffle link and register with Designer Pages. No worries about identifying your status as a “designer” or a “supplier”, for this competition it doesn’t matter. A winner will be picked at random and announced on the evening of May 10, the day BKLYN DESIGNS closes.

As marketing partner to this show, the Designer Pages team will also host additional daily raffles for iPod Nano’s for show guests tweeting (via Twitter) the most valuable conversation about designs on the warehouse floor. Stay tuned for more details coming soon!

Last night, I had the extreme pleasure of partaking in the late-night showing at the SVA Theater of director Gary Huswit’s new film Objectified, a thorough and enlightening documentary about the changing role of product design in modern life. Hustwit, the director the widely acclaimed film Helvetica which examines the history of graphic designs, was present to introduce the film and for the post-show Q&A with “techno-organic” designer extraordinaire Karim Rashid and Objectified photographer Luke Geissbuller.

Among those design world heavyweights interviewed about their design processes and opinions regarding the modern discipline and market were Marc Newson, the Bourrellec Brothers, Hella Jongerius, IHT columnist Alice Rawsthorn, Chris Bangle of BMW, Karim Rashid, founders of IDEO and Smart Design, Naota Fukasawa, Dieter Rams and Paola Antonelli of MoMA, to name just a small handful. Commenting on anything and everything from low-cost designs at IKEA, the marketing of design at Target, the tradition of craft, the diminishing shelf-life of technological gadgets, Eastern vs. Western approaches towards design, limited-edition chairs and even robots, Objectified presents an insightful, authentic and accurate portrait of our relationships to the furniture and tools we use and the spaces we inhabit. This film is an ABSOLUTE must-see whether you are a design dilettante or devotee.

The film opens in New York at the IFC starting May 8th.