Entries Tagged as 'rants'

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Welcoming New Year with New Category-Specific Search

Hello 2012. Good bye 2011, though you were a fabulous year! A lot of new engine parts under the hood, and I mean that quite literally. Beyond our new mobile property, Showrooms.com (apps for iPhone and Android), nearly all of DesignerPages.com has been reconstructed, that which you see, and more importantly, that which you don’t.
In […]

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Happy New Year from Designer Pages!

On the first Monday in 2011, we thought it best to give you a quick update on where we’re at… and where we’re going.
2010
2010 was a big year for Designer Pages. We took on the role as Digital Partner for NeoCon 2010, building the new NeoCon.com and implementing digital initiatives to extend the influence […]

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Designer Pages Celebrates the 1-Year Anniversary of IDNY!

It’s hard to believe the summer is over…and even harder to believe that we’re celebrating the 1-year anniversary of IDNY, the Designer Pages “offline” event series, this Thursday at Allsteel. RSVP here. We initiated the monthly event series 1-year ago to connect online with offline, and vice versa. We wanted a place to meet, mingle […]

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Why Design Now? and The Expectation of Innovation

The medium is the message is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. Wikipedia
This past weekend I went to Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum for Why Design Now? - the […]

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Revamping Facebook - Designer Pages Moves to a New Page

We’re (finally) doing our Facebook page right! While we may have caused a bit of confusion between the previous Facebook group and Facebook page - we’re streamlining all future activity to a brand new page: http://www.facebook.com/designerpagesonline
Why? We blame some of it on Facebook. Did you know you can’t change your business category once the […]

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

MMPI and Designer Pages Unveil NeoCon.com

You may have heard rumors or seen some recent press, but big things are happening at NeoCon this year. In collaboration with MMPI, we are launching the new NeoCon.com, a media-rich Web platform that threads the physical and digital product search and discovery experience of NeoCon® World’s Trade Fair in Chicago.
The new NeoCon.com offers the […]

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Karim Rashid @ My.Suit Madison Avenue Launch Party

“A new year. A new decade.  A new way to buy a suit.” Several members of the Designer Pages team headed to the launch party for My.Suit Madison Avenue through the blustering blizzard that hit Manhattan last night (and still today). It’s the brand-new flagship store for the made-to-measure suit maker - and the Guest […]

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Apartment Therapy Meetup with Amy Helfand

Overcoming the challenge of getting the Designer Pages team out of the office, four of us (including co-founder and CEO Jacob Slevin and myself) headed to the last night’s Apartment Therapy Meetup. Although we were a bit late, we caught the majority of Brooklyn designer Amy Helfand’s discussion with Maxwell (Apartment Therapy).
Known for her brightly […]

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Contract Magazine’s 31st Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast at Cipriani

Braving sharp winds and arctic temperatures on Friday morning at 7:30am, 800-some members of the contract interior design community gathered for Contract Magazine’s 31st annual awards breakfast at Cipriani’s 42nd street outpost in Manhattan. It was Designer Pages’ particular pleasure however, to be seated with our lovely friends at MMPI and our collaborators on […]

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Kicking the New Year off with a BANG! IDNY at Heller, January 14, 2010.

Happy New Year to all! Someone recently asked Designer Pages what our New Year’s resolution is. To which we replied: “To bring our loyal members of IDNY even better speakers and venues in 2010.” This month’s Meetup is definitely going to be one for the history books. We will be hosting this Thursday’s event at […]