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Our Favorite Student Work from NYCxDesign

By Core Jr - May 31, 2017

Core77 University of Cincinnati's section 001 at ICFF University of Cincinnati took a holistic approach to their booth, showing metal and wood furniture that could be seen in a dorm, classroom or home environment. For many undergraduate students involved, this was their first time making furniture. We were impressed with the sophisticated lines we saw, especially with the bench and garment rack.
Core77 University of Cincinnati's section 001 at ICFF University of Cincinnati took a holistic approach to their booth, showing metal and wood furniture that could be seen in a dorm, classroom or home environment. For many undergraduate students involved, this was their first time making furniture. We were impressed with the sophisticated lines we saw, especially with the bench and garment rack.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF A playful band-aid detail on Carl Durkow's table at Drexel Product Design's ICFF booth.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF Laeticia Mabilais Estevez's Fig Chairs explore evolving relationships between any two people sitting in the chairs. The cord connecting the chairs isn't rigid, so the two chairs can be moved closer together or apart based on the two subjects' relationship at any given moment.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF The chairs are made from cotton clothesline, jute cord and wool felt.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF Matthew Dessner'smultidimensional chair.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF Each wooden spoke was cut and applied by hand... needless to say, it took awhile to assemble.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF Ignacio de Socarraz-Novoa'sstrikingILAAM Shelf held its own at Drexel Product Design's ICFF booth.
Core77 Drexel Product Design at ICFF Silicon and felt merge to create this otherworldly chair by Helen Burgess. Before you touch it, you're not sure what to expect, but when you finally do, it's hard to keep your hands off of it!
Core77 San Diego State University x Wilsonart Laminates at ICFF For their annual sponsored chair competition that invites students to create furniture using their companies laminate, Wilsonart invited students from San Diego State University to create charis for ICFF under the theme, "Borders, boundaries and mashups" as a celebration of San Diego's diverse multicultural environment.
Core77 San Diego State University x Wilsonart Laminates at ICFF The winner of this year's chair competitions went to designer Matthew John Bacher, whose chair means to serve as a commentary on cultural appropriation: "Inspired by The Tlaltecuhtli Monolith... Bacher created a literally incomplete picture that mirrors the lack of accurate representation by appropriators [in material and message]", wrote Wilsonart.
Core77 San Diego State University x Wilsonart Laminates at ICFF This chair by student Chuck Thompson was titled "Home Less Home", and the chair body's mix of luxurious and shabby laminate facades operates as a commentary on the challenges related to homeless and, as Thompson puts it, "represents the hardships everyone faces and how close any individual is to losing their home and becoming homeless."
Core77 University of Illinois at Chicago at ICFF At the University of Illinois at Chicago Booth in ICFF, students clearly had a good time experimenting with materials to make some final products—this lamp piece by Dane Gillen seems to be made out an insulation foam.
Core77 University of Illinois at Chicago at ICFF A complex 3d printed skeleton for this lamp made by student Marcin Wieczorek also makes for an equally interesting light show.
Core77 University of Illinois at Chicago at ICFF A surreal material experiment in the form of a light.
Core77 University of Illinois at Chicago at ICFF These pieces by Samuel Bechar demonstrate how everyday objects like packing peanuts and yarn fossilized with resin can transform into fascinating furniture.
Core77 RISD "Patterns of Making" at ICFF Always an impressive ICFF booth, RISD this year features a new series of works from their "Patterns of Making" class, a course where students from Furniture Design and Textiles partner up for a new take on traditional furniture.
Core77 RISD "Patterns of Making" at ICFF Designers Walker Nosworthy and Siena Smith fashioned this chair frame from bent acrylic sheet, which is cushioned by a woven fabric made out of nylon, monofilament and lanyard.
Core77 RISD "Patterns of Making" at ICFF This lounge by Elizabeth Dimitroff and Ayushi Gupta made of inflated PVC balls, red nylon mesh and a solid nickel-plated steel frame is undoubtedly an eye catching piece.
Core77 RISD "Patterns of Making" at ICFF Combining structure with comfort, this bumpy original piece by Edward Meade and Molly Rubidge consists of a steel frame, polyurethane foam and industrial nylon knit.
Core77 RISD "Patterns of Making" at ICFF Although not a part of the "Patterns of Making" class, this inflatable chair concept by Joyce Lin is still worth noting.
Core77 Savannah College of Art & Design at ICFF Interesting furniture forms from the SCAD booth.
Core77 Savannah College of Art & Design at ICFF Interesting furniture forms from the SCAD booth.
Robert Dunay Virginia Tech's Center for Design Research Program at ICFF The Center for Design Research booth demonstrated the merger of Technology and Tradition with work from the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design
Core77 Virginia Tech's Center for Design Research Program at ICFF A Ceramic coffee maker designed by Jason Cusack, a Virginia Tech graduate student in Industrial Design, utilizes digitally fabricated aluminum patterns to produce traditional slip cast mold.
Core77 Virginia Tech's Center for Design Research Program at ICFF A suite of school furniture designed by Virginia Tech Industrial Design senior Sarah Ahart for use in schools in Rwanda. The system adjusts to meet the needs of students ages 5-14 and is designed to be manufactured using local materials and processes.
Core77 Virginia Tech's Center for Design Research Program at ICFF The KGL- 816 Chair is part of the Lo Fab Office Suite developed by Virginia Tech staff, Faculty, and Students in collaboration with MASS Design Group for use in African Design Center in Kigali Rwanda. The piece is designed based on local craft and materials by Jonathan Rugh, Mark Leach, and Michael Folta.
Core77 Virginia Tech's Center for Design Research Program at ICFF A robotically fabricated tower constructed of entirely bespoke parts by Virginia Tech Architecture + Design students Martin Angst, Edward Coe, and Michael Folta as part of an ongoing industry collaboration surrounding the development of complex wooden structures.
Core77 University of Oregon at ICFF At ICFF, the University of Oregon presented their recent joint venture project with Oregon Correction Enterprise, a part of Oregon's prison work system that produce furniture for the university, to outfit one of their dorm halls with updated furniture designs.
Core77 University of Oregon at ICFF Scale models of furniture made during the course of the furniture design class.
Core77 University of Oregon at ICFF Scale models of furniture made during the course of the furniture design class.
Core77 University of Oregon at ICFF The final pieces chosen for reproduction were on display in the University's booth, which included a bed, shelving, as well as a desk and chair.
Core77 University of Oregon at ICFF The final pieces chosen for reproduction were on display in the University's booth, which included a bed, shelving, as well as a desk and chair.
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF In collaboration with the Cooper Hewitt Museum and CaringKind, students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn designed furniture and products to better the lives of people afflicted with Alzheimer's diseases and well as their loved ones and trusted medical practitioners.
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF This piece created by Kate Cutlip allows Alzheimer's patients to "extend their ability to work with soil and foliage" by attaching the garden to their walker.
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF These cubbies designed by Aaron Ethan Green are meant to serve as a visual reminder for those with Alzheimer's to change their clothes on a daily basis through color and open-access organization.
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF The closet organization system designed by Green also features a pillbox whose color coordinates with the day-of-the-week closet system.
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF Many concepts within the Pratt booth emphasized the element of performance required when it comes to caring for someone with Alzheimer's. This piece designed by Xiaoyong Wong allows loved ones to help patients remember how to do daily tasks like eating a brushing teeth by framing the caregiver as though they were the patient's reflection, which allows the patient to copy the caregiver.
Core77 Pratt "Design for the Mind: Products and Furniture for People Living with Alzheimer's" at ICFF An ingenious magnetic tray designed by Evan Huggins that helps prevent spills and a wooden kitchen insert by Caitlin McIver that is meant to conceal shelves containing sharp objects so Alzheimer's patients will not access them.
Core77 Michael Graves College of Architecture + Design at Kean University for ICFF As sustainability becomes an increasingly hot issue in the design realm, questions of materials and how exactly we build design objects are evolving. In this spirit, the Michael Graves College booth displayed projects where rather than build an object, students decided to grow them. Working with biomaterials company Ecovative, the students created jewelry, furniture, and even a bike helmet with moldable, biodegradable mycelium material.
Core77 Michael Graves College of Architecture + Design at Kean University for ICFF As sustainability becomes an increasingly hot issue in the design realm, questions of materials and how exactly we build design objects are evolving. In this spirit, the Michael Graves College booth displayed projects where rather than build an object, students decided to grow them. Working with biomaterials company Ecovative, the students created jewelry, furniture, and even a bike helmet with moldable, biodegradable mycelium material.
Core77 Michael Graves College of Architecture + Design at Kean University for ICFF Sketches for different potential projects made from Ecovative's mushroom-based material.
Core77 The University of Oregon Sports Product Design Program at WantedDesign Brooklyn After wrapping up its very first year since initiating the program, the University of Oregon's Sports Product Design graduate program debuts some of their end of year projects. The UO Sports Program Design program is the only one of its kind in the United States to date.
Core77 The University of Oregon Sports Product Design Program at WantedDesign Brooklyn One project on display was the Endurovest, an accessory meant to help athletes in wheelchairs maintain physical endurance when they're in the game.
Core77 The University of Oregon Sports Product Design Program at WantedDesign Brooklyn The Shelterwood Jacket is a design meant to better the mobility of the traditional workwear jacket through the incorporation of ergonomic factors and innovative athletic stretch materials.
Core77 SVA Products of Design MFA Program "Coincident Times" Exhibit at WantedDesign Brooklyn In response to the dire political, ecological and humanitarian issues of our time, SVA's MFA in Products of Design organized "Coincident Times", featuring a number of artifacts that postulate on potentials of the human condition in the future.
Core77 SVA Products of Design MFA Program "Coincident Times" Exhibit at WantedDesign Brooklyn A conceptual commentary on climate change, Karen Vellensky's "Carbon Letter" necklace, as she writes it, "exists in an imagined future in which the President, having been convinced by his daughter that climate change is real, mandates that all citizens wear the jewelry piece (sold under her jewelry line) as a symbol of their personal contribution to climate change."
Core77 SVA Products of Design MFA Program "Coincident Times" Exhibit at WantedDesign Brooklyn "Parse", a project by Oscar Pipson, questions the commodification and appropriation of black culture in the United States. The designer created a shoe with an inner and outer visual identity. "The outer identity embodies a sense of calm resistance. It's not until the wearer puts on, or takes off, the shoe that the inner identity—the color, the texture, and the pattern—is revealed."
Core77 SVA Products of Design MFA Program "Coincident Times" Exhibit at WantedDesign Brooklyn Michael Lee Kenney's piece called "The Gate' is a futuristic update on the arcade game that intuitively encourages users to challenge the couch-potato culture of videogames by engaging in a physical activity while playing.
Core77 SVA Products of Design MFA Program "Coincident Times" Exhibit at WantedDesign Brooklyn The "Huggie Dougie" by Doug Fertig is a certifiably comforting experience—built to help children with mental challenges like autism, this chair's inflatable cushion system helps alleviate stress by simulating the experience of getting a hug.
SVA SVA Products of Design's TRIAGE at WantedDesign Manhattan TRIAGE was an interactive exhibit put together by SVA Products of Design that "reframes contemporary urgencies through the lens of design." Pictured is the Interrogation room, where participants were encouraged to role-play the American immigration experience.
SVA SVA Products of Design's TRIAGE at WantedDesign Manhattan TRIAGE was an interactive exhibit put together by SVA Products of Design that "reframes contemporary urgencies through the lens of design." Pictured is the Interrogation room, where participants were encouraged to role-play the American immigration experience.

NY Design Week officially came to a close last week, but that doesn't mean we're done marveling over our favorite student work seen at NYCxDesign. Throughout the month of May, we spotted some of the best student work at ICFF and WantedDesign Manhattan and Brooklyn. Experimenting with materials and technology and tackling real-world scenarios like designing for people with Alzheimer's, students didn't hold back their creativity in the least this year.

Each show brought with it very different types of student work. Without surprise, ICFF focused on furniture design, where we saw everything from silicone dipped felt chairs to reimagined prison furniture. The WantedDesign shows brought more experimental projects to the table, including a hugging chair designed to comfort children with mental challenges like autism. No matter what their medium, material or end goal was, all of these projects here represent the best of the best in up-and-coming design.

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