Get ready for B. PHL, a city-wide innovation festival
By Tiffany Mercer-Robbins on Oct 11, 2019
Looking to be inspired by more great arts-focused content this fall? Check out the B. PHL Innovation Festival. B. PHL is a new, city-wide innovation festival designed to build the city’s reputation as the most innovative city on the East Coast. On Oct. 15-17, locations around Philadelphia will host more than 200 interactive workshops, sessions, exhibits, and events highlighting innovation in a range of fields. B. PHL will give attendees face-to-face access to the visionaries shaping the future of Philadelphia over three…Read Full Story
Attendees Focused on Reducing Waste and Innovating Existing On-board Delivery Services to Minimize Amtrak’s Environmental footprint. PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday evening, Amtrak welcomed 20 DesignPhiladelphia industrial and product designers and students onboard trains at William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in an effort to source potential sustainable delivery solutions at its “Food Delivery Design with Amtrak- Get Carried Away” design charrette. DesignPhiladelphia is a 10-day festival produced by the Center for…
Iconic tile provider Nemo Tile + Stone has recently opened up shop in Philadelphia’s Old City District, welcoming architects, interior designers, and design enthusiasts alike to specify the brand’s extensive selection of surfacing materials. We chatted with Nemo Tile + Stone’s Design Director, Katie Michael-Battaglia to learn a bit more about what the brand has geared up for the showroom. What made you select the Old City District location?“The Old City District is being transformed into a design destination, with…
PHILADELPHIA, PA – October 8, 2019. The Center for Emerging Visual Artists celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) this October. We are proud to be a part of a community that has empowered artists through this program for the past two decades and we look forward to many more ahead of us. Fostering meaningful interaction between artists and the public, POST promotes a greater awareness and appreciation for the creative minds that make Philadelphia a vibrant place to live, work, and…
Environmental cataclysms, global warming, depleting natural resources and our dependency on diminishing oil reserves beg for changes in the built environment, an area responsible for a large portion of the problems. Toxic substances are often used in the production of conventional construction materials, and at the end of their life cycle they are dumped into landfills in massive quantities. Our mission is to disrupt this cycle by bringing a product to market that requires no pesticides or herbicides to grow, no harmful…
Penn has taken great strides to enhance its inclusive community, and has promised to strengthen existing diverse and local partnerships while creating new ones. Engaging locally is a fundamental component to President Gutmann's Penn Compact 2020, and one expression of that engagement is Penn's economic inclusion initiatives, which provide opportunities for local individuals and businesses to participate in the economic activity of Philadelphia's largest private employer. For more than two decades, Penn has had a…
Coscia Moos and Keast & Hood have come together outside of the typical project design setting to partner on a maritime themed installation, titled “Expanse”. The partnership originated during the firm’s collaboration on a recent adaptive re-use project in Philadelphia. Partnering on an installation for DesignPhiladelphia gave both firms a chance to grow their relationship beyond traditional project constraints and charette through a totally different design process. As designers, Coscia Moos valued this opportunity to…
Newly developed epicenter of design east of City Hall, East Market, will host the Open House of all Open Houses for all design lovers, during DesignPhiladelphia on Thursday, Oct 10. As one of the most innovative and transformative projects in Center City, East Market is a natural location partner for the festival. Located in the heart of the city, East Market will highlight the impact designers can have on the resurgence of a community and how a space can empower makers, thinkers, doers, and believers to grow and reimagine…
This exhibition brings together some of ongoing design research projects at the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL) at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Each work on display is a unique design response to specific conditions of forces being brought into equilibrium. These examples illustrate an unconventional design method that introduces the inclusion of force equilibrium at the very early stages of design. With this method, a designer can precisely control the geometry of the flow of…
My high school locker room was covered with the same motivational posters that hang in athletic facilities around the world: “Hard work beats talent.” “If you can believe it, you can achieve it.” And the perennial coaching favorite — “There is no ‘I’ in team.” While the intention of that axiom was right, I think the coaches were wrong. Teams are made up of a bunch of “I”s — Individuals with unique personalities, skills and needs. On the field or in the office, a team performs at its best when the…
Curated pieces solve open plan design challengesAmanda Schneider is President of ThinkLab, the research division of Interior Design magazine. ThinkLab combines Interior Design magazine’s incredible reach within the architecture and design community with proven market research techniques to uncover relevant trends and opportunities that connect back to brand and business goals in a thought-provoking, creative, and actionable way.In what has been dubbed “the privacy backlash” many workers are finding themselves less…
Today’s designers collaborate in multidisciplinary teams. With this reality in mind, the University of the Arts School of Design has re-envisioned its curriculum, empowering students to pursue their passions, broaden their design exposure and become the innovative design leaders of the future.Starting with the project theme Design as Play, students from the UArts Graphic Design, Illustration, and Product Design programs joined forces to envision and fabricate the One Design kinetic sculpture for DesignPhiladelphia.…
Felt+Fat’s handmade tableware always seeks to be unique, but consistent. Because of this, it may come as a surprise to some of our customers that we pride ourselves on our experimental spirit behind the scenes. Because of our collaborations with chefs around the world, we are often developing and testing new forms and surfaces in order to provide these chefs and their restaurants’ patrons with an innovative tableware experience that lives up to our standards of quality. Last year we introduced Glaze Lab, a ceramic…
G.T.Design, the innovative Italian manufacturer of contemporary rugs, will showcase “The Gentle Carpet”, an installation of timeless carpet designs, at the DesignPhiladelphia 2019. This celebrated global design festival presents the latest developments - the best and what’s next in the industry. The Gentle Carpet, curated by G.T.Design’s Creative Director and Founder Deanna Comellini, will be center-stage in the inspired setting of LEMA Studio, a new trading partner for G.T.Design in Philadelphia. This esteemed…
Tyler School of Art and Architecture students participating in the Holographic Handcraft Workshop built a sculptural prototype using augmented reality technology supplied by industry partner Fologram In the Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s first-ever Holographic Handcraft Workshop, Tyler School of Art and Architecture students and faculty in five academic programs used augmented reality technology to investigate design solutions for an industry partner Fologram, an Australian software developer. The four-day…
Hello friends and colleagues! Our favorite time of the year is less than a week away – as usual there are a ton of events to choose from. Make sure to review the festival schedule and download the DesignPhilly app to make navigating the festival and building your own itinerary easy. Thank you to all of your designers, sponsors, volunteers, Board Members and Steering Committee members for once again – making this festival come alive and show off how much of a Design City Philadelphia really is. And a special thanks…
New to the DesignPhiladelphia festival, the Dine with Design Dinner Series, brings exclusive curated dining experiences to Philadelphia’s aesthetically pleasing showrooms, creative spaces, and culinary scenes.Suraya – Friday, October 4, 6-8 pmWe are excited to announce our Design Hosts for our Fishtown Dine with Design at one of the hottest restaurants in the city, Suraya. ONLY 2 TICKETS LEFT! Melissa, our guest host, was involved in the digital and brand experience at Suraya. Learn more about Melissa Alam, a digital…
CoLab Philadelphia spreading ‘Joy’ in KensingtonThe premise behind CoLab Philadelphia is to bring health beyond the walls of the hospital and into the communities of Philadelphia that need it most. Through programming and activations centered out of a remodeled 1960’s Airstream trailer, the #CoLabPHL team aims to engage with community members where they live, promoting health and well-being, providing medical screenings, and connecting residents to resources and education. CoLab was born out of a desire to help support…
There have been many technological leaps that have had a tremendous effect on the AEC Industry; Upgrading from a drawing table and parallel edge to drawing in AutoCAD, new computer technology that allows you to move a drawing into 3D with Revit, taking a Revit model and applying textures to get a fully realized rendering. These leaps and bounds are mostly reflected in two areas: One, increasing the speed with which an individual can convey an idea to a client. Two, giving that client a new level of understanding of what…
Newton Brown Urban Design wants to make the world a greener place by integrating and bringing solar to new heights of technological innovation, and delivering all kind of sustainable solutions in Street & Site Furnishings for public spaces while providing elegant options for a better energy and environmental future in Urban Design and City Planning.Local government can lead the way to a sustainable future by setting a highly visible example for renewable energy in their communities. During DesignPhiladelphia 2019 we will…