Women in Industrial Design Show 2014

No worries! You can check out the selected designers here: 2014 Selected Designers

Coming up will be some pictures from the show! Look out for posts to come.

Norwegian designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen exhibited her 365 knitting clock at DMY International Design Festival Berlin. The clock includes a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder, and roll of yarn. The design seeks to make time a tangible, physical thing. It moves clockwise and after one year, creates a scarf two meters long. (via designmilk)

Brooklyn-based independent furniture designer Katy Skelton recently launched her eponymous online store, selling American-made designs that are built upon the principle of socially responsible manufacturing practices. Her collection is chock-full of modern yet nostalgic designs for the bedroom, dining and living room, and home office.

Ti Chang is a San Francisco-based industrial designer. After receiving her BS in Industrial Design from Georgia Institute of Technology, she went on to get her MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London. She worked for major consumer brands before she designed her own line of intimate jewelry and accessories (Incoqnito). Crave is her latest venture, in which she is a co-founder and lead of design. She was awarded a GOOD Design Award for her design of the Duet Lux.

Seriously, is there a more fulfilling endeavor than this? To bring pleasure to women is my way of helping to make the world a better place. The way I see it, sexually satisfied women means happier relationships, which means happier couples, marriages, and children, and eventually... peace on earth. And I'm only half joking.

See more of her work here: tc-studio.com

A woman’s touch is no longer a rarity in tech, product and furniture designs. The first IDSA-sponsored Women in Industrial Design Show on June 14 invites you to celebrate the emerging and established women in industrial design from across the USA. Hosted by AstroStudios and Coalesse during San Francisco Design Week, the show will celebrate design talents and diversity of industrial design. Join us for an evening of design elegance and get inspired in the company of leading designers, journalists and other industry specialists.

Tickets for the highly anticipated Women in Industrial Design show are available HERE. 

Early Bird - $10 General Admission (at the door) - $15

Date and Time Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @  6-10pm Panel Discussion @ 7pm-8pm (Panelist TBD)

Location Astro Studios 348 Sixth St., Ground floor San Francisco, CA 94103

The ticket includes admission, hors d'oeuvres and beverage service along with admission to the panel discussion. We are a non-profit. All proceeds will be used to cover the event. 

"There is without doubt institutional prejudice in the furniture industry"

Opinion: there's no excuse for excluding women from the design conversation in Milan, says Kieran Long who offers a ready-made Rolodex for a fairer male/female split.

This column is intended as a service to design, and to address a practical problem that is in acute focus during Milan furniture fair week. The problem is the shocking lack of women designers who are allowed to participate in product and furniture design, either as designers or voices in the discussion about the field.

Kieran Long provides us with a list of established and upcoming female designers while pointing out the gender gap in product design.

Save the Date!

Décolleté, Set of Decanter and Wine Glasses by Yasemin Uyar

Décolleté wine decanter has a wide neck and with a diagonal lip, which makes it easier to clean. The accompanying wine glasses are stem free with a rounded based. The glasses perfectly match the decanter's angled neck.

See more of Décolleté and the process behind its making: here.

Swedish studio front is an all-women design group that produced this collection for Thonet. The 'Coat Rack Bench' uses design elements from iconic Thonet designs to marry the functions of sitting and of the coat rack into one piece. 

(via designboom)