UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS
ICFF Offsite Show 2010
803 Washington St.
New York, NY
http://www.uncomfortabledesign.com/
Sponsored by: Subports, NY Designs, Effen Vodka, Pomp & Clout, Publicide, and Co Design
Designers Included: Ana Linares, Andrew Haarsager, Chrissy Conant, Craighton Berman, Demian Repucci, Design Glut, Dominic Wilcox, Karl Zahn, Materious, Matthew Waldman of Nooka, MSLK, NYDesigns and Design Glut, Paul Loebach, Sruli Recht, Vincent Lai of Skinny Vinny, Will Robison of Subports
We believe it’s the role of creatives to start the uncomfortable conversations that cause people to grow.
“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.” – Timothy Ferriss
Inspired by the quote above, we challenged a group of designers to create something which provokes an uncomfortable yet important conversation. Participating designers were given complete freedom with the type of object they created, the materials they used, and the topic of the conversation they set out to provoke.
As a result, the work was wonderfully broad – housewares and furniture, jewelry and fashion, graphics and video. A collection of objects with the desire to make you uncomfortable.
In Case by Materious
“We are living in an era where public trust in corporations is extremely low; the pillars of capitalism stand on questionable ground. We are hardly surprised at revelations of corruption, fraud, and exorbitant greed perpetrated by the companies that have become so crucial to our health and well-being. How does a society that is founded upon, and so reliant upon, the corporation reconcile these lapses of morality?
From the outside, In Case seems like a fairly typical hard-shell brief case. When opened, however, an integrated, hand-powered paper shredder is revealed, which provides the iniquitious business professional the ability to destroy stealthily any incriminating documents at a moment’s notice.”