Program

Throughout the years, WantedDesign has become more than a tradeshow, but a hub for conversations, a gathering of international actors, and a community: brands, designers, editors, curators, design lovers and schools altogether for a celebration of the design ethos.

Even more, WantedDesign has created innovative tools to facilitate business opportunities, at each level of the design chain. Multiple success stories were born there; underlining that WantedDesign has carved a new type of tradeshow, one that fits hand-in-hand with New York’s creative vibe.

WantedDesign Manhattan opening hours
Saturday May 20 to Monday May 22 from 10am to 7pm
Tuesday May 23 from 10am to 5pm
The opening event will be on Friday May 19, It is an invitation-only event.

Register here to attend WantedDesign Manhattan, May 20-23
at Terminal Stores, 269 11th Avenue, New York

Saturday May 20

10am-11am – Things They Didn’t Tell You in School – Tips & Tricks for Running a Successful Creative Business, sponsored by NKBA
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Join Veronika Miller of Modenus.com for an informative session for students and lifelong learners. This conversation is all about “things they didn’t teach you in school” – from marketing and managing your creative business effectively to selling your ideas to a client without losing sight of creativity OR the bottom line. Moderator, Veronika Miller, Founder and CEO of design directory Modenus and social media platform #designhounds draws from her own background as kitchen & bath designer to lead the conversation with NKBA’s Manager of certification & design Elle H-Millard; Certified Master Builder, TV personality, radio host and author, Karl Champley and award winning interior designer Alberto Villalobos of Villalobos Desio. Be ready to learn valuable tips & tricks on managing your business and promoting yourself and please come armed with questions for this engaging topic. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

11:15am-12:15pm – Global Forestry – A Deeper Look at the Woods We’re Specifying
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
The facts are astounding. One-third of tropical timber traded globally comes from illegal deforestation. We lose 48 football fields of forest every minute to deforestation. Yet architects and designers in the U.S. and around the globe continue to design and build with endangered woods in their projects, often because they don’t even realize it. Design historian and materials specialist, Grace Jeffers, will take you through the current state of endangered woods and forests. She will provide information on endangered woods, tips for how to insure the woods you use are properly sourced, as well as sustainable options for achieving sought after exotic wood looks. You’ll leave understanding the importance of this issue and how the A&D community can help. This presentation is accredited. Earn one (1) continuing education unit by attending this talk. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

12:30-1:30pm – Past + Present = Future: The Synergy Between Vintage and Modern, sponsored by Smeg
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Past + Present = Future. Reinvent the wheel? No. Improve it? Sure. How does the past inform the future and how can we apply and improve upong what art, design & architecture have already discovered over the past 75 years. Please join celebrity designer Mat Sanders of Consort Design; Roll & Hill co-founder Jason Miller and SMEGs director of marketing Christian Boscherini for a lively discussion on how we pull and modernize trends and treasures of the past to create new environments, products and style directions. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

2pm-3pm – “Designing for Movement”
Moderated by Susan S. Szenasy, Publisher/Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
With Randy Fiser, Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Interior Designers, Joseph White, Director of Workplace Strategy, Design, and Management, Herman Miller, Anastasia Su, Co-Founder and Creative Director of 13&9 and Martin Lesjak, Co-Founder and Creative Director of 13&9 and CEO of INNOCAD Architecture.

2pm-3pm – 2017 Color + Design Vision – At Mohawk Gallery
Join Royce Epstein, Director of Design Segment for Mohawk Group, as she presents the 2017 forecast of color and design trends. This inspirational lecture looks at how cultural shifts affect design, and how trends today impact design across multiple disciplines to create a new visual language.

4pm-5pm – Meet the Designers: 13&9 – At Mohawk Gallery
Join Anastasia Su and Martin Lesjak of 13&9 Design, collaborators with Mohawk Group, for a presentation on their design process. The twenty-minute talk will be followed by cocktails and a meet and greet.

3:30pm-4:30pm – Strategy, Materials and Methods for Better Office Design, sponsored by Semihandmade / MORE
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Join Michelle Cleverdon, Workplace Strategist for Capital One for a discussion on office design and strategy—how designers are navigating these unchartered waters through new materials, methods and forms. Panelists include Join designer Chris Adamick, John McDonald of Semihandmade and MORE, David Gallulo of Rapt Studio and Mesve Vardar of Humanscale to learn more about the office of the future. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

Sunday, May 21

11am-12pm – Building Balance: Culture, Context & Inclusion in Design
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
International Women’s Day is a time to reflect and celebrate balance, equality, diversity and opportunity in our lives and our industries. On this day, in 2017, OTHR surveyed the industrial design landscape and noticed that while there is a breadth and diversity of talent, we have a long way to go to build proper balance and representation. This raises the question: how do we, as individuals and as an industry, begin to identify and solve this problem? Join Kate McTigue of OTHR, Jaime Derringer of Design Milk, Patrizia Moroso of Moroso, Jean Lin of Colony, Alyse Archer-Coite of A/D/O and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS for a discussion on the value and need for a more diverse design ecosystem. Professionals and enthusiasts alike will walk away with a deeper understanding of the value of a more diverse industry and actionable tools to do our part in shifting the landscape of design. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

12:30am-1:30pm – Lunch session: Building Your Customers and Clients—The Dos and Don’ts of Social Media Marketing
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Should I join Snapchat? What’s an IG Story? Where should I spend my marketing dollars? Learn from the best: Join Jaime Derringer of Design Milk and Veronika Miller of Modenus.com to talk about best practices, tricks and tips for social media marketing your design business. Great for designers who are just starting out, established designers and brands who are looking to improve their skills or expand their online presence, and anyone else interested in getting involved in online marketing.

2-3pm – How is Tech Changing the Way We Live
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Is tech changing the way we live or is it the other way around? Join Dan DiClerico Multimedia Content Specialist and Spokesperson at HomeAdvisor, Tamica Fields of Sony Life Space UX, Travis McMichael of B&O PLAY, Ryan Herd of One Sound Choice, CEDIA NJ Chapter and Josh Rubin of Cool Hunting to discuss the roll that technology plays in design and in our everyday lives. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

2pm-3pm – 2017 Color + Design Vision – At Mohawk Gallery
Join Royce Epstein, Director of Design Segment for Mohawk Group, as she presents the 2017 forecast of color and design trends. This inspirational lecture looks at how cultural shifts affect design, and how trends today impact design across multiple disciplines to create a new visual language.

3:30-4:30pm – What Do We Mean When We Say American Design
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Designer and Clever podcast host Amy Devers opens up the can of worms we call American Design. Here her talk with Brit Kleinman of AVO, Derek Chen of Council, designer Brad Ascalon and Jackson Schwartz of Hennepin Made for an honest look at how we define ourselves and our design industry. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

4pm-5pm – Meet the Designers: 13&9  – At Mohawk Gallery
Join Anastasia Su and Martin Lesjak of 13&9 Design, collaborators with Mohawk Group, for a presentation on their design process. The twenty-minute talk will be followed by cocktails and a meet and greet.

5pm-6:30pm – PechaKucha-style | Mark your calendar for few not to be missed Design Events around the world
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Remarks by Ed Hogikyan, Senior Vice-President, Marketing, New York City Economic Development Corporation, with Emilio Cabrero, Design Week Mexico Director, Jeremy Vandermeij, Executive Director, and Deborah Wang, Artistic Director, Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Isabel Roig, Director general of Barcelona Design Centre and Barcelona Design Week, Halla Helgadottir, Managing Director, and Sara Jónsdóttir, Festival Manager, Iceland Design Center (Design March). Followed by cocktails with Pro Mexico.

Monday, May 22

10-11 AM – Changing Consumption: Retail in the Digital Age
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Veronika Miller of Modenus.com talks with designer Megan Grehl, Caleb Mulvena of Mapos, Dasha Faires of Canal Street Market, and Bradford Shelhammer of eBay about how the technological revolution changing way we browse for products, and buy the things that surround us. This talk is part of the Design Milk x Modenus Talks series at WantedDesign, presented by Wilsonart.

11am-1pm – Manhattan Neon Workshop at Manhattan Neon, across from WantedDesign restaurant, 2nd floor

12pm-1pm – From Launch Pad to Market: A Discussion with Designer Elish Warlop – At Launch Pad Gallery
Moderated by Jaime Derringer, Founder + Executive Editor of Design Milk.
With Noah Schwarz, Design Within Reach Director of Merchandising and Elish Warlop, Owner of Elish Warlop Design Studio.

2-3pm – The New Brand Museums: How Companies Tell Their Stories
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Join moderator Michael Cannell, author and former editor of The New York Times Home section, as he leads a discussion with three iconic design manufacturers who have created brand museums through the archive collections, iconographic materials and objects, to tell the company’s stories and that of their designers to the modern world.  With Matteo Alessi, Chief Commercial Officer, Alessi; Setefania Ferrari, Assistant Curator, Alessi Museum; Lorenza Luti, Kartell’s Marketing & Retail Director, in charge of the Kartell Museum; and Giulia Molteni, Molteni&CǀDada, Marketing & Communications Director and oversees the Molteni Museum.

2pm-3pm – 2017 Color + Design Vision – Mohawk Gallery
Join Royce Epstein, Director of Design Segment for Mohawk Group, as she presents the 2017 forecast of color and design trends. This inspirational lecture looks at how cultural shifts affect design, and how trends today impact design across multiple disciplines to create a new visual language.

4pm-5pm – Meet the Designers: 13&9 – At Mohawk Gallery
Join Anastasia Su and Martin Lesjak of 13&9 Design, collaborators with Mohawk Group, for a presentation on their design process. The twenty-minute talk will be followed by cocktails and a meet and greet.

Tuesday, May 23

12pm-1pm – “Crafting Technology: Handmade and Machine-made in Design Today”
Conversation Room at Grimshaw
Moderated by Annie Block, Deputy Editor, Interior Design magazine. Including Rosanne Somerson, President, RISD; Gullian Graves, Head of Design & Science, ENSCI Les ateliers; Jessica Banks, CEO and founder of Rock Paper Robot; Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, partner and design director of Situ Studio.

2pm-3:30pm: WantedDesign Design Schools Workshop Review – Conversation Room at Grimshaw
With Jury committee including Allan Chochinov, Chair, SVA|NYC MFA Products of Design; Giulio Cappellini; Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum curator; John Gulliford & Rebecca Caillouet, Senior Associate, SHoP Architects; Lauren Slowik, Shapeways; Chantal Hamaide, Intramuros.

5pm: WantedDesign Manhattan closing