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Inside Discover Design: Jasper + Black

By Marie Kulik, Manager of Exhibitor Business Development This week Marie caught up with first time exhibitor Jeremy Black of Jasper+Black from 2011's Discover Design. Black discussed non-magnetic "magnets", moms as inspiration and how design can take hold of big business over the next ten years. Marie: What is the inspiration behind the design and functionality of your…

Inside Discover Design: Kahla/Barbara Schmidt

By Marie Kulik, Manager of Exhibitor Business Development This week Marie caught up with Barbara Schmidt, designer for the KAHLA line of porcelain dinnerware. Marie: What is the inspiration behind the design and functionality of your products? BS: I want to translate the material porcelain with its long history of use and design into the present. Human habits are as…

Inside Discover Design: ALEX Bottles

By Marie Kulik, Manager of Exhibitor Business Development This week Marie caught up with Chris Hotell of ALEX Bottles to discuss sustainability and how it works in the world of housewares and high design. Marie: What is the inspiration behind the design and functionality of your products? CH: Reusable water bottles are an amazing and necessary alternative to the toxic single…

Inside Discover Design: urban butik

By Marie Kulik, Manager of Exhibitor Business Development This week we talked to Jean-Luc Bouchard of urbak butik. He has an interesting perspective as an exhibitor who has participated in a few of our Shows and excplains just how much of an impact Discover Design had for design-focused products compared to years past. Marie: What is the inspiration behind the design…

Inside Discover Design: finum

By Marie Kulik, Manager of Exhibitor Business Development This week's Inside Discover Design interview is with Cristian Justus of finum: Marie: What is the inspiration behind the design and functionality of your tea and coffee products? CJ: As an enthusiastic consumer of full-leaf teas I like to blend them myself. And I want to prepare my teas in the urban setting of my…

Inside Discover Design

By Marie Kulik, Manager of Exhibitor Business Development Discover Design is the newest addition to the International Home + Housewares Show, one of the largest and most successful trade shows North America has to offer. Debuting at the 2011 International Home + Housewares Show, this category showcased the elegant, unique world of homegoods products that bring together design…

Discover Design at the 2011 International Home + Housewares Show

Introducing… Discover Design! Composition, formation, inspiration, pattern, perspective, style. Design professionals shape consumer lifestyle and product trends through their creativity and ingenuity. Designers have the ability to forecast and perceive our wants and needs. They take visions and concepts then turn them into hot sellers and customer favorites. The…