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Every summer, design geeks and art addicts trek to New York’s Long Island City for the weekly Warm Up music series at MoMA’s PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Cavorting in the former public school's concrete plaza, visitors are shaded from the elements by the winning design of the museum's Young Architects program. For its 10th season, Surface Avant Guardians Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of New Haven-based firm MOS presented Afterparty, a deceptively simple installation that Meredith describes as "having a Snuffleupagus or Chewbacca feel."   MORE >>

Every summer, design geeks and art addicts trek to New York's Long Island City for the weekly Warm Up music series at MoMA's PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Cavorting in the former public school’s concrete plaza, visitors are shaded from the elements by the winning design of the museum's Young Architects program. For its 10th season, Surface Avant Guardians Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of New Haven-based firm MOS presented Afterparty, a deceptively simple installation that Meredith describes as "having a Snuffleupagus or Chewbacca feel."
 
Using aluminum scaffolding pipe, the pair made a series of shelters using parametric modeling (where the same shape is distorted and repeated via computer). Those forms were then draped in an aluminum netting that filters light and heat, which in turn was topped with the fuzzy palm fibers of the Ijuk, a plant used for traditional roofing in Indonesia. This modern-meets-primitive design created a passive cooling effect. Only lightweight, foam benches and the museum's gravel courtyard remained underneath. "It showed a direction for architecture in general," says curator Andres Lepik, "less complicated design methods and more directness." Big Bird would approve, and so do we. ps1.org, mos-office.net   << LESS

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More commonly seen in sturdy envelopes, DuPont’s Tyvek is now finding its way into stylish stuff    MORE >>

Marian Schoettle’s line of self-described “post-industrial folkwear” for MAU acquires new textural characteristics after every wash and wear. According to the designer, the jackets, bags and dresses “eventually become as supple as leather.” conceptualclothing.com



Long known for its innovative use of fabrics, Stone Island bonds Tyvek with nylon mesh in this Space Age windbreaker for added durability. stoneisland.com



Luis Eslava and Diego Ramos wowed audiences at the 2008 Tokyo Design Week with their Tyvek World installation of wrinkled chairs, modular rugs and geodesic vases, all composed of the papery synthetic. luiseslava.com, diegoramos.es 
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