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The Vera Wang on Weddings App

February 15, 2012

The app you’ve been waiting for is finally here!

Vera Wang on Weddings is now available in the App Store for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Groundbreaking in its design and content, the app leads brides through the wedding design process, taking the bride through the full creative process of organizing a wedding—from inspiration to research to planning—and provides solutions for all the challenges of executing the big event.

This was an ideal project for us, given our roots in fashion and lifestyle publishing, and in collaboration with a creative, adventurous client who was also fun to work with. We started our journey together with a discovery process that included extensive user and competitive research, then moved into the design and build phases including IA, product design, UX, and app development for both the iPad and the iPhone. As part of the project, we built some cool functionality, including inspiration boards, a customized calendar to-do list, and robust tools to track and store guest, vendor, and bridal party info and share inspiration and decision-making with groups throughout the planning cycle. These tools work seamlessly with the native iOS and iCal functionality.

Check out the app soon—it’s free for a few weeks, but soon will cost $9.99 (and worth every penny if we do say so ourselves). If you do use the app please do let us know what you think.

For more on our engagement with Vera Wang and the creation process, see our Case Study.
For more on Vera Wang and to get a feel for the app (if you’re not yet tethered to an iPad or iPhone), visit the information pages on her site.

“I would like a bride to take this app as a suggestion, as encouragement to find out who she really wants to be and how she wants to get married. And I hope that what I do, with everything I create, makes that job just a little more pleasurable and a little bit easier for the bride.” —Vera Wang

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Eva Zeisel, Master of Modern Design, 1906-2011

January 4, 2012

Eva Zeisel was a Hungarian-born master of industrial design known for her work with ceramics. Her often curvilinear forms evoke a natural pleasure and sense of purity. Zeisel was of great influence in the design world. She created the department of ceramic arts industrial design at Pratt in 1939 and taught there until 1952. In 1947 Zeisl’s china was presented in a one-woman show at MOMA. Work from throughout her career is can be seen in museum collections around the world.

From Emily Langer’s piece in The New York Times:

Eva Zeisel, who designed and produced stylish but simple lines of tableware that were credited with bringing a sense of serenity to American dinnertime, died Dec. 30 at her home in New City, N.Y.

“I search for beauty,” Mrs. Zeisel told The Washington Post in 2003. “I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.”

Our friends at KleinReid offer several of Zeisel’s designs. Visit their online store.

posted in Design, Etc.

MAPP International

November 10, 2011

We very recently completed a two-part collaboration with MAPP International to illustrate the work and findings of one of their initiatives, The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium (TACAC). The Consortium serves to build enduing partnerships between African Choreographers and producers in the United States.

The first project was to design a forty page report on TACAC into a beautiful brochure, illustrative of the work of the artists, the depth of the relationships built, and scope of the Consortium’s work as a whole. The result was an image-rich, modern piece that really brought the report to life.

Half way through brochure design, MAPP came back to us to request a video piece that would similarly vivify their work. The result was a beautiful and moving collage of performance footage, photos, and text.

MAPP were wonderfully invested clients and thrilled with both outcomes. For more information on the important work they do, visit www.mappinternational.org.

posted in Art, Design, Etc., News

Matt Gagnon this month in Dwell

September 19, 2011

Friend of FOUR32C, architect, designer Matt Gagnon‘s Prototype Lamp is featured in October’s Dwell magazine. His new product (slash performance) was featured as one of the highlights of New York Design Week. For 5 days in May Matt, and his super cool wife Katrina (hey), were perched in Future Perfect’s windows in Noho constructing custom chandeliers based on the design system he created. We were lucky enough to attend the event and are not so secretly coveting his new creations.

You can see more of his Prototype Lamps at this website.

Congrats Matt!

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A new addition to Studio 6G…

August 3, 2011

Matt Gagnon – product designer, architect, educator, craftsman – designs tactile, organic, interactive objects and spaces that feel instantly relatable and inspire contemplation.

One of Gagnon’s convertible, ceramic chandeliers now graces FOUR32C’s conference room. We think its articulated array of smooth, subtly variant bone-colored nodes recall exposed vertebrae, with electrical conduits and bulbs completing a neural network. Unlike our human spines, however, no spongy discs cushion the structures as they rest against each other creating an unsettling visceral reaction for our kinetically attuned team. Still, realists that we are, the tension between the uncomfortable bodily sensations and the object’s visual and utilitarian beauty give us lots to think about (and sense) between meetings.

Thanks Matt!

posted in Design, Leisure

McQueen Show Extended to Midnight Aug 7

August 2, 2011

The Metropolitan Museum is giving the world (and some straggling FOUR32C-ers) a final chance to catch the record-breaking Alexander McQueen exhibit.

For the first time, The Met will remain open to visitors until Midnight on Sunday, August 7th. If you have not gone, GO.

We just received the 240-pg. hardcover book from the exhibit, complete with cover hologram. Beautiful– but no substitute for the real thing.

See you there?

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Brand New FOUR32C.com

March 24, 2011

Some might call it a redesign, but we are getting out the plastic flags on a string and breaking out the marching band for this one. Ok, maybe not, but we are very happy. Our new website is up and running! Thanks to everybody (Jamie, Lia, and Eric) for doing a great job. We think it’s a big improvement from the last site. Hope you enjoy it as well!

Remember: four32c.com, baby!

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New FOUR32C Site Launched!

January 15, 2010

The new FOUR32C site is up and running! Take a look around. We’d love to hear your comments!

posted in Design