Blu Dot was born in 1997. Their goal is to bring good design to as many people as possible. Which means creating products that are useful, affordable, and desirable. To make that happen, their design process is founded on collaboration. Not just among ourselves as we play show-and-tell with concepts, but a total collaboration between pencil and paper, materials and machines, even packaging and assembly. We like to think that the form is almost inevitable, a by-product of the process.
When they opened their SoHo store in 2008 they were introduced to the resourceful culture of “curb-mining”: the act of finding furniture and art on the street. Now that a year has passed, they decided to conduct a curb-mining experiment of their own.
On November 4-5, 25 Real Good Chairs were dropped around NYC, free for the take. Many were GPS-enabled. Watch the film to see what happened.
