Model Citizens seeks to promote a sustained model of productivity within the design industries, representing independent designers and their business partners and taking a community-based approach to creating opportunities for them. This show focuses on work that operates within this model and intends to highlight all participants involved in the design process, from the designers themselves to the skilled individuals involved in all aspects production.

Participants Include: Tiffany Burnette, Martin Konrad Gloeckle, Stanley Ruiz, Grace Souky, Zena Verda Pesta, Iacoli & Mcallister, Grain, AND (Audra Wolowiec + Niels Cosman), Kandice Levero, Ben Blanc, Piey (Paulina Gonzales-Ortega, Andres Ocejo), Nathan Thomas Studios, Grace E. Chen, Omid Sadri, Carolina Kim, Jason Neufeld, Hye Jung Park, Mariel Taveras, Leo Tecosky, Takuma Kakehi, E. Carmichael, Charles Constantine, J. Green Design, Lara Knutson, Jed Crystal, Keen Gat

Pictured above are Stanley Ruiz's New Organic Bowl and Grace Chen's Egg Bench. More after the jump.

Model Citizens NYC 2009 May 16-18. 11am-6pm Exit Underground: 475 10th Ave. Opening reception: May 16, 5-7pm

Wrapped, Martin Konrad Gloeckle

Cafe America, Grain

Pirueta, Piey

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