GlassLab Design Program
GlassLab offers designers unprecedented access to molten glass. In public design performances or private sessions, designers and glassmakers collaborate, rapidly prototyping concepts and using the immediacy of hot glass as a catalyst for innovation.
See the Exhibition
Making Ideas presents over 150 prototypes by nearly 50 international designers who have worked with GlassLab. The exhibition immerses visitors in the creative process of designers who use glass as a design material, through videos and objects.
Meet the Designers
GlassLab designers come from various disciplines, such as product, graphic, and fashion design. Designers invited to work on GlassLab include Yves Béhar, the Campana Brothers, Nacho Carbonell, Matali Crasset, Sigga Heimis, Max Lamb, and Massimo Vignelli.
GlassLab at Boisbuchet
Partnering with professional designers, the Corning Museum presents glass workshops at the Domaine de Boisbuchet design retreat in southwest France, in which designers are encouraged to explore the properties of glass and the techniques of glassmaking.
Participate in GlassLab
Designers bring their sketchbooks, and we bring the glass. Opportunities to participate in public design sessions are by invitation only, but GlassLab is available to work with designers or design groups in private workshops, in Corning or elsewhere.