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.
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.
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.
During the Making Ideas exhibition this summer, New York designers will participate in GlassLab sessions at The Corning Museum of Glass every Tuesday and Wednesday. Designers include Harry Allen, Stephen Burks, Wendell Castle, Michele Oka Doner, and others.
On weekends from June 30 to July 29, watch GlassLab sessions on New York’s Governors Island featuring designers included in the onsite exhibition, Graphic Design—Now in Production, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Walker Art Center.
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.
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.