UNESCO may have passed over Brooklyn for its first US Design City, but New York City’s largest borough can’t be entirely neglected. Although high prices are pushing creatives further onto the fringes of the city, or even out of it, they are also resulting in the development of large, interdisciplinary creative work and show spaces that are open to the public, like National Sawdust (fall 2015) and A/D/O in Greenpoint (summer 2016). Most of all, however, they are making designers get creative about how they make ends meet. From Todd St. James in Gowanus to Fort Makers around the Navy Yard and Snarkitecture in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is still where some of the most interesting disciplinary boundary-hopping and anti-specialisation happens, in the windsock of American design. Six new Architonic members from Brooklyn... <b>Todd St John</b> is a graphic designer and animator who has been doing product, furniture and “experiments” from a Gowanus Studio. St. John thinks that the several media in w
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