2024-04-05 19:51
Taking a zoomed in look at the 2024 New York Auto Show reveals digitally inspired patterns are still the go to surface accent for exterior and interior details. There weren’t many exam… Read More
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2024-04-02 19:15
Manufacturer brands not opting to participate in auto shows have left organizers with empty floorspace to fill. The past few editions of the New York Auto Show have done a decent job at pres… Read More
2024-03-31 01:00
Over the past several years, New York’s auto show has managed to remain relevant due to the city’s generous stock of media outlets and consumer population. 2024 felt as though th… Read More
2024-03-18 13:35
It’s hard not to be impressed by the sheer scale of the sculptures Frank Stella is showing in NYC for the first time at Jeffrey Deitch’s Wooster street gallery. The massive swirl… Read More
2024-02-09 13:27
CarPark and Classic Car Club Manhattan teamed up for the fourth edition of Attack of the Racks, a meetup dedicated to all things automotive storage accessories. In typical Racks fashion, Car… Read More
2023-12-28 13:05
The end of 2023 and time to take an audit of what’s been published on Seen.Today over the past twelve months. So here’s the numbers. A grand total of 2,540 photos were posted spr… Read More
2023-12-18 15:51
We live in a time where traditional bicycles have essentially reached the zenith of design development. You might assume that with more than a century of progressive iterations, we’ve… Read More
2023-12-08 19:00
Continuing our tour from Part 1 of Design Miami/ 2023, we’ll have a look at 21 more galleries, curios and partner installations. This side of the tent seemed to have a greater concentr… Read More
2023-12-07 17:00
Returning to the tents for preview day of Design Miami/ 2023 felt like another chunk of post-pandemic normalcy falling into place. I last attended the fair in 2019 and over the years it has… Read More
2023-12-04 19:00
While in South Florida to cover Design Miami/, I had some time to check in on the local car scene. Cars and Coffee West Palm Beach is one of the largest monthly meetups with categories spann… Read More
2023-11-22 19:00
Classic Car Club Manhattan hosted a Lamborghini focused late fall edition of Gears on the Pier for one last supercar outing before winter weather sets in. Beyond the parade of wedges that ro… Read More
2023-11-10 21:50
If you’ve ever seen the film Akira, one of the more memorable scenes is near the end when Tetsuo starts absorbing Tokyo and grows into a giant disfigured collage. There’s a simil… Read More
2023-11-07 19:25
Going to a Manhattan hotel to see the private unveiling of a pair of secret motorcycles is a not so unusual thing to do in New York City as I found out. Zero Motorcycles, a pioneer in the el… Read More
2023-10-31 18:11
Pratt Institute’s Adaptation(s) brought together four exhibitions to highlight ideas around the intersection of architecture and climate at the Pratt house on Governors Island in New Y… Read More
2023-10-20 14:43
Caroline Monnet‘s solo show at Arsenal Gallery was coincidentally timed with NYC’s month long focus on architecture, Archtober. Worksite is the title of the Montreal based artist… Read More
2023-10-13 20:49
Design Pavilion was an annual staple of the May NYCxDesign festival. Debuting in Astor Place and then finding a home in Times Square, the always ambitions event staged large outdoor installa… Read More
2023-08-29 15:04
CarPark‘s annual events in NYC have always happened on good weather days, except somehow when Porsche is the focus. The late August Porschella event at Brooklyn’s Industry City s… Read More
2023-07-31 18:36
Friedman Benda’s summer exhibition, Heat Wave is correct context for the many 90+ degree days NYC now gets mid year. This group show brings together a familiar roster of FB designers… Read More
2023-07-12 20:08
Beginning in late spring, the gallery space of Morton Street Partners has been operating as a direction lab for a 1987 Porsche 911. Art is the Process is the exhibition/demonstration of Quee… Read More
2023-06-30 20:46
My roster of favorite artists includes Sarah Sze somewhere near the top. The first piece of hers I remember seeing was Strange Attractor installed for the 2000 Whitney Biennial in a window o… Read More
2023-06-22 12:30
The annual Greenwich Concours in Connecticut typically spans two weekend days in early June. Sunday is the main concours event with Saturday being more of a mishmash of programming including… Read More
2023-06-05 13:53
The annual headline event of NYCxDesign is the combined International Contemporary Furniture Fair(ICFF) and WantedDesign Manhattan. Both shows are still in recovery and rebuilding mode follo… Read More
2023-06-04 15:43
Satellite shows and exhibitions overall were smaller for NYCxDesign 2023. Speaking with some independent show organizers, their responses echoed a similar issue. Just finding a space in NYC… Read More
2023-05-29 14:49
The annual end of the year student show at Cooper Union filled the foundation building adjacent to NYC’s Astor Place. Filling the ground floor gallery was the work from the architectur… Read More
2023-05-24 13:48
Furnishing Utopia returned to NYCxDesign for a fifth edition. The global creative collective has previously focused their attention on the home, but with Public Access the focus is on better… Read More
2023-05-22 10:58
Pratt Shows is the annual end of the year student exhibition that includes both fine art and design. I headed back to the ARC Building located in the main Brooklyn campus to survey the 2023… Read More
2023-05-19 23:28
Radiator, one of NYCxDesign’s strongest independent design shows staged a third edition inside Manhattan’s Refinery Hotel. Producers/curators Andrew Algier and Sara Schoenberger… Read More
2023-05-19 15:07
Seoul’s range of architecture is diverse. There’s a wide variety of styles and scales of buildings spread across distinct neighborhoods. Adjacent to the Gyeongbokgung Palace are… Read More
2023-05-16 11:27
Back some years ago, I was a contributor for a NYC-based site called Man on the Move. The site featured unique vehicles captured on the streets. It was a good exercise in being aware every t… Read More
2023-05-15 10:00
There are a few places I’ve been able to experience that were so visually distinctive and dense that there’s no way they could be ‘designed’. The old Inner Tsukiji Fi… Read More
2023-05-10 23:51
This is the first of a four post series about South Korea. To start, I’m sharing an architecture photo tour of the city of Incheon. Visitors to South Korea likely arrive and pass throu… Read More
2023-04-28 12:27
The twelfth edition of Classic Car Club Manhattan‘s Gears on the Pier series focused on BMW’s M Power performance cars. ‘M’ was once known as BMW Motorsport, a subsid… Read More
2023-04-17 14:35
NYC is filled with some amazing spaces most locals and visitors don’t know exist. Design industry friends will be familiar with the showrooms located discretely in the upper floors of… Read More
2023-04-11 13:50
The trend of increased form and surface complexity has had a hold on automotive design for a while now. It used to be a space owned by Lexus but the layering of shapes and textures is broadl… Read More
2023-04-07 17:31
The 2023 New York International Auto Show made the best of a smaller roster of manufacturers. While electrification increased in emphasis across the show floors, the expanded mobility catego… Read More
2023-03-13 14:39
The topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is hard to ignore in 2023. There seems to be new tools and applications introduced almost daily using text generators like ChatGPT or image creators… Read More
2023-02-08 13:25
Classic Car Club Manhattan and CarPark teamed up for the first edition of the Gears on the Pier series for 2023. This time was a return to utility-focused vehicles with Attack of the Racks I… Read More
2023-02-01 12:42
The ninth annual guest-curated exhibition at Friedman Benda surveys contemporary design from Mexico. Everything Here Is Volcanic, the first exhibition at the gallery for 2023 was overseen by… Read More
2023-01-25 14:53
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Steelcase have partnered to reimagine and reintroduce work by America’s most well known architect. The debut is the Racine Collection, a series of… Read More
2023-01-05 15:06
Winters are tough in New York City, the short daylight, cold temps and inevitable grey icy slush that typically coats the streets make it particularly sad times. However, Morton St. Partners… Read More
2022-12-30 13:08
As 2022 comes to a close, it’s once again time for that annual blogosphere tradition, the yearly recap post. So like last year, here’s a selection of some of the favorite photos… Read More
2022-12-15 21:46
Of all the many categories and formulas of racing, rally consistently seems to remain in the background compared to circuit-based series. However, the sport is arguably one of the most inte… Read More
2022-12-07 13:08
Tom Sachs is an artist with great crossover appeal to the design world, specifically industrial design. It’s his interest in commercial man-made objects and his recreations of them usi… Read More
2022-12-01 17:02
During NYC’s annual Archtober celebration of all things architecture related, The Cooper Union staged a special exhibition focusing on the behavioral impact contemporary models have on… Read More
2022-10-26 12:42
Gears on the Pier series at Classic Car Club Manhattan has been featuring single manufacturers and vehicle types for a few years now. On a mid-fall Saturday morning, the main garage space wa… Read More
2022-10-21 14:30
A sunny fall Saturday morning in lower Manhattan saw the return on CarPark to the elevated Fosun Plaza. Around 70 vehicles made it up the ramp and were on display. The plaza was divided up i… Read More
2022-10-17 13:05
Toronto-based Studio Paolo Ferrari debuted Editions 4 at Colony in NYC. It’s the first solo exhibition of Ferrari’s furniture design work in the US. The collection includes seati… Read More
2022-09-30 14:42
For the first all-automotive exhibition at Morton Street Partners, four vehicles from NY collector Jim Taylor were on view prior to heading to auction. Conservation of Speed is a fitting tit… Read More
2022-09-26 11:00
Now that the Detroit Auto Show occupies a September date from 2022 onward, it coincides with the annual Detroit Month of Design celebration. The festival features exhibitions, studio tours… Read More
2022-09-21 12:39
Attending media day at the 2022 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) spanned a range of emotions. I’ve been making the typically mid-winter trek to Detroit for the better par… Read More
2022-08-29 19:23
CarPark made a late August return to the cobbled canyons of Industry City in Brooklyn for a cars and coffee meetup. The event spanned two blocks with Porsche occupying 35th St. and all other… Read More
2022-08-19 17:51
Flash Set is an exhibition by Toronto-based Jamie Wolfond Studio of work created from an experimental process. The resulting series of colorful vessels and wall panels fill the interior gall… Read More
2022-07-29 15:02
Brooklyn’s Cooler Gallery wasn’t the frigid interior space I needed for respite from the upper 90s heat on my mid-July visit. Following a brief chat with curator Michael Yar… Read More
2022-07-08 13:38
The protagonist of Morton St, Partners exhibition, Manhattan Stop by Christian Chironi is a harlequin hued FIAT 127 Special. A seemingly indistinct choice for an art car if you’re goin… Read More
2022-06-29 14:01
Style Without Substance, American designer Misha Kahn’s forth exhibition at Friedman Benda in NYC could be interpreted as a critique of the melted aesthetic popular in design these day… Read More
2022-06-14 12:26
Brooklyn’s Industry City is home to the newest Porsche showroom in NYC. CarPark partnered with the automaker to celebrate the opening and attempted to fill a parking lot with 100 vinta… Read More
2022-06-11 13:04
Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, Connecticut looked more green and under bright sunshine felt considerably warmer to less than a year ago when the 2021 Greenwich Concours d’Ele… Read More
2022-06-07 16:22
Founded in 2018, Mexico City-based MASA has quickly gained a reputation for staging exhibitions in unconventional locations. For the nomadic gallery’s first stop in the US, a former po… Read More
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