Luxxbox Bites The Big Apple For Global Design Summit

Luxxbox Bites the Big Apple for Global Design Summit

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22 March 2010

Brisbane Industrial Designer Jason Bird, the highly awarded founder of Luxxbox will showcase his work to an international design audience in New York City in May 2010 for the 22nd Annual International Convention Furniture Fair (ICFF).

Luxxbox earned a place at the fair after undergoing an extensive entry and review process resulting in them being granted highly sought after exhibition space. Luxxbox is the only Australian design studio and Australian company to successfully progress through the selection process and exhibit at this year's event.

The ICFF is North America's singular showcase for leading contemporary design, a global summit based on the best and what's next for the design industry. During the fair's four days at the Jacob K. Javits Centre, over 500 designers and exhibitors will display contemporary furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, material, wall coverings, accessories, textiles and kitchen and bath for residential and commercial properties. The ICFF gives guests an opportunity to experience the worlds most creative and original avant-garde home and dcor products.

Mr Bird will exhibit both new and unreleased Luxxbox designs as well as some of his winning designs from the 2009 Queensland Design on Show (qdos) awards.

The selection of his previously awarded designs on show will include; Brainwash Collection, an espresso culture caf series of stools, tables and benches and Phase pendant a luminary design.

Both the Tingle and Radii collections will be on display during the four day fair. Tingle is a series of interior or exterior low seating and table collection incorporating a range of mix and match colours. Luxxbox's latest designs Haven pendant (lighting), Watch Out pendant (lighting), 1Eighth bench, Chunk Monitor stand and cable management will all debut at the fair in May.

The ICFF will be held from May 15-18 at the Jacob K. Javits Centre and the Luxxbox designs along with Jason Bird will be located at stand number 1761.

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Contact: Jason Bird Ph: +61 7 3252 1633 E: [email protected]
Website: www.luxxbox.com

MEDIA CONTACT: Peta Ellis, City Publicity Ph: +61 420 374 733
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About Luxxbox www.luxxbox.com
Luxxbox was founded in 2006 as a vehicle for Industrial Designer Jason Bird to design and manufacture his own collection of diverse commercial and domestic products. With a long and varied career already under his belt, including as co-founder of design studio Acid Light, and accolades and exhibitions reaching from Australia to Tokyo and New York, Jason's savvy is channelled into Luxxbox's unique aesthetic version of urban design.

Luxxbox's designs are a visual display of strength in form, with decorative illumination and lifestyle/furniture products that explore negative space, with industrial finishes his class of choice. The use of unconventional materials, colours and local production techniques pushes boundaries to make a statement in style.

Luxxbox is committed to supporting Queensland and Australian manufacturers and in doing so is continually evolving its design and production techniques. As a result, Luxxbox products embody a uniquely Australian influence which is being appreciated across the globe for its refreshing take on modern, cutting edge design.

Awards: Qdos 2009 (Queensland Design on show Awards)
Brainwash Collection Gold, Furniture Design
Phase Pendant Gold, Luminare Design
Tingle Silver, Furniture Design
Radii Collection, Silver, Furniture Design.

About Jason Bird
Jason Bird graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Built Environment) and a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Design with distinction from Queensland University of Technology in 1991.

His career in luminaire design began at one of Australia's largest commercial architectural lighting manufacturers. In 1995 Jason relocated to the USA, where among other projects, he designed for BK Lighting, Lucifer Lighting as well as being commissioned to design a track lighting range for Prescolite, part of a US Fortune 150 company.

Upon returning to Australia in 1998, Jason again worked in architectural lighting, leading an internal design team. Here he combined high-tech production processes with innovative design techniques to produce products for both the Australian and international markets.

Jason founded his own design studio, Acidlight in 2001. His first range of products under this name was extremely well received and widely reviewed within the Australian design community. In particular, three products where exhibited at the Glow:Body of Light exhibition hosted by Object galleries at Sydney's Circular Quay as part of the 2001 Sydney Festival. October 2002 saw two of Jason's products exhibited as part of the Hybrid Objects Australian design exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo during Tokyo Designers Block.


SOURCE: Luxxbox