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Chia Wei Sun, SCAD graduate candidate.

NEW YORK—The Savannah College of Art and Design’s furniture design department will showcase the best student designs at “What’s New, What’s Next @ 200 Lex,” a new product showcase featuring hundreds of introductions from nearly 100 participating showrooms, hosted by the New York Design Center, Sept. 23, 2-9 p.m. Designers, consumers, manufacturers and press will attend an afternoon and evening celebrating the very best in design. SCAD is the only collegiate institution showcasing work, which will be on display through October 7.
 
The work by SCAD students and alumni, located on the seventh floor, represents new exciting ideas from young designers exercising their creativity in a range of materials and processes. Plastics to natural and synthetic materials, high-tech computer modeling and traditional methods are employed to develop concepts for prototyping and exhibit.
 
At SCAD, students in the furniture design department hone their skills as designers by mastering the fundamentals and learning the design processes through which products are conceived, developed, fabricated and marketed. Student designs are tested for style, comfort, utility and durability through the creation of computer renderings, scale models or prototypes, and students are taught to seek new applications for traditional practices and sustainable approaches to natural materials, encouraging them to become accountable for the broader impact of their ideas.
 
Always in the forefront of design, the NYDC will return to its roots, reclaiming itself as the place to introduce new products. This inaugural event will mark the first time the NYDC and its showrooms will unite and focus on all things new. Designer conversations, presentations, book signings and the industry’s top editors will showcase what’s “new” and “next” in the design industry.
 
“What’s New, What’s Next @ 200 Lex” will feature exclusive and informative programming to accompany the hundreds of new products being introduced. Noted designers such as Ted Boerner, Kirk Brummel, Mariette Himes Gomez, Jiun Ho and Vladimir Kagan are just some of the guest presenters who will be in attendance for the event. For a full list of “What’s New, What’s Next @ 200 Lex” programming visit www.nydc.com.