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ICFF

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The 30th annual ICFF NYC, North America’s platform for global design, will map the newest frontier of what’s best and what’s next at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, May 20-23, 2018. For the four-day duration of the Fair, the Javits Center will be abuzz with more than 36,000 interior designers, architects, retailers, representatives, distributors, facility managers, developers, manufacturers, store designers, and visual merchandisers. On Wednesday, May 23, the ICFF opens its doors to the general public as well.

Date and Time

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
5/20/2018 – 5/23/2018

Location

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 W. 34th St
New York, NY 10001

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ASID Business and Practice of Design CEU Series

ICFF annually lures those in determined pursuit of design’s timely truths and latest trends to an encyclopedic exhibition of up-to-the-moment offerings, as well as a series of fascinating, fun, edifying programs and a packed schedule of exhibits and features.

Sunday, May 20

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Getting Organized and Streamlining Your Workflow

Speaker: Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, NCIDQ, CID, Founder and Principal, Design Concepts Interiors

Design is only part of an interior designer's job – you're also responsible for scheduling client meetings, conducting design surveys, creating drawings and specs, and overseeing installations. Multiply this by the number of projects on your plate, and it's easy to become overwhelmed and disorganized. If you're an interior designer who owns a business or works at a design firm, this program is for you. Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, CID, NCIDQ, will show you how to load your tool box with the best implementation ingredients and help you get organized and streamline your workflow.

12:30 – 1 p.m.

Pop-Up: What’s in Your Productivity Tool Box?

Speaker: Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, NCIDQ, CID, Founder and Principal, Design Concepts Interiors

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

SCRAP CULTURE: Sustainable Design Practices in a World of Waste

Speaker: Royce Epstein, A&D Design Director, Mohawk Group

Today we live in a world that creates more waste than it does reduce, reuse, or recycle. Designers in all disciplines are trying to address this through the exploration of new materials and production processes, creating a new design language and landscape that moves beyond industry or craft. This presentation will look at how the design industry is using waste to create new things, bridging design and sustainability for interiors, architecture, product design, fashion, and the arts. Explore this new world of SCRAP CULTURE as we head towards 2020 and a new sustainable future.

3:30 – 4 p.m.

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Speaker: Royce Epstein, A&D Design Director, Mohawk Group

Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, NCIDQ, CID
Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, NCIDQ, CID

Founder and Principal, Design Concepts Interiors

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Royce Epstein
Royce Epstein

A&D Design Director, Mohawk Group

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Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, NCIDQ, CID

Phyllis Harbinger, ASID, CID, is a professional designer, author, speaker, and educator. She is the owner of Design Concepts/Interiors, LLC, which services both commercial and residential clients worldwide. 

Phyllis has served as president of the ASID NY Metro Chapter in 2014-15 and as chair of the ASID Chapter Support Team.  She is also a tenured adjunct assistant professor of interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), her alma mater, where she has been teaching Design Studio and Professional Practice for the past twenty years.

In 2014, Harbinger embarked on an editorial journey with Wiley Publishing and launched an exciting book, The Interior Design Productivity Toolbox, which streamlines processes and systems for interior designers, students and the design/build community. The book is available on Amazon.com, Wiley.com, and in Barnes & Noble bookstores.

As a direct result of the success of the book, Phyllis and her team launched Harbinger Design Consulting, to further her work with designers and the design/build community. She consults with entrepreneurs and provides a unique set of tools with which they can grow and manage their firms. 

Phyllis is a resident guest host of The Chaise Lounge, a critically acclaimed and globally recognized podcast serving the design community.   She can be heard monthly discussing a wide range of topics from branding to best business practices with the founder and owner, Nick May.  

Phyllis speaks on a wide variety of topics and has presented globally to architectural and design firms, design business conferences, and associations.  Her offerings include IDCEC approved CEU presentations: Toxic Clients and Representing Your Brand.  She is thrilled to present her strategies on Getting Organized and Streamlining Your Work Flow in her signature talk at ICFF 2018. 

Royce Epstein

Royce Epstein is the A&D design director for Mohawk Group. As the face to A&D, Royce shares her passion and vision for design, cultural trends, and the meaning of materials in a broad context. Her role is to evolve and share Mohawk Group’s design vision with the A&D community, and to leverage product design with what A&D desires in the field. Constantly on the watch for new trends in all aspects of design and culture, Royce feeds this insight to all industry touch points. A veteran materials and product specialist, Royce spent two decades working in A&D firms before working with Mohawk. She was named the 2015 Designer of the Year by Interiors and Sources Magazine, and received an HiP award for Rising Star from Interior Design Magazine at Neocon 2016. Royce lives in Philadelphia where she is active in the design, art, and music scenes. She is a board member of Collab at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Monday, May 21

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Your Firm’s Legal Contracts: Top 10 Things You Need to Know

Speaker: Alan M. Siegel, Hon. FASID, Partner, Levy Sonet & Siegel, LLP

A lawyer with expertise in interior design contract law, Alan M. Siegel will show you how to develop and use legal contracts to protect you and your business. Alan will provide critical insight from his 40+ year career working with top designers in the industry. The author of the interior design form contracts for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Alan will focus on key clauses from the new and reformatted 2018 agreements (available for purchase) to help you protect your firm, manage risk, and safeguard compensation.

12 – 12:30 p.m.

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2 – 3 p.m. 

Getting Your Stories Published – Strategies for a Digital Age

Speakers: Jennifer Quail, Editor-in-Chief, i+D Magazine, Christine Abbate, Founder & President, Novità Communications

The media landscape is constantly evolving and it is more important than ever to understand the opportunities to further the awareness of good design and the issues affecting our industry and world. Hear insider tips on getting your projects and stories published in an expanded range of print and digital outlets from leading design journalist Jennifer Quail of i+D Magazine, and PR/social media expert, Christine Abbate of Novità Communications.

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Pop-Up: Formatting Your Pitch Letter

Speaker: Jennifer Quail, Editor-in-Chief, i+D Magazine, Christine Abbate, Founder & President, Novità Communications

Alan M. Siegel, Hon. FASID Partner
Alan M. Siegel, Hon. FASID Partner

Levy Sonet & Siegel, LLP

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Chris Abbate
Chris Abbate

Founder & President, Novità Communications

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Jennifer Quail
Jennifer Quail

Editor-in-Chief, i+D Magazine

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Alan M. Siegel, Hon. FASID Partner

Alan M. Siegel has 40+ years of legal experience within the design and architectural industry and has represented the interests of interior designers, architects, product designers, and industry resources. For over twenty years, Alan served as national legal counsel to ASID, and is the author of the ASID interior design form contracts. For his years of service with ASID, Alan was named an ASID Honorary Fellow. He currently serves as the general counsel for both the Association for Contract Textiles, Inc. (ACT) and the Decorative Furnishing Association (DFA).

Additionally, Alan is a member of the national board of trustees of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), as well as trustee of the Angelo Donghia Foundation. He is the co-author of A Guide to Business Principles and Practices for Interior Designers, and is a frequent lecturer and contributor to design industry and trade group publications.

Chris Abbate

Prior to founding Novità in 1996, Christine Abbate was director of Marketing & Promotion for the Italian Trade Commission – Tile Center. She has extensive experience in PR, marketing, trade show/event planning, and design competition management, and lives and breathes design and architecture. A creative connector and consummate networker, Abbate has developed Novità into one of the leading PR and marketing agencies serving the design industry. She is currently on the board of trustees for DIFFA, the board of advisors for NYCxDesign, the board committees for marketing, PR, and conferences for Coverings, and the advisory board of Plus Pool.

Jennifer Quail

Jennifer Quail joined ASID in January 2017 as editor of the Society’s award-winning magazine, ICON, and now serves as editor-In-chief of i+D, the magazine of ASID and the Interior Designers of Canada. She has spent more than 15 years covering interior design, furnishings, and more for magazines in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Luxe Interiors + Design, FORM, ASPIRE, Design & Home, and About.com, where she served as home furnishings expert. Jennifer has a history with ASID, having served on the board of the ASID New York Metro chapter and as editor of both the ASID New York Metro and ASID New Jersey chapter magazines.

Throughout her career, Jennifer has been continually struck by the endless ways design effects our daily lives and experiences and is excited to bring her passion for the subject to the pages of i+D. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Drexel University and has taken assorted design classes covering theory, practice, and history at Parsons and NYU (with more still to come).

Tuesday, May 22

11 a.m. – 12 p.m. 

Global Forestry 101

Speaker: Grace Jeffers, Design Historian and Materials Specialist

The world is losing its forests at such an alarming rate we now have global laws in place to protect our remaining woodlands. This session guides designers through the dense undergrowth involved in protecting forests. Designers will learn about endangered trees, illegal logging, and how to identify the origin of wood before they specify. Global Forestry 101 also explores how to identify illegally obtained wood and reviews legal alternatives that protect forests and satisfy client needs. Recent global laws are very serious and we will explore stark examples for design professionals to note to protect their practices.

12 – 12:30 p.m.

Pop-Up: Legal Versus Illegal Wood Sourcing: What to Look For

Speaker: Grace Jeffers, Design Historian and Materials Specialist

2 – 2:30 p.m.

Working Well: Strategies and Context

Speaker: A.J. Paron-Wildes, Allied ASID, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP, Associate AIA, National Architectural and Design Manager, Allsteel

Wellness programs have been growing in popularity, in part, due to the significant impacts they can have on workplace health, satisfaction, and ultimately the bottom line. Traditionally, wellness programs have focused on individual considerations; however, the built environment can also foster mental and physical wellness. A.J. Paron-Wildes will present the essential elements of wellness programs and provide the designer considerations that can foster wellness or well-being in a variety of settings – from the office to home to hospitality spaces. Attendees will discuss strategies to design an environment that holistically considers the health and well-being of occupants and will receive an introduction to wellness standards.

3 – 3:00 p.m. 

Pop-Up: Creating a Healthier You

Speaker: A.J. Paron-Wildes, Allied ASID, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP, Associate AIA, National Architectural and Design Manager, Allsteel

 

Grace Jeffers
Grace Jeffers

Design Historian and Materials Specialist

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A.J. Paron-Wildes, Allied ASID, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP, Associate AIA
A.J. Paron-Wildes, Allied ASID, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP, Associate AIA

National Architectural and Design Manager, Allsteel

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Grace Jeffers

Grace Jeffers is an esteemed design historian who focuses exclusively on materials. A graduate of the Bard Graduate Center, Jeffers is intent on considering the "big picture" of design. Her unique approach blends material science with social history, art history, and design practice. She teaches people how to think differently about design.

Since childhood, Jeffers has been intrigued by pattern and the materials that comprise design objects. I At the age of nine, she rejected the paper doilies chosen by other students and shingled her Valentines Day project in laminate; by the age of 16, she was designing a line of hand-painted clothing that was sold by Marshall Fields department store in Chicago. Jeffers has become an innovative designer of patterns for paper, flooring, laminate, and a range of other decorative surfacing materials, working for over ten different major manufacturers including NASA, Burberry, and Airstream.  Her core interest lies in the intersections between design and nature, between art and artifice. In 2014, she presented Manmade Natural--her ASID and IIDEC approved lecture about the authenticity of materials and our preconceptions about them--at over 20 venues across the United States.

Jeffers' definitive project is the restoration of the Ralph and Sunny Wilson House in Temple, Texas, for which she received the prestigious Merit Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation based on her unprecedented argument that the use of modern materials in architecture warrants recognition. To date, the Wilson House, which makes extensive and pioneering use of laminates, is the only structure on the National Register of Historic Places listed because of its use of material. 

A passionate writer about materials and the issues surrounding them, Jeffers has served as a contributor and design editor to architectural trade magazines such as Interior Design and Surface for over seventeen years; all told, she has written over 400 articles on the subjects of design, materials, and design history. She contributed to the catalog of the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition, "Skin: Surface and Substance in Contemporary Design," and her work has been reported in The New York Times. Whether teaching, lecturing, designing, or writing, Jeffers questions preconceptions about design and gives her audience a new framework with which to consider the material world.

A.J. Paron-Wildes, Allied ASID, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP, Associate AIA

A.J. Paron-Wildes has acquired significant experience working in the design industry.  She has created and led a multi-million dollar award-winning design firm, developed national programs for ASID,, developed and funded design research programs for the University of Minnesota, and pioneered various charitable programs.  She, and her work, have been featured in many media outlets such as Architectural Digest, HGTV, PBS, and Bob Vila.

Recognized as a design thought-leader by ASID, A.J. helps corporate clients look to the future when designing their spaces and facilities. She specializes in design implementation and collaboration, environmental initiatives/LEED, and change management. She has served as a design judge for several design professional organizations and Metropolis Magazine. A.J. has been honored with accolades from numerous organizations like NKBA, NARI, Chrysalis Awards, USGBC, and ASID.

Over forty publications have published articles about projects completed by A.J. In 2013, she finished a trilogy interior design e-book series published by Wiley. Professionally, she is serving the design industry as the national architectural and design manager for Allsteel, an office furniture company for the contract industry.