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  • Jessica Fugler

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    fuglerj@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Jessica Fugler

    Profile

    Jess Fügler is an American designer whose work explores ideas of narrative, process, and value in domestic objects. Inspired by past and current cultures along with industrial production and handcraft, Jess' work possesses a poetic playfulness driven by a hands-on approach to materials and making.

    Jess lives and works in New York where she runs her own studio practice. She is the Co-Founder of Other Kingdom and teaches at Parsons School of Design. Alongside her own practice, Jess currently is the Design Lead at Sabai, a sustainable furniture company, with notable past roles as a Senior Product Developer for HAY, the Design Director for Matter Made, Industrial Designer at Quirky, and Designer at David Weeks Studio.

     

    Degrees Held

    MA Design Products, Royal College of Art, London UK, 2014

    BID Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 2010

    Gestaltung Exchange Program, Bauhaus Universiät-Weimar, Weimar Germany, 2009

    Professional Affiliation

    www.jessfugler.com

    www.sabai.design

    www.hay.dk

    www.mattermade.us

    Performances and Appearances

    Exhibitions:

    2022  Paraphernalia, New York
    2022  Verso Showroom, New York
    2022  Piece of Earth, Finland
    2022  East to West, Schloss Hollenegg, Austria
    2022  Atlas of Lost Finds,Design Fest Gent, Belgium
    2019  London Design Festival, London
    2018  Maison Objet, Paris
    2017  OFFSITE Selects, New York
    2017  Rumors Fly, New York
    2016  Lexus at Salone del Mobile, Milan
    2016  OFFSITE, New York
    2016  American Design Club Growth, New York
    2015  Community of Craft, London
    2014  Sustain RCA, London
    2014  Big Small Show, London
    2014  Droog’s Construct-de-Construct, Amsterdam

    Research Interests

    Craft Techniques, Alternative/New Production Methods, Material and Process Exploration, Design Narrative

    Awards And Honors

    2022 Taattisten Tila Design Residency, Finland
    2019  Riedel Design Finalist
    2018  Sight Unseen’s Best of NY Design Week
    2018  Sight Unseen’s Best of Maison Objet
    2017  Lexus Design Award Finalist
    2016  Selected for Elle Decor’s ‘What’s Hot’ List
    2014  People of Print Graduate Award Finalist
    2012  IMM Cologne D3 Furniture Award Finalist

    Current Courses

    Computer-Aided Industrial Des
    PUPD 2090, Spring 2025

    Future Courses

    Design Studio 3
    PUPD 3010, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    Design Studio 1
    PUPD 2010, Fall 2024

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