A program of The Corning Museum of Glass

The goal:

Designs that respond to the full potential

of glass as a material

The problem:

Limited opportunities for designers

to freely experiment with hot glassmaking processes

The solution:

GlassLab

Glass is an ancient material that

has shaped and changed our world.

Access to hot glassmaking processes

is limited and opportunities for

designers to freely experiment

with the material are rare.

We bring the glass. You bring your sketchbook.

GlassLab’s mobile equipment can be deployed virtually anywhere.

Ten–Day Design Retreats

Held annually at Domaine de Boisbuchet

in Lessac, France. Presented in collaboration

with The Vitra Design Museum and CIRECA.

Multi-Day Design Performances

Presented at public design venues such as

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum;

Design Miami, and Vitra Design Museum.

Half-Day Design Workshops

Offered at The Corning Museum of Glass

and select locations around the world

Three ways to participate:

GlassLab offers an unprecedented way

for designers to discover the potential

of hot glassmaking processes through

creative exploration and experimentation. It’s

an immersive, collaborative experience that is

informed by the ever-changing and immediate

nature of the material itself.

Process

In GlassLab sessions, designers collaborate

with master glassmakers from The Corning

Museum of Glass to freely experiment with

hot glass. Designers bring their sketchbooks

and work alongside master glassmakers in a

mobile glassblowing hot shop. Participants

have the rare opportunity to rapidly prototype

design concepts in glass and to learn

from the properties of glass that

they observe and discover.

Object

Harry Allen Yves Béhar Constantin & Laurene Boym

Campana Brothers Francisco Costa Matali Crasset

Michele Oka Doner Tim Dubitsky Sebastian Errazuriz

Paul Haigh Sigga Heimis Ladd Brothers Arik Levy

Miami Design and Architecture Senior High

Jason Miller Sigi Moeslinger/Antenna Design

Ted Muehling Jon Otis Chad Phillips/Kid Robot

Masamichi Udagawa/Antenna Design Massimo Vignelli

Tobias Wong & Tom Scott

Designers

Presented by The Corning Museum of Glass

Partners

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY USA

Design Miami, Miami, FL USA

Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

www.cmog.org/glasslab