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Dan Michalik

Designer, educator

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Dan Michalik

Daniel Michalik is a designer and design educator with a furniture and product design studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work focuses on researching and expanding overlooked materials to create objects that explore the intersections of material, culture and manufacturing

For almost two decades. Daniel has explored the secrets of cork, an engaging material with vast implications for healthier perspectives on design, agriculture and manufacturing. His New York City studio is dedicated to unlocking new material potential, exploring the deepest potentials of cork as an unusual natural material, allowing it to perform in new ways, and as no other material can. Experiments evolve into products that engage form, color and function.

Daniel has collaborated with clients worldwide, including Google, L’Oreal, Nike and Reddymade Architecture. His work has been exhibited internationally, and featured in publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Dwell, Sight Unseen, Dezeen, Phaidon Books, I.D., Wallpaper*, Interior Design and American Craft

Daniel is Professor of Product and Industrial Design at Parsons School of Design in New York City, and was recently a Visiting Researcher at Central Saint Martins in London. He is the partner of an artist, the father of two boys and an enthusiastic but mediocre skateboarder.

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