Morning Salon Program Event Schedule
Morning Salon Sustainability Series at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Vision for the Series:
Create a new paradigm for cross discipline exploration of sustainability, its opportunities and issues and to have knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders be a bellwether event that catapults new relationships and new actions around sustainable products and services.
Our Spring Season Finale featuring Carl Minchew
VP of Color Innovation and Design
Benjamin Moore
The Morning Salon Series
Morning Salon brings together the best of US and International design companies and individuals for a thought-provoking design conversation around sustainability, product-making and innovation as companies shift towards the sustainable economy.
Morning Salon promotes communication, knowledge-sharing and relationships to further companies dealing with the opportunities and issues surrounding sustainability. We’re using the inspiration of Human Centred Design to help solve intractable problems and mine opportunities for sustainable solutions. Think about a mash-up of a TED-like talk, gamification and human centred design = Morning Salon.
The Morning Salon Program is designed to bring together a unique cross section of design professionals, brand, media, marketing and PR specialists, academics, entrepreneurs, sustainability professionals and the ancillary businesses service sustainable companies patronize to share know-how and ask and answer big questions around sustainability—the concept and practices that are being discovered, debunked and deployed every day. Given that sustainability is still in its implemented infancy, learning from thought leaders and practice leaders while hashing out everyday problems in starting and implementing sustainable processes and programs has us grappling for approachable solutions.
Carl Minchew Mr. Minchew is VP of Color Innovation and Design with responsibility for color systems, color tools and new approaches to marketing color. In the course of his 40+ years with Benjamin Moore, Mr. Minchew has managed paint manufacturing and operations at both a local and divisional level. He was an early advocate for environmental responsibility and sustainable production techniques. In addition, he has been intimately involved with product and facility compliance and was an industry delegate during the Regulatory Negotiation that led to the National Architectural and Industrial Maintenance Coatings VOC rule. He assembled a color technology group that successfully developed novel technology and is a co-inventor on several patents. He has been involved in a number of innovative projects including the Pocket Palette, an electronic hand-held color reader and the Gennex tinting system, a unique, waterborne system for tinting architectural coatings without adding VOC or compromising product performance.
Morning Salon with Carl Minchew
Thursday, June 18th
FIT
Dubinsky Center (27th / 8th Ave)
8th Floor
8:30 - 11:30am
$39
Seating is curated. Registration is required
May 10, 2015
Daniel Silverstein, Daniel Silverstein Designs + FashionStar
March 23, 2015
Jesse Finklestein, Partner of Print All Over Me
February 27, 2014
Vincent Appel, Founder of Possible Architectures
March 27, 2014
Darcey Howard, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Rogan/Loomstate
April 23, 2014
Christina Liedtke, Johnson & Johnson, Head of Global Sustainablility
Max Knecht, Johnson & Johnson, Product Design
May 14, 2014
Andy Ward, Acting Director, Garment BID NYC
Event Particulars:
Spring Morning Salon Series
Fashion Institute of Technology
Dubinsky Center (27th / 8th Ave)
8th Floor Atrium
NY, NY
8:30am - 11:30am
Registration prior to the event is required.