Closing Bell: Design Fest Comes to Sunset Park

If you’ve noted an above-average number of stylish types buzzing around Sunset Park’s industrial precincts this week it’s due to WantedDesign Brooklyn, a 12-day festival that runs at Industry City through next Tuesday.

There will be installations, pop-up stores, workshops, demonstrations, forums and other design-centric programming. There’s a daily exhibition whose offerings include an interactive mural designed by Dusen Dusen using magnetic wallpaper, above. Visitors can place magnetic geometric shapes anywhere on the wallpaper’s surface, creating a constantly shifting pattern.

This is WantedDesign’s first foray into Brooklyn. The previously Manhattan-only showcase is part of NYCxDesign, a five-year-old annual citywide design celebration in the five boroughs. (It also includes BKLYN DESIGNS, which took place in Greenpoint last weekend.)

The goal of NYCxDesign is to bring together creative types from across various disciplines, showcase New York as a design destination and promote “awareness of and appreciation for design by all audiences.”

For a full program and a daily schedule of events, click here.

Photo via WantedDesign Brooklyn