CW&T exists to create the things we want to see in the world.
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CW&T started as and remains the two-person design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy.
With backgrounds in Architecture, Film and Computer Science, the duo met at NYU ITP where they began their scale and medium agnostic approach to design.
Wang and Levy lecture extensively on design and technology as a creative medium. They have taught courses on time, electronics, hardware, programming, inflatables and morphology at Pratt Institute, New York University and the School for Poetic Computation. Their pedagogy extends into the home/studio where they host office hours to lend a hand, or offer insight to anyone interested in figuring out how to make something themselves.
CW&T is the recipient of the 2022 National Design Award for Product Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
CW&T live and work in their Brooklyn-based studio and prototyping shop along with their two young children, Pau and Tree.
Since 2009, our work has spanned from interactive software to human-scaled tools that enhance our relationships to work, life and time.
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Our practice centers around an iterative process of sketching, prototyping, testing, writing code, machining parts, and building each edition ourselves to assess our intuitions around improving our everyday experiences.
Projects range from devices that alter our perception of time, an electronics curriculum for artists, an astrological compass for space travelers, to objects engineered to last multiple generations.
Whether by changing expectations around how long products could last, challenging conventional timekeeping or reconsidering simple routines, we design each project with analogous guiding principles that have been ingrained into our home and work.
Sharing our process with our community is essential to our practice. We cultivate an ethos of openness through teaching, open source software + hardware, and by providing support for others to create self-sufficient design practices.
You can view our obsessive documentation alongside each of our products and follow our work in progress on instagram @charliewhiskeytango.
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Che-Wei Wang
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Che-Wei Wang [pron. sey-wey] is an artist, designer, architect, and engineer with proficiency in fabrication technologies, electronics, CNC machining, and metal manufacturing. Applying his diverse skill set, he creates innovative products - from architectural and sculptural pieces to interactive installations, mobile apps and everyday products. He has been honored with the SOM fellowship, and the Alumni Achievement Award from Pratt Institute. For years, he has demonstrated his enthusiasm for teaching by instructing classes on design, timekeeping, creative computing, and inflatables. Che-Wei is an alumnus of MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU, and Pratt Institute.
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Taylor Levy
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Taylor Levy [pron. tey-ler] is an artist & designer with a penchant for taking things apart, understanding how they work, and then putting them back together in a way that exposes their inner workings.The results take on a variety of forms from low-tech electronic sculpture to high-tech software & other executions. She has work on view at The Leonardo Museum of Science and Technology and was a resident at Fabrica Interactive in Treviso, Italy. She is an alumna of MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU, and Vassar College.
Contact
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For inquiries about your order, please contact: hello[at]cwandt.com
For all other inquiries, please contact: cwandt[at]cwandt.com
Address: 493 Greene Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Telephone: +1 347 987 0001
Alumni
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Sam Galison
Aziz Nawrozie
Christina Xu
Baptiste Portefaix
Josh Chamberlain
Molly Ritmiller
Mengxi He
The Label System
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We make a lot of things. Part of our practice is showing our process. So, From inception to execution, everything we make is assigned a label to track and share its development over time.
From the first sketch at the onset of a project, it's assigned a Project ID. The Project ID is created with a formula that pulls from a selection of variables.
the dot color is generated from that ID.
CW&T Identity System
[DECODED]
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