Friendly fire - Nicola Bednarek Brower

The AIGAs Fresh Dialogue series brings together emerging designers in annual roundtable discussions, providing them with a forum to talk about their work, thoughts, and ideas. Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire bridges the divide between high and low tech by focusing on two studios standing at opposite sides of the field of designed objects and social responsibility.

The 62 is a Brooklyn-based design and art collective that works with designers, artists, and social and not-for-profit organizations on projects that involve a vision of sustainable culture within a contemporary urban environment. Crye Associates design, engineer, and fabricate everything from light switches and handheld PCs to handgun components and GP racing motorcycles. As lead contractors on the U.S. militarys Project Scorpion they are reinventing everything worn or carried by a soldier.