PROJECT No. 8, New York

Elizabeth Beer & Brian Janusiak formed Various Projects as a multidisciplinary design collaboration, in 2005. The store on Division St., NYC (PROJECT No. 8) is their eighth project together.

In many, but not all cases, they have looked to work with people who are creating things outside of or alongside their main projects. Having a retail space is a chance for them to experiment with - more publicly - some themes that reoccurred in their own work: concerns with distribution, collaboration, sustainability, digression and the creation of fluxuating communities. They have tried to imagine the store to be in part a place for the projects people had no immediate or obvious home for, liking the idea of digression as an intentional (and sometimes necessary) change of subject.