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New York, NY, September 24, 2003....
It's not your ordinary charity drive. Info Edge and SpecSimple.com's
Annual Design Literature and Sample Box-a-Thon keeps design students
in the "mix" by recycling cool finish samples from the "closets" of
major design firms.
The biggest names in architecture and design: Robert A. M Stern,
Mancini Duffy, KPF, HOK, IA, Fox & Fowle and many others will be
rolling up their sleeves on October 7-9, packing up boxes filled with
product literature and samples they no longer need. An army of
furniture dealers (including Dancker, Sellew & Douglas, GOE, WB Wood,
Arenson Office Furnishings and EvensonBest) will collect the boxes
and deliver them to FIT, Parsons, Pratt, SVA and The New York School
of Interior Design.
To cheer the designers on, Manufacturers, reps and others are invited
to sponsor each box packed up starting at $25 a box. All money
raised goes to scholarships for design students to help maintain
their schools' libraries. Firms who collect the most money from
their "Box-a-Thon" sponsors are eligible to win prizes. "The prizes
are terrific," says Suzanne Swift, President of Info Edge and
SpecSimple.com. "Herman Miller, Heller, Cumberland, Keilhauer and
Boyd have donated some really great prizes to reward our top boxers."
"Today's design students are better prepared to be tomorrow's
business leaders because of the support of Info Edge, Inc. and
SpecSimple.com," says Lovejoy Duryea, Chairman of the Interior Design
Department at the School of Visual Arts. Ms. Duryea also praises
SpecSimple.com's pioneering efforts, because their "scholarship sets
a trend and raises the bar for the industry."
To participate in this year's drive visit
http://www.specsimple.com/drive/drive.html to sign up.
The drive will be held October 7th through October 9th, 2003.
For more information contact:
Suzanne Swift
t 212.352.2002 x11
f 212.352.1422
e infoedge@specsimple.com
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