Material Bank

One of the most innovative things we saw at NeoCon 2019 this past June, on the first floor of theMART in Chicago, was Material Bank. Created by Adam Sandow, chairman and founder of the Sandow Media company, Material Bank bills itself as “the world’s largest material library created for the design industry. Material Bank provides a solution to the long-archaic nature of how design firms go about searching for and specifying materials for their projects. The service, exclusively available to design professionals for free, enables designers from participating firms to order samples until midnight (EST) each day and guarantees those samples arrive by 10:30am the very next morning.” From Material Bank press notes: “Adam and his team developed a proprietary design tray out of the SANDOW R&D Lab located in its NYC HQ that ships an average of five different brands per box in just one, in lieu of design …