FLOX Anniversary Celebration 2021
In August, FLOX Studio got to do one thing we cherish so much: be in community with the people we love.
To celebrate 1-year of FLOX, we took a moment to reflect on the past but also look forward. See what Sloan, Founder and CEO, had to say about this joyous moment!
Dear Friends of FLOX,
When Wesley Hall (my best friend and brilliant creative) and I decided to start FLOX in January 2019, we were working on a hunch... and a hope. A hope that our community and network would be interested in exploring the connection between community, design, and social justice.
That exploration led us to building the first FLOX co-operator crew (special shout out to Laneen, Stephanie, Lucia and Eli). Nearly every month in 2019 we hosted a 20-person FLOX Lab (a dinner-based design sprint) and engaged almost 200 people. It was a powerful and very special experience.
A few months after our last event, the pandemic hit NYC. And as we all scattered (Lucia to Cali, Steph to DC, etc), I was here -- thinking about what our next iteration would be.
With support and encouragement from all of you -- we launched as FLOX Studio in August 2020. Since we launched we have worked with amazing clients to:
- Build a more collective governance and program development model with an NYC based professional design association
- Design an economic justice accelerator that specifically serves black communities in Brooklyn
- Establish new ways of learning and growing together within a start-up that helped defeat Trump
- Hold space for emerging and established designers to evolve their practice to be more community informed
It’s been a truly transformational experience.
sloan leo
Although the weather literally rained on our parade, it didn’t stop FLOX and fam from celebrating through community, eating, laughing, dancing and holding joy together. Here’s to the future!