Blue Practice took to the convention halls of Downtown LA June 5-8th, 2008 for the third annual Dwell on Design Conference + Expo, where we registered over 150 media representatives for the show!

The conference was kicked off by LA City Council President, Eric Garcetti who discussed LA's green building and smart development future and how the Dwell community has bolstered that progression. The topics over two days ranged from a LEED mandated future for LA building to the state of the prefab home movement to landscape design and "immortality through product" or the way designers can use product design as a way to imprint culture with an enduring mark.

The Expo was packed with 12,000 people checking out over 200 of the most innovative breaking sustainable modern design products including a whole "pop up" prefab neighborhood, a LifePod solar residential structure and the Ecoshack Yurt, a product that David Keeps from the LA Times says “re-imagines living spaces in green fashion.”

As the future permanent home of the Dwell on Design show, LA was the ideal backdrop for the myriad events, home tours and parties that rounded out the weekend.