CW&T

CW&T is the art and design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy, who met at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and have worked from a Brooklyn studio and prototyping shop since 2009. Their backgrounds in architecture, film and computer science feed a scale-agnostic way of making that moves between software, sculpture and objects built to last generations.

The studio designs, machines and assembles its own editions — the Solid State Watch, Time Since Launch, the Pen Type-C, the M.R. Tape Dispenser and a high-speed jump rope — testing each idea through sketching, prototyping and code before release. CW&T received the 2022 National Design Award for Product Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and Wang and Levy teach at Pratt Institute, NYU and the School for Poetic Computation.