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    Detroit Design Center Outside Art in Motion!

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This story starts with the Nordin Brothers, Israel and Erik Nordin, who are industrial artists based out of Detroit. You unknowingly may have seen their work and just did not know it was them. If you saw the D Burst on New Year’s Eve, which dropped at midnight at Campus Martius or One World and Under Michigan Stars, then you have seen the excessively big and public artwork of the Detroit Design Center. Owned and operated by the Nordin Brothers and family.

https://www.detroitdesigncenter.com/

I had the opportunity to catch up with Israel Nordin and his other half, wife Amanda Nordin, first at his gallery located at 4225 Third Street in Detroit’s Midtown and later in the day at his workspace located at 6100 Michigan Ave in Southwest Detroit, east of Corktown. Detroit Design is the brand as far as industrial public art goes in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs.

The question is if you’re lucky enough to have this esteemed company take you on as a client, then you may have something worth fighting for. Examples of high-profile clients include Dan Gilbert, the City of Detroit, Chabad Lubavitcher Chabad in the D’s Menorah, and others who have deep investments in the City of Detroit

because if you want your space to be the it location, then you should start making reservations and an appointment to speak with Izzy, as he is affectionately known to his close circle of friends. https://youtube.com/shorts/BEGhYIjvnJA?feature=share

The Nordins are low-key and non-pretentious as trendsetters in the City of Detroit and beyond. One fair question is this: Is this low-key approach and non-pretentious attitude the secret sauce to being official art aficionados and movers and shakers on a scene that can be just the opposite?

Written By DeShean M. McClinton

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