an everyday utilitarian object, the swiss army knife . . .

some of my own exploration of an everyday utilitarian object, namely the swiss army knife in basel switzerland (hochschule für kunst & gestaltung) came full circle a few years later, when i worked with nick weinberg in boston (at wentworth institute of technology, the industrial design program) on a directed studies project to design a […]

visual narrative by keen gat, à la pratt id (& edward tufte)

keen gat’s visual interpretation of her first semester in graduate school at pratt, in a temporal sense . . . that was the beginning & here is a link to the culmination & new beginning:

http://prattidthesis.blogspot.com/2008/03/keen-gat.html
one example from edward tufte’s work:
essay: the cognitive style of powerpoint
16 edward tufte prints; images from the […]

three examples of exchange experiences at pratt

this should be the beginning of a rather long but very colorful journey, here are just three examples from the students that have visited / studied at pratt’s industrial design department from bauhaus universität weimar:

1) laura strasser, our first student from the bauhaus, was greatly inspired by ceramics instructor, irv tepper, which led to […]

the essence of spaces evokes . . .

thirty spokes meet in the hub . . . lao tse

spaces evoke emotion . . .

id view images . . . spring 2008

here’s the link to the id view, spring ’08 powerpoint presentation:
id view images spring 2008
karen auster from bklyn designs & pratt id students . . .