fat tuesday & the race is not to the swift . . .

“the race is not to the swift,
but to those that can stand still
and let the waves go over them.
the battle is not to the strong,
but to the frail, who know best
how to efface themselves
to save the streaked pansy of the heart from being trampled to mud.” […]

peter keetman’s photographs of vw’s factory in wolfsburg

if you’re not familiar with peter keetman’s photographs (from 1948 until 1974) of the vw factory in wolfsburg, germany, you might want to take a look at this pdf file:
vw werk wolfsburg, peter keetman
steidl publishing: gestaltete welt | designed world | peter keetman

abstraction & the graham field project results . . .

“education is a social process; education is growth; education is not
a preparation for life but is life itself.” john dewey
graham field • pratt presentation

jeff kapec (along with sergio silva) emphasized that for this project, our id students utilize abstraction to explore design through physical and visual experience to discoverer ideas that […]

louise swärdshammar’s impressions of new york . . .

louise swärdshammar (formerly louise häggberg), designer, instructor and visiting research scholar from sweden to pratt institute’s department of industrial design, lived & worked in brooklyn for a period of about a year and a half from the late summertime of 2007 until the end of the year holiday season of 2008.
during that time, among […]

gg has moved from chelsea to new mexico . . .

the third image below is from summer 2008, of tarik currimbhoy with gerald gulotta in gerald’s 26th street studio in chelsea. on february 9th this year, gerald moved to be with his family in santa fe, new mexico. we that have know gerald from many years of living & working in new york, will […]