Posts from November 2009

pratt’s id crew & nyu’s itp crew share design strategies . . .

pratt’s idsa student chapter & id instructor, noah king organized a two day collaborative event between pratt’s industrial design department and new york university’s tisch school of the arts, itp (interactive telecommunications program) students. some of the collaborators are, among others, jess fugler, susan ngo, eddie de martino, sean gordon, michael kelberman, noah king, marko […]

posted 24 November 2009

categories education

studio portal: portraits of the artists as young men & women

pratt studios room 59, is the home this semester to twelve id juniors in jeanne pfordresher’s studio section and the entrance is not just the approach to the shared work space, but also a graphic portrayal in images to the individual characters that are setting their sights on becoming designers and how they see themselves. […]

posted 16 November 2009

categories photos

making meaning’s roadtrip to swayspace . . .

making meaning took a roadtrip to swayspace on november 5th to understand more deeply the importance of expressing messages, information and graphics, beautifully well. the prime movers and shakers, willy schwenzfeier and patrick fenton, along with their design crew that includes shannon and ben, gave us a window into their design process and the rather […]

posted 6 November 2009

categories design, education

empathy for culture as a living organism . . .

here’s an interesting exhibit at the cooper hewitt until january 4, 2010:
cooper hewitt’s design for a living world exhibit
in addition (& it seems rather serendipitous), on may 23rd of this year, artist & instructor, rebecca welz went to guyana with 11 pratt graduate & undergraduate industrial design students on an experiment in understanding culture […]

posted 4 November 2009

categories education