brooklyn goodbye & fruit super design . . .

on july 25th a group of people got together at public house on de kalb avenue to wish sallyann & joe well as they embarked upon a new adventure very far away from brooklyn . . . like berries & fruits that can be both bitter & sweet at the same time, we will miss […]

hand held products . . .

two examples of hand held products by former wentworth institute of technology, industrial design students: peter swai & rei sohji . . . both designs have a special quality that is hard to achieve without an enormous amount of attention to the tactile (haptic) character of these objects as they relate to the human hand.

hands, objects & human factors . . .

handles & hands, one / two handedness:
handle it . . .

handles & hands, one / two handedness:
handle it . . .

untitled, zero . . .

untitled |ˌənˈtītld|
adjective
1 (of a book, composition, or other artistic work) having no name.
2 (of a person) not having a title indicating high social or official rank:
lesser untitled officials.
untitled, zero . . .

jörg ratzlaff: gabriele, 1984

kalmar & linnæus university (swedish: linnéuniversitetet)

this spring per lundberg from the international offices of kalmar & växjö university came to visit pratt’s industrial design department / international affairs office on may 14th, 2009 for an update on how the id’s programs newest exchange program is doing & to let us know that, as of january 2010, kalmar/växjö university will (be […]

good domestic products & robert langhorn’s id seniors . . .

on wednesday, may 6th, the id seniors in robert langhorn’s studio exhibited their final projects for gdp | good domestic products | the opening started at 6:00pm, at 124 washington avenue, brooklyn and went until late into the evening . . .
g.d.p. & industrial design at pratt, part one
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sbb cff ffs & the brünig retrofit program . . .

one important goal of a large company such as swiss federal railways, is to maintain a high design standard for a very long period of time. this aspects of the work can be seen in the brünig’s retrofit program, were the mandate was to improve a seasoned fleet of rolling stock vehicles through design improvements, […]

lucia de respinis’ adventures with id student . . .

lucia & elizabeth pavese at the rrk award ceremony,
at knoll, in january 2008 . . .

the work below, from lucia de respinis’ junior studio class, helped anna sfinarolakis win a fifteen thousand dollar windgate fellowship. anna used the fellowship money, in part, for a three month artist in residency at the european ceramic center […]

longoland at pratt: josh’s work & the work of his students . . .

josh longo is interested in story telling, developing characters and among other things, explorations with soft materials in his own work, as well as the work of his pratt industrial design students. last spring was the first time josh was teaching three dimensional abstraction in the industrial design department and he has approached this possibility […]

franco clivio & hidden forms . . .

while overlooking johann wolfgang von goethe’s garden in weimar, franco clivio & wolfgang sattler were discussing the lecture on clivio’s new book, that he would give on april 2nd . . .

franco clivio: shaper, designer, lecturer & collector, shows the complexity of the design process, not by design objects, but on the basis […]