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 […]
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 […]
(das bauhaus kommt) as well as pratt id students &
professor lenny bacich comes to the bauhaus . . .
laura strasser, (former bauhaus exchange student at pratt) along with sven müller (not pictured here) are assisting lenny bacich during his semester as a guest professor at the bauhaus . . . jack foley, alvaro […]
performance piece: “die mechanische bauhausbühne”,
theater of sound, düsseldorf, germany
a ceremonial act commemorating the 90th anniversary of the beginning of
the bauhaus, april 1st, 2009. the honorary public lecture was given by
professor tomás maldonado, from mailand, italy . . .
tomás maldonado, in the publication ulm 8/9, september 1963:
“ist das bauhaus aktuell?”
designboom, february 24, 2009: […]
“the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting . . .”
on listening, essays by plutarch.
the spring, mid semester preliminary critique for making meaning was held on thursday, march 12th from 6:00 pm until around 9:30 pm . . .
in addition to the seniors […]
“the race is not to the swift,
but to those that can stand still
& 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.”
race & battle | d.h. lawrence
a picture of william fogler at […]
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
“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 (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 […]
