shaker round brick barn, hancock massachusetts . . .

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& shaker objects: shaker objects

the life of design educator extraordinaire, dan november . . .

in memoriam: daniel november, an iron man with a heart of gold . . .
pratt alumnus (a.a.s. 1963, b.id 1972) and full time professor in the department of industrial design, who had taught at pratt since 1986 died this autumn at the age of 75. a design educator extraordinaire, he was formerly with george […]

twentieth century pictograms, hieroglyphs & hans rudolf lutz

hans-rudolf lutz was born in zurich in 1939.
after completing a four-year typesetting apprenticeship with the orell füssli printing company in zurich, and continuing a career in the industry with the typographer arthur kümin and later the printer anton schöb, he left switzerland in 1961 to travel through europe and north africa. in 1963, he […]

type studies . . . from heinz hiltbrunner’s students in basel

more about heinz hiltbrunner: résumé hiltbrunner auf deutsch

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 . . .

visual narrative by eames demetrios: 77 steps . . .

in 2007 dan fogelson, vice president of sales / marketing at emeco (an abbreviation for: the electrical machine & equipment company) came to the industrial design department at pratt to talk about some of emeco’s recent project with designers / architects like, philippe starck, frank gehry, norman foster and ettore sottsass. besides a line of […]