Posts in the category education
winter design solstice . . .
mm: making meaning
industrial design studio: matthew burger • jeff kapec
december 11th – 15th, autumn semester 2010
pratt studios 43, pratt institute, brooklyn, nyc.
id seniors & project topics:
mayang anggraeni • headphones
jessica doutrich • hybrid animals
elice ferrell • hats
kousaku haruguchi • patient room
chia-lin hsu • stomach monsters
chelsea johnson • emotional dolls
taehoon kim • trash can
adam miller • […]
posted 16 December 2010
categories education
form, texture & pattern inceptions in paper, for ralph pucci . . .
congratulations to all of the students from pratt institute’s school of art & design that participated with ralph pucci international on their conceptual paper project. i would especially like to congratulate all the id graduate & id undergraduate students, along with their industrial design faculty advisor, josh longo, for the quality of work that […]
posted 9 December 2010
walking the earth . . .
people put their foot to the ground everyday without even thinking about it or being consciously aware of what’s happening; the behavior that we call walking can also be described as a physical repetitive motion of a body falling forward. usually people are wearing some sort of boot, shoe or sandal and if their inside, […]
posted 15 November 2010
bruce mau & institutional education . . .
a superb story teller and design provocateur, bruce mau was in brooklyn last night to discuss the future of institutional education and how to advance development at bastions of higher learning at an exponential rate. i encourage you to take a look at the (unfortunately slightly off center, poorly focused in the dark room) short […]
posted 5 November 2010
categories education
brains & beauty: making meaning’s visual narrative at midstream
many would generally include in a broad definition of design, to varying degrees,
a mixture of art and science. bruce mau recently commented that he see it as,
“a mixture of brains & beauty.” i like to think of our making meaning design students as hybrids, where we (jeff kapec and myself) are asking them […]
posted 28 October 2010
categories education
alphabets for the blind & asphalt: mcvey hardware
if you are interested in disparate dialogue about the nature of things related to the arts, the sciences, design and technology, in the character of james burke’s * book, the pinball effect, then i would encourage you to look at john mc vey’s website called hardware. i have known john for about ten years as […]
posted 21 September 2010
storm king turns fifty & making meaning turns five . . .
on saturday september 11th, at beginning of autumn semester at pratt and the fifth year of making meaning, we went to storm king art center, which happens to be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary . . . the weather couldn’t have been better for our all day excursion in the hudson river valley, what a wonderful […]
posted 11 September 2010
design apprenticeships & the educational experience . . .
design schools in the united states, usually value curriculum structures that place strong emphasis on the individual’s ability to enter the profession immediately upon graduation. at wentworth institute of technology and the university of cincinnati, the schools’ educational models and curricula take internships into account with graduation requirements. in vocations where craftsmanship is of […]
posted 3 September 2010
categories education
urban mobility & bicycles . . .
don’t miss the exhibit, our cities ourselves: the future of transportation in urban life, at the center for architecture, 536 la guardia place, new york, ny 10012. the exhibit will be closing on in about two weeks on wednesday, september 15, 2010.
http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=exhibitions&expid=119
nick foley, who graduated from the industrial design department at pratt this […]
posted 25 August 2010
noam’s therapeutic rehabilitation for furniture, through design
this past spring, noam tabenkin graduated from the department of industrial design at the bezalel academy of arts & design, jerusalem*. in the spring of 2009, we had the good fortune of having noam as an exchange student for the id department at pratt. her studio choice was making meaning and she complimented our group […]
posted 14 August 2010
categories education
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