rick goodwin: to pratt id’s assistant chair & cpo of ogosport . . .

remembering the loss of our friend, colleague, mentor and teacher,
richard goodwin, pratt id’s assistant chair, & cpo, chief play officer,
of ogosport, pratt m.id 1997, | 1952-2010 | . . .

memorial for rick goodwin on saturday, april 17th 2010
from 3:00 until 5:00 pm, in pratt’s design gallery:
what are the right […]

play & paper form flirtation . . .

this spring yoon jung heo was in my making meaning, senior design studio. she said she was very interested in seeing what she could do with the ephemeral & slightly neglected traditional material, paper . . . yoon’s exploration of the possibilities with paper immediately makes me think of other wonderful references like, the paper […]

emily pilloton’s design roadshow comes to brooklyn . . .

industrial design chair matthew burger: “everything comes full circle; the avant
garde will eventually become the old guard.” (on progress in design and hearing victor papanek speak about a revolution in industrial design at cooper union in 1978) quote from the road, when: march 22nd, 1:23 p.m., where: lecture hall
at pratt institute in brooklyn, new york

visual narrative about design in 1974 . . .

what was happening in north america in 1974? well, among other things, there were two related events, the u.s. supreme court decision: united states v. nixon, 418 u.u. 683 & u.s. president richard nixon announces his resignation, effective august 9, 1974. there was also the continuation of the 1973 oil crisis into 1974. there […]

pratt • folkwang “take a seat” collaboration in cologne . . .

pratt’s department of industrial design has partnered with the folkwang academy to exhibit chair designs as part of the renowned international furniture and design fair imm cologne in cologne, germany from january 19-24, 2010. it is the first time that pratt will exhibit in this international venue, which is one of the largest and most […]

id graduate thesis exhibit . . .

some excerpts from the id thesis presentations from december 11th 2009:
jennie maneri • collected | advisor: fred blumlein |
over the past ten years i have amassed many idiosyncratic collections. these objects are a narrative for the places i have travelled, my interests, and memories. throughout my home, these collections are displayed on […]

making meaning: response, reaction, reception . . .

“imagination is more important than knowledge. for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
albert einstein, german born american physicist (1879-1955), who received the nobel prize for physics in 1921

in addition, here’s a link to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]