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 […]

2008 •’09 legends: britt kapec, ian collings & kyle solá . . .

once again this year, michael hambouz, director of special events, worked with the department of industrial design and our id students to develop a unique legends award for this year’s recipients (patti smith, marc jacobs & david rockwell). in 2008, britt kapec and ian collings worked with our faculty and michael to designed the legends […]

making meaning’s critique results . . .

here are a few examples of design briefs and images from our making meaning preliminary critique, on tuesday, october 27th from 6:00pm until 9:30 pm. among our distinguished guests, we were honored to be joined by our new dean of the school of art & design, concetta stewart, phd., as well as id faculty members […]

an open invitation to the preliminary critique for making meaning . . .

an open invitation to the preliminary critique for making meaning . . .
this is an invitation from our 17 id students, jeff kapec & yours truly for you to join us next tuesday, october 27th, 2009 at 5:30 pm in pratt studios, rooms 42 & 43, for our preliminary critique for making meaning . […]

bauhaus 90: vom labor zum projekt . . .

the venue “from laboratory to project” (from october 15th until november 29th, 2009) is a symposium & an exhibit of the design department, bauhaus university weimar. it is part of this year’s celebration of the 90th anniversary of the bauhaus.
dear professor dr. siegfried gronert & thomas von taschitzki m.a.,
the department of industrial design at […]