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 […]

brooklyn & berlin: pratt id & university of the arts, berlin collaborate . . .

design as dialogues at pratt . . .

on september 25th, i had a design as dialogue talk about pratt institute’s industrial design department, future tense, namely our new sophomores class. . . we did this during their studio session on friday with their instructors for sophomore studio: jeanne pfordresher, jonathan thayer, patrick fenton, scott lundberg & willy schwenzfeier. i think we all […]

family in the kingdon of crystal, sweden . . .

family: celebrating character & unity in högskolan i kalmar, pukeberg, sweden by kyle solá. kyle, who is currently one of my id seniors in my studio class, making meaning, recently returned from an exchange semester abroad in sweden in the region they call, “the kingdon of crystal” . . . please take a look at […]

swedish excellence: design s exhibit . . .

http://www.swedishdesignaward.se/page/221
please see below link from newsweek regarding the swedish design award at pratt:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215169

http://www.carmamail.com/mail/OBS?muid=1WBtqe284018470
on thursday, june 18th, the department of industrial design at pratt, in conjunction with consulate general of sweden in new york & the director of exhibitions at pratt, hosted an opening reception & panel discussion for design s: […]