icff 2009 • design for a dollar’s after life . . .

pratt id’s design for a dollar, concept brief: icff may 2009
please see the link below for an example of pratt institute’s department of industrial design, design for a dollar exhibit “after life” from the international contemporary furniture fair / icff, from may 16th through the 19th, 2009 found in the september ’09 issue of […]

hand held products . . .

two examples of hand held products by former wentworth institute of technology, industrial design students: peter swai & rei sohji . . . both designs have a special quality that is hard to achieve without an enormous amount of attention to the tactile (haptic) character of these objects as they relate to the human hand.

hands, objects & human factors . . .

handles & hands, one / two handedness:
handle it . . .

handles & hands, one / two handedness:
handle it . . .

kalmar & linnæus university (swedish: linnéuniversitetet)

this spring per lundberg from the international offices of kalmar & växjö university came to visit pratt’s industrial design department / international affairs office on may 14th, 2009 for an update on how the id’s programs newest exchange program is doing & to let us know that, as of january 2010, kalmar/växjö university will (be […]

good domestic products & robert langhorn’s id seniors . . .

on wednesday, may 6th, the id seniors in robert langhorn’s studio exhibited their final projects for gdp | good domestic products | the opening started at 6:00pm, at 124 washington avenue, brooklyn and went until late into the evening . . .
g.d.p. & industrial design at pratt, part one
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lucia de respinis’ adventures with id student . . .

lucia & elizabeth pavese at the rrk award ceremony,
at knoll, in january 2008 . . .

the work below, from lucia de respinis’ junior studio class, helped anna sfinarolakis win a fifteen thousand dollar windgate fellowship. anna used the fellowship money, in part, for a three month artist in residency at the european ceramic center […]

longoland at pratt: josh’s work & the work of his students . . .

josh longo is interested in story telling, developing characters and among other things, explorations with soft materials in his own work, as well as the work of his pratt industrial design students. last spring was the first time josh was teaching three dimensional abstraction in the industrial design department and he has approached this possibility […]

bauhaus 90: april in weimar, part two . . .

das bauhaus kommt . . .

pratt id faculty & student experiences in weimar . . .

(das bauhaus kommt) as well as pratt id students &
professor lenny bacich comes to the bauhaus . . .

laura strasser, (former bauhaus exchange student at pratt) along with sven müller (not pictured here) are assisting lenny bacich during his semester as a guest professor at the bauhaus . . . jack foley, alvaro […]

bauhaus 90: tomás maldonado reflects on ulm . . .

performance piece: “die mechanische bauhausbühne”,
theater of sound, düsseldorf, germany

a ceremonial act commemorating the 90th anniversary of the beginning of
the bauhaus, april 1st, 2009. the honorary public lecture was given by
professor tomás maldonado, from mailand, italy . . .
tomás maldonado, in the publication ulm 8/9, september 1963:
“ist das bauhaus aktuell?”

designboom, february 24, 2009: […]