lighting fires & making meaning’s mid-term critique . . .

“the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting . . .”
on listening, essays by plutarch.

the spring, mid semester preliminary critique for making meaning was held on thursday, march 12th from 6:00 pm until around 9:30 pm . . .
in addition to the seniors […]

abstraction & the graham field project results . . .

“education is a social process; education is growth; education is not
a preparation for life but is life itself.” john dewey
graham field • pratt presentation

jeff kapec (along with sergio silva) emphasized that for this project, our id students utilize abstraction to explore design through physical and visual experience to discoverer ideas that […]

gg has moved from chelsea to new mexico . . .

the third image below is from summer 2008, of tarik currimbhoy with gerald gulotta in gerald’s 26th street studio in chelsea. on february 9th this year, gerald moved to be with his family in santa fe, new mexico. we that have know gerald from many years of living & working in new york, will […]

making meaning: matthew burger / jeffrey kapec, senior studio

here is a small window into of a semester long course called making meaning. making meaning is a senior industrial design studio where the students choose individually selected design briefs and develop them with team-teaching instructors, matthew burger & jeff kapec . . .
class session & preliminary critique, autumn 2007 . . .
jeff kapec, observing […]

id thesis presentation, friday, december 12th 2008:

pratt institute’s industrial design department is proud to announce the master’s thesis presentations with a reception/celebration to follow in the design center gallery:

http://prattidthesis.blogspot.com/

brazzaville tropical house from jean prouvé, in new york

“maisons préfabriqées” a tropical house design by jean prouvé,
in long island city, new york beside the 59th street bridge . . .

in addition, here’s a link you might be interested in from 2007:
a tropical house in new haven connecticut, design by jean prouvé
lastly, a pdf excerpt from robert rubin about jean […]

anthropomorphism & morphology . . .

anthropomorphism: the face inside your head . . .
&
morphology: katrin mueller-russo’s senior studio work, 2006 . . .

an example from preston mc clanahan of a system . . .

the twenty six character system we call the alphabet . . .

a visual interpretation of a non phonic system . . .

letterform experiments from hansjakob fehr, abelardo morell, charles goodwin & grace . . .

here are a few interesting letterform experiments and in addition, if you happen to like charles goodwin’s three dimensional attempt at the word design, i would encourage you to take a look at the pdf file link below about his union square market, graphic space project. charles was in my senior studio, making meaning, graduated […]

the life of design educator extraordinaire, dan november . . .

in memoriam: daniel november, an iron man with a heart of gold . . .
pratt alumnus (a.a.s. 1963, b.id 1972) and full time professor in the department of industrial design, who had taught at pratt since 1986 died this autumn at the age of 75. a design educator extraordinaire, he was formerly with george […]