anthropomorphism & morphology . . .

anthropomorphism: the face inside your head . . .
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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 […]

one million man hours, injury free . . .

this autumn, on friday, october 3rd, ines and i got together with the entire crew of pratt industrial design technicians on myrtle avenue to share food, drink and conversation . . . pictured from left to right: gary, seth, yours truly, julia, brendan and john . . . among other things, we talked about how […]

twentieth century pictograms, hieroglyphs & hans rudolf lutz

hans-rudolf lutz was born in zurich in 1939.
after completing a four-year typesetting apprenticeship with the orell füssli printing company in zurich, and continuing a career in the industry with the typographer arthur kümin and later the printer anton schöb, he left switzerland in 1961 to travel through europe and north africa. in 1963, he […]

type studies . . . from heinz hiltbrunner’s students in basel

more about heinz hiltbrunner: résumé hiltbrunner auf deutsch

action drawing & instruction . . .

kyla & action drawing . . . action instruction . . . ajay, bill, david, david, matthew & sam

an everyday utilitarian object, the swiss army knife . . .

some of my own exploration of an everyday utilitarian object, namely the swiss army knife in basel switzerland (hochschule für kunst & gestaltung) came full circle a few years later, when i worked with nick weinberg in boston (at wentworth institute of technology, the industrial design program) on a directed studies project to design a […]

visual narrative by keen gat, à la pratt id (& edward tufte)

keen gat’s visual interpretation of her first semester in graduate school at pratt, in a temporal sense . . . that was the beginning & here is a link to the culmination & new beginning:

http://prattidthesis.blogspot.com/2008/03/keen-gat.html
one example from edward tufte’s work:
essay: the cognitive style of powerpoint
16 edward tufte prints; images from the […]