Pratt Industrial Design: A History in Words and Pictures

Curi­ous about the roots of Pratt Institute’s Indus­trial Design pro­gram? Check out an in-depth his­tory of the pro­gram, cre­ated in 1974: Pratt Insti­tute Indus­trial Design: A His­tory in Words Pratt Insti­tute Indus­trial Design: A His­tory in Images

Pratt Grads visit Motorola

  Pratt’s first-year grad­u­ate MID stu­dents vis­ited Motorola as part of their Indus­trial Design Tech­nolo­gies course.

Pratt Students dine with Massimo Vignelli

These Pratt indus­trial design stu­dents get a spe­cial treat — shar­ing a meal with design­ers Bruce Han­nah and Mas­simo Vignelli.  

Graham Hill and Peter Gerber visit Pratt

Peter Ger­ber Gra­ham Hill   Gra­ham Hill — the founder of Tree­hug­ger and TED talker, along with Jovoto strate­gist Peter Ger­ber, came to Pratt on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 13 to speak with Deb John­son (Direc­tor of Pratt’s Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able Design Stud­ies) and the Indus­trial Design grad­u­ate stu­dents about inno­va­tion, col­lab­o­ra­tion, sus­tain­able design, and all man­ner of …

Tumi Design Director and Pratt alum Victor Sanz visits i.d. department

Novem­ber 29, 2011 Our depart­ment was for­tu­nate enough to wel­come Pratt Grad­u­ate ID alum Vic­tor Sanz of Tumi to give a lec­ture and take a lucky group of stu­dents out to din­ner after­wards. He gave an inspir­ing show­case of his work and career, and advised stu­dents to use school as an oppor­tu­nity to work as hard …

Antenna Design visits Pratt

Masamichi Uda­gawa and Sigi Moes­linger of Antenna Design came to give a lec­ture at Pratt’s indus­trial design depart­ment. Photo Cred­its: I Chao Wang    

Makerbot and Minolta Help Celebrate Pratt’s 125th

The GROW_125 event was a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Pratt indus­trial design stu­dents, Maker­Bot Indus­tries and Kon­ica Minolta. The goal of the event was to mark Pratt’s 125th anniver­sary by cre­at­ing three-dimensional forms inspired by Pratt and the num­ber 125. Sec­ond year indus­trial design stu­dents have been chal­lenged by pro­fes­sor Scott Van­der­Voort to design and print three-dimensional …

Cappellini and I.C.F.F. Furniture Exhibition 2011

Pic­tures are up from the ICFF/Cappellini 2011 shows. Click here to see the rest of them! Pho­tos copy­right I Chao Wang          

Antenna Design visits Pratt

In Novem­ber we had the plea­sure of host­ing a Q&A with Masamichi Uda­gawa and Zigi Moes­linger of Antenna Design. The talk was arranged by our team of IDSA stu­dents and mod­er­ated by our esteemed pro­fes­sor, Bruce Han­nah. The event was widely attended by our stu­dent body and much was learned about Antenna’s phi­los­o­phy and design …

FindingMyVoice@Pratt 2012 Final Show

 Tanya Van Cott, Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor, Cre­ator & Host  of the cam­pus wide exper­i­men­tal Open Mic pro­gram, FindingMyVoice@Pratt in coop­er­a­tion with Steve Diskin, Chair of Indus­trial Design Invite you to come out, join the fun, and sup­port Indus­trial Design’s con­tin­ued effort to unite the cam­pus through inter­dis­ci­pli­nary design At this year’s LAST event Thurs­day APRIL 5th, 8pm-9:30 …

City Vibration — Moholy-Nagy inspired design workshop

Prof. Mar­ion Digel,  Jan. 13th 2012 City Vibra­tion – an “Exper­i­ment of Total­ity” (click to view more infor­ma­tion at folkwangid.com) Based on the ideas and ele­men­tary prin­ci­ples of Moholy-Nagy. Design Work­shop / The­ory and Prac­tice Jan. 9th – Jan. 13th Artist, designer and edu­ca­tor Lás­zló Moholy-Nagy, devel­oped design prin­ci­ples and didac­tics for mul­ti­me­dia time-based design which today …

People and Things: Graduate Thesis Presentations

Please join the Indus­trial Design Depart­ment in attend­ing the­sis pre­sen­ta­tions and exhi­bi­tion show­cas­ing new, emerg­ing work by Grad­u­at­ing Indus­trial Design stu­dents from the class of 2012. “We seek to move past tra­di­tional prod­uct ori­ented prob­lem solv­ing to explore the under­ly­ing rela­tion­ships between peo­ple and the designed world they inhabit. In response to the chang­ing land­scape of …

Conversation » The Future of Housing

by Diana Bud­dsIs bio­log­i­cally based archi­tec­ture the next big thing? Archi­tect Mitchell Joachim thinks so. He prof­fers rad­i­cal ways to rethink the sci­ence of structures.

Selected Data Visualization Tools

The fine folks of data visualization.ch put together a selec­tion of data visu­al­iza­tion tools that they use the most and that they enjoy work­ing with. It includes libraries for plot­ting data on maps, frame­works for cre­at­ing charts, graphs and dia­grams and tools to sim­plify the han­dling of data. Even if you’re not into pro­gram­ming, you’ll …

12 year old explains national debt

In this video, 12-year old Vic­to­ria Grant explains why her home­land, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt.
(via explore)

Daeyang Gallery and House by Steven Holl Architects

Slideshow: New York archi­tect Steven Holl has con­cealed a under­ground gallery beneath a pool of water in Seoul, the city in South Korea that we’ve been focus­ing on fol­low­ing a string of pro­pos­als for?…

A tetralogy of dust — An art report from Novara by Gabi Scardi

Gian Maria Tosatti’s inter­ven­tion at Casa Bossi accen­tu­ates the remains of this aban­doned build­ing, trans­form­ing it into an inner space of mem­ory, and turn­ing vis­i­tors into witnesses.

Dezeen archive: South Korea

 
Dezeen archive: this week on Dezeen we’ve fea­tured a series of sto­ries on sky­scrap­ers in the Yongsan Inter­na­tional Busi­ness dis­trict in Seoul, so now we’ve grouped together all our sto­ries about South Korea. See all t…

Core77 Photo Gallery: Frieze Art Fair New York 2012

Pho­tog­ra­phy for Core77 by Nicole Lenzen

For its New York debut, the Frieze Art Fair was held on Randall’s Island Park, in an expan­sive 225,000 sf. tented struc­ture custom-designed by Brook­lyn archi­tec­ture firm Solid Objec­tives — Iden­burg Liu (SO…

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in close vicin­ity to port phillip bay, the build­ing is care­fully inte­grated into are inter­preted beach con­text to sup­port bird migra­tory pat­terns within
the encom­pass­ing wet­lands and del­i­cate eco­log­i­cal areas.read more

Top Tours of the Week May 14 — 18, 2012

• House Tour: Leslie’s Mid Cen­tury Opti­mism• House Tour: Cherry & Jeff Cre­ate a Home in Hong Kong• House Call: Sarah’s Pro Style at Home• House Tour: Suzann’s Lovely Lon­don Maisonette• House Tour: Shayne, Andrew &…

& White Cement Tile @ Intelligentisia The TileVault>">Blue & White Cement Tile @ Intelligentisia The TileVault>

What: Blue & White FEZ Cement tile­Source: Granada Tile Where: Intel­li­gentsia Cof­fee, Sil­ver­lake, LAWhy: This has got to be one of the most stun­ning uses of tile we’ve ever seen. It totally trans­forms the space and gives a cheery, almost otherworldy …