General Mills Packaging Design Studio

Oct 26 2011

Fac­ulty: Patrick Fen­ton, Willy Schwen­zfeier, and Noah King

Gen­eral Mills Pack­ag­ing Design Stu­dio: Stu­dents researched and devel­oped con­ve­nient cereal pack­ages for Club Stores.  Stu­dents inves­ti­gated all aspects of the cereal box: what it has been and what it could be, as an oppor­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with pro­fes­sors and class­mates, draw­ing upon the strengths to con­tribute to…READ MORE...

42nd Street Grand Central Partnership

Oct 26 2011

Faculty: Matthew Burger and Jeff Kapec

In a project for the senior studio, Making Meaning Joe Kent and Sally Ann Corn created a project called Street Eats.  This was an extensive research/3D project that involved redesigning the NY street food cart, which led to a ‘real world’ project of redesigning a fleet of mobile information carts for…READ MORE...

Copenhagen’s Danish Institute for Study Abroad

Jul 26 2011

Pratt Indus­trial Design stu­dents have the option to enroll in an inten­sive sum­mer course, in either tex­tile or fur­ni­ture design.  They enjoy cutting-edge Scan­di­na­vian design, study­ing with mas­ters in their fields in a cur­ricu­lum that com­bines chal­leng­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary design stu­dio work with inves­ti­ga­tion and analy­sis of con­tem­po­rary Dan­ish soci­ety, pol­i­tics and environment.

Fac­ulty mem­bers that teach…READ MORE...

Santa Maria de Ostuma Farm, Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Feb 26 2011

Pratt IDSA Stu­dent Chap­ter Project with Karen Stone

One of the Pratt IDSA Stu­dent Chapter’s impor­tant objec­tives is to intro­duce stu­dents to ways in which they can become involved and chal­lenged with real world expe­ri­ences and appli­ca­tions. This year our IDSA Stu­dent…READ MORE...

Biomimicry: Design and Nature in Belize

Jan 26 2011

With Rebecca Welz

11 of us from Pratt Insti­tute left the snow and ice of New York win­ter and trav­eled to Belize over win­ter break to snorkel the reef and to work with biol­o­gists, com­bin­ing first hand obser­va­tion of sea life with lec­tures on man­groves, sea grasses, and coral and fish species.

Pratt+Paper & Ralph Pucci

Dec 26 2010

with Josh Longo

 “Pratt+Paper & Ralph Pucci” rep­re­sents the cul­mi­na­tion of a semester-long study in tex­ture, sur­face, and form by stu­dents from Pratt Institute’s School of Art and Design. Work­ing with inter­na­tion­ally renowned designer Ralph Pucci, the forty-eight fash­ion design, indus­trial design, inte­rior design, and fine art…READ MORE...

Simon Pearce Exhibit Retail Design Project

Oct 26 2010

with Fred Blumlein

In the fall of 2010, the ID grad­u­ate stu­dents who attended the exhi­bi­tion design class con­ducted by Pro­fes­sor Fred Blum­lein were given the assign­ment to design new retail envi­ron­men­tal con­cepts and prod­ucts for Simon Pearce, a glass and ceram­ics man­u­fac­turer…READ MORE...

Cappellini and ICFF Furniture Exhibition

Oct 26 2010

In the 2010/2011 school year, Pro­fes­sor Mark Goetz coor­di­nated a col­lab­o­ra­tion between stu­dents from his Grad­u­ate Fur­ni­ture Stu­dio and Tim Richartz’s Senior Fur­ni­ture Stu­dio with world renowned fur­ni­ture com­pany Cap­pellini. Stu­dents were encour­aged to for­mu­late their own unique vision of the future and then chal­lenged…READ MORE...