Pratt Institute

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 in Win­sor, Ver­mont. James Mur­ray, Direc­tor of Design at Simon Pearce, was actively involved in the pro­gres­sion of the work. The project involved the design of: prod­uct dis­play fix­tures, bridal reg­istry con­cepts, in-store graph­ics, light­ing fix­tures, tex­tiles, brand iden­tity, pack­ag­ing and collateral-print mate­ri­als. A major focus of this project was to incor­po­rate into these efforts as many sus­tain­able mate­ri­als and prac­tices as pos­si­ble. The result­ing designs have inspired the Simon Pearce Com­pany to incor­po­rate many of the stu­dents’ con­cepts into their upcom­ing retail installations.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing mem­bers of the class were: Kat Coburn, Heidy Garay, Mike Jozewicz, Sushir Kadi­dal, David Kim, Sierra Seip, Mike Seto, Ali­son Uljee, Sarah von der Luft, and Han­jiang Yao.