Undergraduate Industrial Design Archives

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Fashion

U.S. News & World Report Runs Feature Story on Wearable Technology Studio at Pratt

U.S. News & World Report has published a significant feature article about the wearable technology studio class taught by Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, adjunct associate professor of industrial design and fashion, and Pratt’s ongoing wearable technology collaboration with NASA. The article, “Designers,…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence Survey Ranks Pratt Design Programs among Best in Nation

Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country, according to America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2016, the newest edition of the annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI),…

School of Design

Target Stops Labeling Toys by Gender

Constantin Boym, Industrial Design chair within the School of Design and founder of the award-winning design studio Boym Partners Inc., gives context around Target’s recent decision to eliminate separate gender-based signs from their toys, home, and entertainment departments. How are…

Architecture

NASA Project Collaboration Inspires Students to Create Habitat for Travel to Mars

In a challenge presented by NASA, Pratt students are being inspired to address design concerns related to space travel. For an interdisciplinary studio class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture Michael Morris and Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design…

School of Design

Industrial Design Professor and Alumnus Bruce Hannah Retires after Four Decades at Pratt

After four decades of service at his alma mater, Industrial Design Professor Bruce Hannah (B.I.D. ’63) has retired from Pratt. His last day was August 31, 2015. “We are deeply grateful to Bruce for his invaluable contribution to the education…

Graduate Industrial Design

Award-Winning Designer Constantin Boym Named Chair of Industrial Design Department

Designer Constantin Boym has been named Industrial Design chair within Pratt Institute’s School of Design. He will assume the role on July 13, 2015, succeeding Scott Lundberg, who has served as interim chair since fall 2014. Boym is founder of…

School of Design

Delbert I. Footer (B.I.D. ’53) Scholarship to Benefit Industrial Design Students

Alumnus Delbert I. Footer (B.I.D. ’53) has made an endowment gift to establish the Delbert I. Footer ’53 Scholarship to help aspiring industrial designers benefit from the Pratt experience as he did. He has made a provision for the scholarship…

Undergraduate Industrial Design

Video: Kai Lin (B.I.D. ’15) Designs Mountain Goat-Inspired Prosthetic for Rock Climbing

Industrial design student Kai Lin (B.I.D. ’15) designed KLIPPA, a prosthetic leg for amputee rock climbers, for Professor of Industrial Design Jonathan Thayer’s Aesthetics of Prosthetics class. Inspired by the exceptional climbing ability of mountain goats, Lin developed a design…

Graduate Industrial Design

Dwell Magazine Profiles Industrial Design Faculty Member and Alumna Lucia DeRespinis

Dwell magazine recently profiled Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design Lucia DeRespinis (B.I.D. ’52) and her distinguished design and teaching career. The story by Kelsey Keith highlights DeRespinis’ education at Pratt—where she was one of three women in the graduating class…