The Suspension Seating employs multiples of simple parts to make a piece: an extrusion, a side frame, end-cap and bolts, cushion. The elimination of right-handedness and left-handedness was an important consideration from the point of… / leer más
A friend of mine James Murray, Vice President of Design & Creative at Simon Pearce, just returned from working with Georg Jensen, the Danish Designers & Silversmiths. According to James “it’s amazing to see the… / leer más
I found this tool on the floor of and abandoned factory on Crosby Street, NYC, probably in 1968. Along with this tool I found maple logs incased in wax that probably were used for tooling… / leer más
Do something for your soul ………… Design Mysteries Recently I was given a plastic spoon/fork by my daughter Bekah. And began to wonder why we use so many plastic utensils. Is it cleanliness? Is it… / leer más
The form of the Suspension Seating, for Knoll, reflects what we could do, acting directly on the material and the process. What we tried to do was not to impose a style on the object… / leer más
This morning I went searching for a new watering can at Home Depot and since it’s Fall thought I would find a serviceable can to replace the one I had for 15 years, maybe even… / leer más
Toothpick, Rolling Pin, Mallet In one week of travel I collected four wooden tools two in New York City and two in Los Angeles. Each is a wonder of technology and sustainability. The 21 Club… / leer más
The TWA (Trans World Airlines) building at John F Kennedy airport in New York City is constructed from the same material that The Coliseum in Rome is: Concrete. But what a difference in expression the… / leer más
The Westport Chair, otherwise known as the classic Adirondack wood chair, is a good example of what we might call a generic product: a simple, seminal idea realized in a material that it is ideally… / leer más
Harry Bertoia, while designing his classic wire chairs, was interested in exploring the formal expression of sitting on air; of sitting on as little structure as possible. Sitting on air is a design idea, a… / leer más
Earl Tupper, the inventor and designer of Tupperware, broke a few rules of production. Breaking a single ‘rule’ of production can sometimes lead to new formal solutions as seen with Thonet. Tupper did just that… / leer más
The Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton (1803 – 1865), a well-known gardener who was familiar with green house design, to house the great exposition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was one of the… / leer más
«La Asociación Iberoamérica Diseña es la primera asociación de ámbito iberoamericano, constituida por profesionales de 16 de los 22 países iberoamericanos que firman esta Declaración fundacional».
Un proyecto de colaboración con el estudio de diseño Dedo Ciego en Barcelona. 20 productos diseñados en Venezuela, desde 1958 hasta 2020.
Acaba de salir la nueva edición de la revista Proyecta56, an industrial design Journal, editada por la Universidad de Cádiz. Vol. 4 Núm. 1 (2024)
El diseñador e investigador carioca Claudio Magalhães, del Núcleo de Experimentação Tridimensional de la PUC Rio, durante su visita a Pratt en una conversación junto a un grupo de profesores del área de Diseño Tridimensional (3D Methodology).
Peter Benz, Presidente de la Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, junto a su equipo visitando los Talleres de Diseño del Departamento de Diseño Industrial de Pratt Institute.
El proyecto de divulgación, difusión y reflexión sobre el diseño industrial en Venezuela creado en 2011. Cerca de 300 diseñadores en 4 ediciones. Descarga los catálogos en PDF:
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