Brooklyn-based Pratt seems to be the school of choice for New York designers, and is currently producing some of the most cutting-edge industrial design in the country, when it comes to new technology and environmental sustainability. According to Design Intelligence (DI), a monthly architecture and design journal, Pratt’s Industrial Design Department is number two in the country – outranked only by California’s Art Center College of Design.
Whether or not you put any stock in school rankings, Pratt is clearly doing something right. At every big design show I’ve been to in the past couple months, Pratt students have been exhibiting and garnering accolades for their inspired designs. Here is some of the best Pratt student work I have seen over the course of NYC Design Week:
Patrick Fricke’s organic, modular Bamboo Room Divider:
Ana Linares eco-friendly Plur Stool
Annie Lenon’s adorably functional Teacups
Mark Grattan’s fabulous Shelf / Vase
For more information on any of this work, please email the designers directly.
Could somebody explain to me how the teacup handle thingies are supposed to be used? All I think about is using them on a sailboat with ropes somehow
Hi Alex-
I played with these cups at ICFF, and while I didn’t actually drink tea out of them – I’m assuming the teacupt handles are designed to do two things: 1. They give your fingers something to wrap around when you pick up the cup, 2. You can wrap your teabag around the handles so it doesn’t fall in the cup.
Annie Lenon, feel free to comment /correct me if I am wrong…
Those teacups are awesome. That is such a novel idea. I’m not particularly mad at that shelf either.
Love the dividers – so simple and effective
The teacup idea is cute, but I’d still like a normal handle.
Also, ANOTHER shelf with a vase? Are people buying these things? (Please see my comment on the last vase in a shelf post)
congratulations, ana. your stool “rocks” my behind.
[...] Inhabitat came away from this year’s BKLYN Designs raving about the originality at the Pratt students’ exhibition booth. While all the designs were impressive, the one that really stood out in our minds was Ana Linares‘ Plur Stool. Emerging from gestural drawings and an interest in using sustainable materials, the rocking stool’s gentle flowing lines combine beautifully with the unfinished look of the materials, making it look a little like a giant puzzle piece. For double utility, the lower curve also functions as a magazine rack. [...]
[...] Proving again that Pratt where it’s at, Chul Min Kang and Sung Hun Lim have come up with an ingenious modular power strip called the E-Rope. This twistable device enables users to add or subtract sockets as needed, and can accommodate large, bulky cords in the way that ordinary power strips can’t. The best part is that you can shut off the flow of power to any cable simply by twisting the socket section 90 degrees. Brilliant! And cute. Businessweek apparently agrees, as the E-Rope just won a 2006 IDEA award for student design. [...]
I love the shelf /vase by Mark Grattan. Its genius . where can I get one.
hi,,i wanted you give me your information
iam surppris the teacape how can they hang on catchin or any where else…
the grattan cross section shelf vase is brilliant. where can i order one?