Pratt News
Designer and Educator Ignacio Urbina Polo
Named Chair of Industrial Design
May, 2022
Industrial designer and educator Ignacio Urbina Polo appointed Chair of the Industrial Design at the School of Design at Pratt Institute. The Institute was founded in 1886 in Brooklyn and the ID department in 1936.
Interview
Let’s humanize “the user”
Jan. 2020
by Fanny Krivoy
Interview for the Project Inclusion series by Studio Analogous in New York City. We invite you to watch the video.
Interview
Papel Literario
Nov. 2019
By Nelson Rivera
An interview about a few aspects of industrial design in Papel Literario, an opinion section in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional.
Caracas, Venezuela
Interview
Divagancias
Jul. 2019
Ignacio Urbina Polo: “Design is a discipline that works for the future,” by Diego Alejandro Torres Pantin. In relation to the Itinerant Exhibition of the Ibero-American Design Biennial bid_ve 2019 at Hacienda La Trinidad Parque Cultural. An exhibition in collaboration with Álvaro Sotillo in museography and Ariel Pintos in graphics. [photos: Natacha Trebucq]
Caracas, Venezuela
Curatorship, Art, and Design (II):
NoMATERIA
Oct. 2018
By Humberto Valdivieso
An article about the NoMATERIA Exhibition opened at the Pratt Institute in April 2018. El Nacional.
Caracas, Venezuela
Jun. 2017
The 2017 WantedDesign Student Workshop. www.core77.com
New York, US
NoMATERIA 2012-2017,
Oct. 2017
NoMATERIA | Build The Future. Industrial Design in Venezuela exhibition. An article in Entre Rayas, an architectural and design magazines, about the online inauguration of the exhibition
Caracas, Venezuela
“The Beauty of the Useful”
Aug. 2015
Interview for the cultural magazine (Revista Dominical) in the Sunday edition of the country’s largest newspaper in the country, El Nacional.
Caracas, Venezuela
Profile
Book: Identidad Venezuela
JUL. 2014
Profile in the book IDENTIDAD Venezuela 1000 Faces, conceived and edited by Venezuelan journalist and audiovisual producer Gil Molina. A comprehensive investigative work that gathers 1000 brief biographies, written as journalistic profiles, narrating the life of each of the portrayed individuals.
Interview
Magazine: Proyecto Diseño
Jul. 2013
The director of the Proyecto Diseño, the most important architecture and design magazine in Latin América based in Colombia interviewed me in 2013 and published the interview with the title “The Dissident”.
Bogotá, Colombia
“NoMATERIA in the MEDI: space where the bits became atoms”
Dec. 2012
Exhibition Review by Sergio Alonso in di-
“Ignacio Urbina: An Innovative Prototype”
Jul. 2011
By Yesly Suárez / Photography: Patrick Dolande. CG Latin Magazine
Caracas, Venezuela.
INTERVIEW
“Design to Live Better”
Oct. 2010
By Sabina Ojeda. Insert ‘Health up Today’. El Nacional Newspaper
Caracas, Venezuela
