Emergency
Senior Design Studio. Industrial Design. Undergraduate
Pratt Institute | Fall 2018
This Senior Studio explores design opportunities in the area of emergency while trying to learn the functional efficiency in this type of products that can be used in other fields, for other purposes.
GID Seminar
Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute
A course within the Global Innovation Design GID program in collaboration with RCA in London and Keio University in Tokio. A design studio dedicated to the three-dimensional aspects of design, with themes from the local. It has been taught together with Prof. Katrin Mueller-Russo and Matte Nyberg.
© Dick Rennings 
© Dick Rennings 
© Dick Rennings 
Design for People with Parkinson
by Paul Gulla
Thesis. Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute | Spring 2018
A Pill Case combined with an Exercise Product and a Walking Cane are products developed directly with people with Parkinson disease.
Special Project | Cuba
Undergraduate and Graduate
Pratt Institute | Spring 2018 – 2017 – 2016
Designing with Limited Resources is the name of this course in its 3rd edition in a collaborative project between the Higher Institute of Design – ISDI in Havana and Pratt Institute. The idea of this workshop has been the exploration of design strategies that arise from the tension between scarcity and abundance.
Sophomore Design Studio
Undergraduate
Pratt Institute | Spring 2017
Powerful experience teaching for the first time in the lower levels of the curriculum. Running a few design exercise to explore form language, time, production methods and storytelling. Students: Abby Klein, Siguang Ma, Ava Chun
Aging + Design + Technology
Junior Design Studio. Undergraduate
Pratt Institute | Fall 2016
This course in collaboration with Prof. Karol Murlak sought to explore some everyday situations with older people and their interaction with household products.
Design + Technology
Junior Design Studio. Undergraduate
Pratt Institute | Spring 2015
Design of a Chess as an exercise to explore materials, production methods in different product scenarios. Students: Selin Sonmez, Kerchuan Soong, Isabella Artale
Pattern Recognition
by Alexander Smith
Thesis. Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute | Spring 2014
Research that explores the structure Patterns of formal language and its use as a cognitive tool in the design process.
Calming Distractions
by Sunnie Hwang
Thesis. Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute | Fall 2014
Calming Distractions is a designer’s approach to anxiety. A Thesis that explores scenarios of anxiety in people from a simple and daily ‘tics’ to disorder.
Consider This
by Anthony Villanacci
Thesis. Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute | Spring 2013
In a culture dominated by efficiency, we overlook how slow and more experiential qualities physical world. This glass kettle is part of a series of products designed to provide an opportunity to participate in a rich and layered experience based on gestures.
Cook’s Dance
by Tom Bonamici
Thesis. Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute | Spring 2013
Ladder Lizards
by Jacob Turetsky
Senior Design Studio. Undergraduate
Pratt Institute | Fall 2012
Accessories for Ladder Safety. Market analysis shows there are opportunities for accessories for frequent DIY’ers to mid-level professionals who require functional but attractive solutions to safety concerns.
Advance Syringe
by Masamune Kaji
Senior Design Studio. Undergraduate
Pratt Institute | Fall 2012
Pre-filled syringe models BS-001 and LP-001 for vaccination can be capped by one hand, diminishing the risk of the contact with the needle. An exhaustive exploration on hand gestures.
Zebra Competition, 2012
In 2012, and then in 2013, I coordinated the groups of students who participated in the international design competition sponsored by the Japanese company Zebra. Pratt Institute was invited to participate in this contest in a short list among design schools around the world. In both editions, Pratt students arrived at the last stage. David Krawczyk and Alma Vander Molen.
Design in Prodiseño, 1995 – 2010
The focus in our classes and Design Studios in Venezuela were mainly in three directions: product design and development of objects, understanding nature to design systems and designing interfaces using our knowledge in the real world and human gestures to approach digital environments.
Caracas, Venezuela.
