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Design Triennial – And More – in NYC Design mavens in New York, or visiting New York, have much to look forward to this spring and summer season. At the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a Triennial featuring some 250 works created in the past three years by 63 relatively young designers, will be on display until August 21st. The show’s say, function or feasibility, much less social or environmental the Design Into Art
Noguchi Museum in Long A Japanese Constellation on view at MOMA Studio Museum in Harlem featuring 20 works from L.A.-based African American artist Rodney McMillian. FULL STORY ON PAGE 3…
Textile Report: Spring 2016 Introductions Spring is a time for change, and no area of contract furnishinspired this spring by new introductions from a few of the be designed, crafted and formed into imaginative, yet rational collections. FULL STORY ON PAGE 12…
2016 Pratt Career Night at Haworth NYC Showroom Each year is great, but this year’s Pratt Career Night was watching the young creative individuals interact with senior CITED: “THE PRICE GOOD MEN PAY FOR INDIFFERENCE TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS IS TO BE RULED BY EVIL MEN.” —PLATO
Carey thinking a new generation gap is coming, and it may be bigger than the one in the 60s and 70s. Enjoy the ride; this is an interesting time to be in design! FULL STORY ON PAGE 20…
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2016 Pratt Career Night at Haworth NYC Showroom by Peter Carey Historically, the New York design community is very interprogress, both creatively and socially. Part of that reciprocal relationship may be because we know we can learn from one another. But more practically, especially in today’s young design professionals to meet deadlines and generate income. on us during our early days. As I was heading to the 2016 Pratt Career Night at the New York Haworth showroom, it occurred to me that for the graduating class at Pratt, this night has the potential to change a young designer’s life. “Back in 2004,” said Jon Otis, professor at Pratt Institute and owner of Object Agency other Pratt career night and proposed that we do something
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events special for interior design students. designers started with us 13 years ago and continue to participate each year.” (EDI) is a two-semester immersion into is an alternative to traditional thesis work. Students spend the fall semester and work in teams to create a range of studio projects. In the spring, they work with clients on actual projects and are challenged as professionals concept to design to fabrication to installation. elegant Haworth space, with views on to Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal, our host Diane Barnes with the Haworth Collection carefully carved out 12 discrete meeting areas in which Gensler, Studios, Rockwell Group, HOK, Mancini Duffy, Perkins Eastman and many more could meet and interact with some of the brightest new design may call it “professional speed dating,” but in talking with the students at the event, it felt like more of a real-time,
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events students were soaking up the entire for the match of a lifetime. “At this point in my career, I know very well that interior design is what I want to do, but I also know that things are not going to be as imaginary as they were in school,” said Margarita Boumi, class of 2016 at Pratt. “Factors like collaboration, working with people that you may not like but must deal with and constraining project budgets are an inevitable reality. A lot of the
things we create at school are imaginary, and the teachers are pushing us things are harder to realize in real life.” Some professionals on the design interviews were Pratt alumni. Matthew Goodrich AvroKO made some remarks to students before the event began in earnest. “All of you are at a moment right now that I remember as being terrify-
three years. After graduation, I had no
that when I was going to school, the emphasis was more on the individual than on group collaboration. Pratt has very clearly emphasized collaboration in its curriculum. along the way, but when I look back, what I have seen is that every time I felt like I wasn’t learning or that I needed to grow, I paid attention to that feeling
Richard Bliss and Mitchell Ross of Ted Moudis Associates
Wrapped in Strings, a project by Pratt student Margarita Boumi. The interior space contrasts the softness of the retail garments in the space with a rough, industrial look.
A Lower Manhattan community center, designed by Pratt student Margarita Boumi
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events and looked for a new opportunity,” much of yourself as possible. There are a lot of talented students and great portfolios, but when I am meeting people and trying to decide if a person wants to work and collaborate with me, I want to know who they are as people. I want to know what motivates people and gives them passion for design.” Indeed, this generation of designers has a different set of priorities for both life and career. “One of my big fears is being stuck behind a computer all day,” said Vicky Mo, Pratt Class of 2016. “Sometimes when we are working on our projects now, we will be working anywhere from 12 to 24 hours at a time. I enjoy jumping from model making to working on the computer and then prototyping; there needs to be a balance between all of that stuff.”
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events for any project she would be working on in the real world, she will probably be delegated only a small part of the design duties. job, I know that each job I get shapes my future.” Danielle Covatta, another soon-tobe Pratt graduate looking for employment, is hoping to hit the ground running this summer and has a clear idea of what she wants to do. “I would rather hold out for something perfect than start a job right “I don’t think I will know that perfect
then I grew to love it; my perception of the job changed a lot over my time there.” has been a memorable one. “Aside from the technical skills, I feel I’ve learned a lot about how to think about design and take in the assignment in order do it my own way. Graduate school teaches you how to think and is not heavy on facts and into a job, I am hoping it will make
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events any kind of job more interesting; we will be able to put our own spin on an assignment that may not have seemed make all the difference.�
Each year is great, but this year’s Pratt Career Night was especially new talent, and watching the young creative individuals interact with senior
designers and principals had me thinking a new generation gap is coming, and it may be bigger than the one in the 60s and 70s. Enjoy the ride; this is an interesting time to be in design.
A light study by Pratt student Danielle Covatta
Liz Moskus-Haworth, Julia Rosenlow-Haworth, Sasha Grishina-HOK, Yelena Morkitsy-HOK, Diane Barnes-Haworth Collection, Lindsey Etterbeek- Haworth