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Friday, April 28th from 9am to 4pmPratt Institte - Brooklyn Campus200 Willoughby AvenuePratt Studios, Room 43Featuring the following Masters candidates...Jason Ammerman makes "the compleat angler" more completeNoah Bowers drinks the airRodrigo Olea Cosignani jumps through fire and smokeVictoria Haroian brings the past into the futureValerie Haynal rethinks design for agingBethany Martin takes on

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By Jason AmmermanThis study identifies, through historical research and interviewing methods, the major motivations for recreational fishing and their relation to documentation. It develops a contemporary interpretation of a documentation product that addresses these motivational factors.Want to know more? Email Jason.

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By Noah BowersDrinking the Air mimics the sun-powered process of evaporation and condensation that converts seawater to freshwater, in the form of rain. The thesis explores the many ways in which it is possible to exploit naturally occurring temperature differentials, and adapt to changes in prevailing winds, in order to provide inexpensive potable water to parched coastal tropical regions. The

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By Valerie HaynalAt the outset of my thesis, my interest was in infusing dignity into disability products for the elderly; over time I became aware of what a narrow view of aging this assumed. Indeed most designers tend to treat "Design for aging" as synonymous with "Design for Disability". Given the projected growth of an already large cohort of healthy elderly in our society, it is becoming

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By Bethany MartinA cultural obsession with speed, driven by the modern marketplace, has us producing and consuming at an ever increasing rate. As the pace of our daily lives accelerates with the speed of our technologies, we are moving too fast to engage in the more subtle experiences of time. Upon beginning this project, one of the first questions I asked was: “what is the world in which I want

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By Heidi NewellMy thesis, titled Out of Bounds, Venturing Design Dialectics for the Intrepid Among Us, is about a design search for enlightened combinations of hardware and clothing for ski mountaineers. Sparked by the tragic ski accident of Pratt professor Brent Porter’s daughter Christina, my thesis illuminates ski mountaineering as a timeless discipline on the cusp of a popular revolution, and

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By Iku OhashiThe field of industrial design was founded on the principles of scale. Industrial designers find themselves in a completely unique context: designing within the "economies" of scale.This thesis seeks a deeper understanding within ID by exploring the broad spectrum of scale, and scalability outside the industry. This expanded body of knowledge is a powerful tool to the product

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By Rodrigo Olea CosignaniHumans have always watched fire with fascination. Throughout history, humankind has used it as a tool and a symbol of power; only recently have we begun to understand its role in nature. The continuous depredation of the biosphere has taken us to the point where humanity cannot risk loosing any more forest acreage. Of the many forest-fire combative initiatives in recent

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By Ainslie PearsallHumans’ ability to lie comes second nature. It is reflected in our consumer culture, where dishonesty and deception have become commonplace. My thesis takes you on a tour of deceptive products from little white lies like push-up bras and wood laminates, generally considered benign, to more harmful acts of deceit, such as counterfeit goods, defective parts and products made with

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By Victoria PetittLife with a newborn baby is far from easy, and many women struggle with the transition into motherhood. The demands of modern life have exacerbated this already difficult transition, and most new mothers report feeling overburdened by an unmanageable number of expectations and responsibilities. Meanwhile, the embedded cultural mythology of "the Supermom" leaves little margin for

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By Gabriel RueggLocomotives look powerful. Hello Kitty is cute. No culture's members frown when they are happy or slouch when excited. Research suggests all humans share a common core of ability to perceive and interpret form. Artists use this common language—what T.S. Eliot called "objective correlatives"—to communicate feelings and ideas: music in minor keys sounds sad, and bounding dancers

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By Mesve VardarIt has been a little over a century since the famous flight of the Wright Brothers in 1903; in this time air travel has gone from being a luxurious experience reserved for an elite group to a means of mass transportation.The adventure and romance associated with air travel in the previous decades are far from today’s reality. Today air travel is generally associated with cramped

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Greetings from Brooklyn! Herein, you will discover final projects from the Masters Industrial Design candidates of Pratt Institute, Fall 2005. From diverse backgrounds, we are a group of eclectic designers working and living in New York. Representing a cross section of culture, we explore topics ranging from light and motion to artificial joints and virtual communication.The work represented

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The Altruistic Imperative. Changing the Design Process, Changing DesignIn 1964, 22 visual communicators developed the ‘First Things First’ Manifesto, a framework that admitted to contributing to a field where the majority of output was trite and meaningless. The manifesto called for a field of worthwhile social endeavors. My thesis work is an investigation into the current state of Industrial

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OPEN WIDE: The Effect of Cultural Mythology on the American Appetite“Show me what you eat and I’ll show you who you are.”-Brillat-SavarinFood. Our foundation. Nutritionally and historically, food is the primal medium of cultural exchange and growth. Societies develop based on stories, “mythologies,” passed around a table from generation to generation. Over time, these stories become tradition,

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Product Sound Design: How Animation Leads the WayIn recent years, products from companies such as Philips and Renault have shown the potential for sound in product design. But where does an aspiring product sound designer go to learn the tricks of this new trade? One of the best places to look may be Saturday morning cartoons. While the animation industry may seem far removed from the world

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Investigating the Future of the American Heirloom:From the Industrial Revolution to the PresentAs the technology advances and products are being mass produced so easily, the life of a product is getting shorter and people are more willing to part with their belongings for a “better” one. People are less likely to hold onto their family heirlooms if they have any. This has led me to question if

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PRODUCT VOODOO: An Exploration of the Extra-Rational Life of Objects"Product Voodoo" refers to the fact that people, at some level, expect certain objects in their lives to help them in some way, much as a "voodoo doll" might. This paper examines the many scenarios in which people treat objects or artifacts in their lives as more than simply utilitarian, material objects; examples include

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Sustaining LightElectric light is a tool we use every day as well as a poetic medium with lyrical associations. Its evocative qualities can delight, quiet, soothe, enliven. Light permeates our environments, but nowhere as profoundly as in our most intimate spaces: at home. An essential part of living well, lighting is often overlooked as fundamental to effective settings and establishing a

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DESIGNING MOVEMENT: An Aesthetic Investigation of Motion in Product DesignThrough this thesis project, I sought to add beauty and interest to products by investigating the ways in which movement can be designed. While product designers have several techniques and tools at their disposal to improve the appearance of things, when it comes to how an object moves through space, designers are

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A New Vision for product design through visual perception:“The third eye in my mind” As time progresses, the standard of beauty has slightly changed. A simple form is a symbol that has strong recognition and appeal to customers. We have millions of products that come out of the market every day. In this environment, it is a requirement to make a product that is easily remembered and unique. The

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Design with Respect: An Innovation Process to Benefit People, the Planet, and ProfitsHumans and nature are no longer in equilibrium with each other. We are living a life that harms rather than furthers life. Once we understand that we are in the midst of a crisis that seems to be getting worse, if we do not change what we are doing, than we are only hurting ourselves more. We must make a change

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Brave New World: Design for the Homosexual CommunityThe last decades of the 20th century witnessed the growth of the idea that there exists a Queer market. Purveyors of products and services have worked to identify and court this market. Activists and cultural critics have studied the effects of these attempts. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or Queer people, some more than others, have

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Meet me at the letters. A study of the notion of “knowing a place” and “addition to a space”.“Things used to be better, because there were no solutions and therefore no problems”. Marcel DuchampThis exploration is about implementing the quality and productivity of the lives of

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MINDFUL MOBILITY: Rehabilitation Products For A New Generation of Multiple Sclerosis.This thesis explores the disconnect between the knowledge for rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis patients and the need for rehabilitation in order to ease the daily living of a progressively degenerative disease. Through these explorations, mindful mobility becomes the basis for a series of investigations that

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