Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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|ndustrial Design With the architect’s knowledge of propor- tion and the artist’s keen sense of color and design, the Industrial Designer creates pro- ducts which are both beautiful and function- al. His media include many tools and techni- ques. Drawings and model making naturally play an important part in visualizing his designs. He must know the machines, pro- cesses and materials that can be used in making the design for mass production, the allowable costs that will keep the price low enough so it will be saleable, and the wishes and likes of the people who must give it their approval. To accomplish these ends, the Pratt in- dustrial design student undergoes a rigorous course in design fundamentals under the cap- able leadership of Alexander J. Kostellow, head of the Department, and other practicing professional instructors. In addition to the regular curriculum, the present Senior stu- dents engaged in a bit of extra-curricular activity manifesting itself in a complete re- novation and redesigning of the classrooms, hallways and stairways of the Industrial De- sign Department. Also in this vein, they set up an exhibition demonstrating the procedure and end results of their training through the use of drawings, models, and esthetic experi- ments. This display was given favorable comment in the national trade magazine, “In- teriors.” All was not work amid plaster of paris and spray guns, however. The Pratt industrial designer recalls fondly the day Mr. Kostellow had the distinction of crowning Pratt’s own little “Sno Queen” and the time had at the Christmas party presented by Mr. K. and he remembers, with a tear or two, the sad fact that the class contained but one female of the species. With a rich background of technical and aesthetic principles, the Pratt industrial de- signer enters the field confident of his ability’ to uphold the high standards of the profes- sion. Pratt has trained him, and trained him well, to specialize in the broad field of de- sign as it is applied to the productions of a mechanized civilization.

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Oi ce wk AB John Hovell Anita Hyman Alex Janos James Joanou John Keck ae a A it Irene Lalli Raymond Leininger John Leinung John Lencicki Robert Lietz Dane Love Perry Norris Mark O'Rourke Ada Pasquini Francis Pracilio Burl Quinn Marie Self Robert Spector Laylen Sweet Thomas White Stephen Zonitch and Stanley Kindon

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