ana linares - Modern+Design+Function 2010show

My apologies for the delay; Ana is showing tonight in a juried exhibition at the Design Within Reach Flatiron Studio! See below:

Hello everyone! Ana Linares and Grace E. Chen are very excited to invite you to come by the Design Within Reach Flatiron Studio to see our works, view the best 15 pieces, meet the designers, and enjoy a vodka cocktail!!! PARRTTTYYYYYY!!! WhooHoo~~~~~~ @^______^@

M+D+F 2010 (Modern+Design+Function 2010) is a juried exhibition designed to uncover and promote innovative modern original designs by emerging designers in New York. Organized by the DWR Flatiron Studio, M+D+F provides an opportunity for peer, public and professional recognition for up-and-coming designers and firms.

http://www.dwr.com/
http://analinaresdesign.com
http://www.gracechendesign.com

Congratulations yet again to Ana!!

ana linares - updated

Ana is proud to announce that she is being featured on today's issue of dailycandy.com for a write up on the Duo Bookshelf. Also today in the same article in dailycandy.com, two additional Pratt grads (2007) Liz Kinnmark and Kegan Fisher the talented team behind Design Glut are also featured for one of their signature "Hankies".

Ana also notes that she is currently working for Mark Goetz, Pratt Professor, Graduate furniture design, and furniture designer of the highest regard.

Additionally, Ana will have an exhibit of her work in this years ICFF, in an exhibit titled "Uncomfortable Conversations", which happens also to be organized by Liz Kinnmark of Design Glut. For all of you, great congratulations!

wes cox

Wes Cox (grad 2001) is now on tap here, in Brooklyn, doing some exciting things with his wry and mystical design abilities - He's been put on the job at Brooklyn Motorized www.brooklynmotorized.com - see the site for brief details - as a designer/pm for a "city-friendly electric motorcycle" project.
Wes also has a website of his own, see the links above - and a collaborative blog with his fiance; www.thersic.com which will also be linked below in the blog section.
Wes is an exceptional theorist, a visionary with space and details, and the man you want to execute a drawing of anything (see samples on his site).
I am very glad to have him here!

miron lior - (with call for entries)

And we have Miron Lior (grad 07) who has been busy building a design empire from the year before he graduated with his accomplished and innovative shelf for Umbra, and now a continuation of that line - but I will let him tell you what he's been doing:
"I'm working on so many things at once now. First of all, I am preparing a whole new furniture collection to launch at ICFF'10. Ab 30 pieces. Under name FAKTURA design. None of it is on my portfolio page. There will be another site fakturadesign.com that will feature the collection probably in a month or two. I am sending you images of two pieces from this collection. One magazine table and one console table. BTW, pictures are taken by Luke Escamilla and pieces are fabricated with help of Lenin Hercules. I will not have more images until the photo shoot that will take place in beginning of April.

Also, I launched www.giftofdesign.com online gift store about 6 months ago. The idea is that I will offer at this site my own designs, products of my fellow designers and other products that I like. If you want you can issue a call to others to contact me if they have products that would be a good mach for the site. Store features will designed objects in the price range $20 - $100. The site is just gaining steam and more people need to know about the site for it be where I want it to be. Advertising is very expensive these days and sales are down everywhere, but I have patience. I got a really good response over the Holiday season. I like the site because it is a representation of my taste in design.

I decided to stay in Brooklyn after graduation. I tried working for design firms, but quickly understood that I'm not enjoying office atmosphere and better off designing independently. I produced several pieces that are on sale at VOOS. I took my S -table to an exhibition in Cologne and sold it to a gallery there. I exhibited Z - shelf at ICFF'08.

Conceal shelf is still going strong and after 4 years on sale it is actually selling more every year. It was featured in most design magazines and sold over half a million pieces in my estimation."

Miron, powerhouse of design and innovation. Please contact him regarding his GIFT OF DESIGN SITE above for opps to sell work.

kai williams & david messineo

Kai Williams (grad 2006) joins the IDalum blog! I am very very happy to report that Kai has been extremely active in the design/fabrication business and is the co-owner of a brooklyn based design/fabrication house named, Three Phase Studio LLC.
I have created a link to his site in the alum link section and have here a number of images which correspond to the descriptions he notes here, that I've copied below.

I am very pleased that I am able to post a link to this business and hope that all of you take advantage of Three Phase as a resource for your prototype and design fabrication needs - check out some of this work, and look at Kai's recent history and experience - phenomenal! I expect that Kai will soon explode onto the design scene with a mastery of fabrication tech. tied to his lightning hot sense of adventure, and show us things about our world we never thought possible!!

And from Kai directly:
"After I graduated Pratt I bounced around for a bit eventually getting a job as a freelance model builder for architectural models and then as an intern for 2x4, a graphic design company in the city. After that I became an assistant for Tom Sachs, an artist, eventually becoming his personal assistant. In the spring of '08 I left to start my own shop with David Messineo, a former Pratt student, though not a graduate. We do a combination of wood work and metalwork mostly for artists and architects. Our largest tool is our router which is about 26,000lbs large and allows us to compete with larger shops and really provide some of the longest dimension cnc work in New York."

"Images 6812 and 6813 are some tests for bracelets that I made, most of them out of some scrap HDPE that we got after machining a table for an artist.
6839 and 6842 are two shots of something of which I am really proud. Basically is is a sold walnut rolling rack for a clothing store on the lower east side.
Pictures 4 and 5 are from a airless air hockey set that I made in collaboration with a friend for a show at a store called pavilion in Chicago."

It is a very serious pleasure to post this new alum contact!

kevin mcelroy

Another 08 grad exploding on the local design scene; Kevin McElroy has been developing his steadiness, practicality, and innate talent for shaping simplicity into elegant designs on many levels since he's graduated from Pratt ID. The beauty of the Urbano Wastebasket, the second iteration of Urb Flat, his industrial crating, Medical equipment and the simply romantic "Rocket Toss", a swing on lawn darts for Regent Sports, are just a few examples of this talented designer's flexibility, curiosity, and attention to detail. Please see his website link for all the lovely details, awards, shows, associations, press, and the promise for his future designs. He is also part of the Pratt Design Incubator, where he and Sam Cochran have been working on the fantastic "solar ivy" project which has caused quite a stir in every field of art and design. Of this he noted:
"As for me, I have been freelance consulting a lot and working with the Pratt Design Incubator as well. We recently were part of a discussion panel at the World Usability Day Conference at SVA."
See photo on side-bar.

ana linares

Ana Linares is thriving in the design world and has two new products and has given some info here, again don't forget to see her website link.
Ana says:

By experimenting with different materials Ana Linares created Velora, a pattern that allows laser cut steel to be transformed into a three-flower-shaped form that holds a tealight. Velora can be placed in different arrangements to beautifully accent dining tables indoors or outdoors or to complement your interior design.
Available through analinaresdesign.com and stores in New York City.

Duo bookshelf:

The Duo bookshelf has a particular way of holding your books by creating an illusion of lightness.
Available through analinaresdesign.com and stores in New York City.

furniture bound

Pat Fricke, grad 2008, now designing furntiure for the reknown Krueger International (KI). Products currently being manufactured;
Sela lounge collection (KI)He has done work with; Facebook, Microsoft, Ebay, FBI and Giancarlo Piretti on a redesign. See his website link here, but also see his profile on Coroflot. It has more to offer than his website which is a work in progress.
Great professional strides, depth, clarity.

from afar

The first image of ID alumni from Pratt institute is from Victor Monserrate, with a write up in 3rings.designerpages.com - see his coroflot link and his blog in the blog list. From Sao Paulo with the Campana Brothers, to Puerto Rico, working hard as ever. Graduated Pratt I.D. 2008.