Forget the tossing of mortarboards or the flipping of tassels. As something akin to a graduation exercise, the ICFF annually hosts a juried exhibition of design's next generation from prestigious schools around the world. This year, the exhibition will show off the solutions to essential design questions by undergraduate and graduate students preparing to leave six of the world's premier academies: ArtFuture, Konstfack, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and YSOA (Yale School of Architecture).
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ArtFuture
In the & project, students grapple with how to express the idea of "and/ampersand" and conciliate opposite ways of living and thinking through the geometric languages of form and the process of design.
In the & project, students grapple with how to express the idea of "and/ampersand" and conciliate opposite ways of living and thinking through the geometric languages of form and the process of design.
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Konstfack
In Potential Energy, MFA students explore the implications of the First Law of Thermodynamics (that energy cannot be created or destroyed) on lighting design.
In Potential Energy, MFA students explore the implications of the First Law of Thermodynamics (that energy cannot be created or destroyed) on lighting design.
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MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art)
In Old Materials in New Dimensions students transform age – old materials – cotton, bamboo, wood, terra-cotta, silk, etc. – into environmentally friendly products for the future via classic and new technologies.
In Old Materials in New Dimensions students transform age – old materials – cotton, bamboo, wood, terra-cotta, silk, etc. – into environmentally friendly products for the future via classic and new technologies.
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Parsons The New School for Design
In Flow, product design students explore the many global and local manifestations of continuous motion and the on-going cycles of cultures, economies, ideas, and life through a variety of materials and formal expressions.
In Flow, product design students explore the many global and local manifestations of continuous motion and the on-going cycles of cultures, economies, ideas, and life through a variety of materials and formal expressions.
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Pratt Institute
In Empathy for Culture, students immerse themselves in other cultures and investigate design's capacity in this global age to serve as a "medium for sharing and integrating the unique ideas of a particular culture within the physicality of design."
In Empathy for Culture, students immerse themselves in other cultures and investigate design's capacity in this global age to serve as a "medium for sharing and integrating the unique ideas of a particular culture within the physicality of design."
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YSOA (Yale School of Architecture)
In The Chair as Crucible, architecture students investigate the essential issue of architecture (form, structure, materials, aesthetics, and the nature of building) through the process of sketching, refining, and ultimately creating a chair prototype.
In The Chair as Crucible, architecture students investigate the essential issue of architecture (form, structure, materials, aesthetics, and the nature of building) through the process of sketching, refining, and ultimately creating a chair prototype.
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