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With studio instructors Francine Monaco and Anthony Caradonna, students develop new material surface products for Designtex, manufacturer of architectural wall coverings, fabrics, and panels. By employing strategies of no-waste manufacturing and recycling, designed surfaces emerge as full-scale prototypes that explore pattern, repetition, and transparency at multiple scales while rethinking the architectural surface through environmentally responsible design methodologies.

Designtex’s second collaboration with challenged the professors and students to incorporate design innovation into Designtex’s line of Fusion Architectural Panels. Students of the Architecture and Interior Design Departments were given the mission to conduct materials and market research to develop innovative surface product ideas for commercial interior and architectural applications. Throughout the creative process raw ideas were translated into representational designs, and then into full scale real life constructions that awed the Designtex Studio. Students’ projects incorporated everyday materials and objects while staying consistent with the Designtex sustainable mission. This collection represents new finishes, patterns, and application ideas that resulted from the students’ thought-provoking work.

Tom Hamilton, President and CEO, Designtex

Designtex Fall 2007
Professors Anthony Caradonna & Francine Monaco

Interior Design students
Bethany Borel
Amanda Danesi
Jee Hwang
Hwea Eun Kang
Shih-Han Joshuah Liu
Sylvette Slone
Phillip Smith
Ainat Telem
Melany Wimpee
ug ArchItecture stuDents
Elizabeth Gelpi
Lorraine Glover
Jeanee Hammett
Kyle Pollara
Jason Schick
Carolyn Skiba
Daniella Smith
Diane Smith
Designtex Fall 2006
Professors Francine Monaco
and Anthony Caradonna
InterIor DesIgn stuDents
Darcy Budworth
Megan Kelley
Marie Park
Lisa Ra
Luke Gehrke-Rodriguez
Shilpanjali Selliah
Puja Setia
Rebecca Smith
Kate Taylor
Alison Zullo
ug ArchItecture stuDents
Teresa Abrego
Neka Highland
Simon Ho
Karl Hohlman
Ian Kazanowski
On Pui Lai
Anthony Lanza
Robin Sasseville
Maya Semple

Manufactured Surfaces Studio Credits:
Pratt InstItute
Thomas Schutte, President
Mike Pratt, Chairman of the Board
Thomas Hanrahan, Dean, School of Architecture
Frank Lind, Dean, School of Art & Design
Anita Cooney, Chair, Interior Design
Evan Douglis, Chair, Undergraduate Architecture
PhotograPhy
Neil Alexander for Designtex Studio
Hiepler, Brunler for HunterDouglas
and VELUX Studios

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