Hasta La Ideas

Photography courtesy Elizabeth Lamark, RIT ETC

Last week we were invited to participate in the jury for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s inaugural Metaproject, a student competition and an industry partnership which places student output into a global venue.

Metaproject is a new initiative at RIT. In keeping with the Design is One philosophy espoused by the Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Metaproject aims to encourage students to produce design that is “semantically correct, syntactically correct, and pragmatically understandable, but also visually powerful, intellectually elegant and timeless”.

Congratulations to Dan Fritz, the competition winner of this year’s Metaproject01 presentation. His chair will be unveiled this May at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.

Second place was awarded to Colleen MacKenzie.

Colleen MacKenzie, “Stanchion”

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