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The Best of 2009 Student Design

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Pratt: Mag Stool

A huge hit at May’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (it won ICFF’s Editors Award for Best Design School), Pratt Institute’s Department of Industrial Design’s “Design For A Dollar” booth was pure recession innovation. Students were challenged to create unique furniture, décor, and lighting designs with a production cost of $1. Li-Rong Liao, a first year graduate student, turned a stack of used magazines and a bottle-worth of glue into a stunning abstract stool. Despite being made of paper, the Mag Stool is strong enough to sit on, and Liao says the structure could be expanded to create a bench, chair, or table.

Photographer: Diana Pau