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Kate Hixon
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
Design principal of Hixon Design Consultants, Hixon
teaches 3-D design fundamentals and studio classes
at Pratt. Her consultancy specializes in architectural
branding, environmental design, exhibit and event
design, editorial design and graphic design, and has
had a diverse body of clients, including Pfizer, FAO
Schwarz, Eziba, Ernest & Young, GT Interactive, and the
United Nations.
Jay Levy
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.Arch., Columbia University;
Levy began his professional career working for 12 years
under two men influential in twentieth century art and
design: the New York architect, Charles Gwathmey,
and the esteemed Japanese sculptor, Isamu Noguchi.
In 1996 Jay Levy Architects was established. The firm
specializes in residential design and has been widely
published. Other personal pursuits include painting,
sculpture, and as an educator at Pratt Institute, the
study of abstract visual relationships.
Mark Lim
Adjunct Professor, cce
B.F.A., Seoul National University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute;
Jong S. Lim (a.k.a. Mark Lim); “Glomar Explorer” ship
project; First Place Award, Orange County Engineering
Council, (1977/1978); engineering specialist at Holmes
and Narver Inc.; manager of industrial design research
and development and author of design patents (U.S.
and Europe) at the Conair Corporation; has exhibited at
Gallery Korea, and Hyundai Art Gallery.
Scott Lundberg
AssistAnt chAir; Adjunct AssociAte Professor
B.S., B. Arch., North Dakota State University; M.I.D.,
Pratt Institute; a designer and educator who teaches
industrial design at Pratt Institute and exhibit design
at the Fashion Institute of Technology, he recently
became IDSA section vice chair for communicative
environments; designed the Gossner College
Campanile in Bihar Ranchi, India; a shower shelf based
on DARPA technology for Shelfworks; and a display-
driven, wine-finding experience for Bottlerocket Wine &
Spirit that got an A+ from Zagat.
Michael McMahon
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; computer animator in New York
City for over 20 years, whose projects have included
numerous 3-D animations for broadcast television,
as well as animated simulations of products and
prototypes for industry; has taught computer animation
to undergraduate and continuing education students
at New York University, and also helped to establish the
Computer-Aided Industrial Design program at Pratt
Institute in the early 1990s; currently on staff as an
animator for the ABC/ESPN television network.Steven Mercurio
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.E., M.E. Mechanical Engineering, S.U.N.Y Stonybrook;
worked for the New York City Transit Authority as a
mechanical engineer and later moved into several
positions within CADD Edge, Inc., a New York company
focused on design services, rapid prototyping, software,
training, and seminars for design and engineering
solutions; while at CADD Edge, Inc. was active in
projects on a one-on-one basis, as well as being
involved in full team environments to assist within
large design firms; has taught modeling software, its
applications and manufacturing processes since 2001,
and is known at Pratt for his expertise on SolidWorks; his
teaching mission is to directly couple the relationship
between the manufacturing process and industrial
design through a comprehensive understanding of
SolidWorks; by leveraging his many relationships with
design firms throughout the Northeast, he is able to
convey how design decisions, good and bad, will impact
the final, real-world application.Frank Millero
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.S. Molecular Cell Biology, University of California
at Berkeley; M.I.D., Pratt Institute; has worked at the
Exploratorium museum in San Francisco (1991–2001)
where he developed numerous biology-based exhibits
and programs, similar to the way his graduate thesis
explored ways of connecting people to the natural
world; has taught courses on color and ecological
design since 2004; now a practicing designer currently
focusing on tableware and table linens.Katrin Mueller-Russo
AssociAte Professor
Dipl Des, Industrial Design, Hochschule für Bildende
Künste Hamburg, Germany; has practiced with
Hoberman Associates as a design director, working
on the Hoberman Sphere toy line, on educational
applications; and as a consultant collaborating on
foldable products for a major children‘s product
manufacturer; in 1997, she founded Specific Objects
Inc., an interdisciplinary, sustainability oriented design
practice in New York; her work as been exhibited
internationally and her awards include the Ideas
Competition Design Plus at the Frankfurt International
Fair Ambiente for her hearing aid design; with her
partner, she was chosen as a finalist for the Newark
Visitors Center competition in 2009.Judith Nylen
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; M.F.A. Painting and Printmaking,
Pratt Institute; B.A., Scripps College; has taught Portfolio
and Professional Practices since 2005; has more
than 30 years experience reviewing Industrial Design
portfolios in her capacity as Director of Career Services,
in which she has helped launch and track the successful
careers of hundreds of students and alumni; exhibiting
photographer and printmaker who has worked in the
field of educational exhibition design.Shigeru Natsume
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.F.A., Space Design, Aichi Prefecture University of Fine
Arts, (Aichi Prefecture, Japan); B.F.A., Environmental
Design, Parsons School of Design; M.F.A., 3-D Design,
Cranbrook Academy of Art; Natsume is vice president
and director of design/research and vice president of
ECCO Design in New York City; prior to joining ECCO
Design, he worked for frogdesign and served clients
such as Nike, Timex, Ford, and Coca-Cola; General Mills
sponsored one of his most recent classes, and currently
he is involved with another program sponsored by
Colgate Palmolive.