Guillermo Bernal holds an architecture degree from Pratt but spends his day cranking out complex and fascinating work using his specialties of algorithmic design and advance digital fabrication. This Exocarp Chair was inspired by the scaly nature of a reptile’s skin, as well as the rough skins of foods like cantaloupes and avocados. Both of those skins are used for protection, and in the reptile’s case, as a way to reduce moisture loss in the skin.

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Exocarp Chair by Guillermo Bernal

Christina Fesmire is a graduate student of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, and with her Fugle Swing she asks “is adulthood joyful?” Having become intrigued with the impacts emerging from Scandinavia in the twentieth century, I wanted to bring this fascination closer to my image what an adult swing could become. The concavity, or central portion of the piece was decided after weeks of anatomical study on the human coccyx. The practicality of comfort and aestheticism were joined in determining the overall shape

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Fugle Swing by Christina Fesmire