Kicking off the most recent 2024/2025 Design Dialog Collection by the Vignelli Heart for Design Research is Felicia Ferrone. Ferrone is a Chicago-born designer and founding father of Fferrone Design, recognized for her beautiful glassware and modern strategy mixing structure and product design. Influenced by her early structure profession in Milan with design legends like Antonio Citterio and Piero Lissoni, her work emphasizes the seamless integration of type and performance. Ferrone’s creations have been commissioned by international manufacturers corresponding to Audi and Boffi and featured in main publications. Past her follow, she is a devoted educator, serving as a medical professor and director of undergraduate industrial design research on the College of Illinois Chicago.
On this discuss, Ferrone shares her inspirations, her course of, and the way she transitioned from structure to product design. She additionally talks about her time and follow in Italy, in addition to her philosophies as each a designer and educator.
To be taught extra about Felicia Ferrone and Fferrone Design, watch the lecture under:
Felicia Ferrone
To be taught extra about The Vignelli Heart for Design Research at RIT, they’ve launched digital entry to the archives by way of Google Arts & Tradition, becoming a member of over 2000 cultural establishments from around the globe. The preliminary launch consists of almost 900 excessive decision photos of artifacts from the archives in order that now anybody with entry to the Web and Google Arts & Tradition can search the Vignelli archives or browse it by coloration or chronological order.
This lecture is offered with the help of RIT’s MAGIC Heart.
This lecture collection is made doable partially by the generosity of RIT Alumnus, Chris Bailey, and Bailey Model Consulting.
