Designs for a Dollar

Check out this website, where Pratt Institute students designed beautiful furniture, lighting, and decorative pieces using materials costing less than a dollar.

We tend to believe that good things, or more valuable things, tend to be more expensive, but a bit of creative thinking will take you a long way!

Think about the kinds of connections these design students had to make in order to come up with the beautiful shapes they created for these pieces (like a sweater sleeve and a juice bottle to make a light fixture). Thinking creatively means bringing strange, seemingly different and disparate ideas together to make something new (like portmanteaus!).