**** HOT NEW YORK EVENTS **** Pratt Institute New York, NY. – Pratt Institute is proud to announce its first annual Design Symposium: Design is the New Currency. A thought provoking presentation and discussion that brings together esteemed speakers from the most diverse fields of design to talk about how, in an ever-changing world, Design has become the x-plus factor. Consumers know that they are buying Design and embrace their need to identify with products that support their sense of taste, sophistication and worth. In a world that has blurred class distinctions and fueled the consumer’s need to underscore their own identity with a personal style that defines them, Design has become an important part of their DNA. If ‘Design is the New Currency’ then a designer’s imagination is the bank from which to draw new ideas. The symposium will take place on November 2nd at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. “Whether we are creating bottles for perfume,...
