Tyler Pratt on designing simple things to solve everyday needs

Industrial Design/2015/1 min/Reel № 15.001

ByTyler Pratt

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Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Tyler Pratt takes industrial design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Canada in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Tyler's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Carleton University industrial design graduate Tyler Pratt makes simple, elegant products that solve everyday needs.

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Tyler Pratt

Canada

Tyler Pratt is a Canadian industrial designer known for his use of clean and simplistic design principles.