In phase two of a semester-long collaboration, designer Lori Weitzner recently traveled to Philadelphia University’s College of Design, Engineering & Commerce to look over the initial wall covering and textile proposals presented by 30 participating graduate and undergraduate students. In phase one of the program, the group of industrial designers, fashion designers and business students had visited Weitzner’s studio and Pollack’s headquarters in New York.
Thirteen groups submitted designs for this first review, with seven getting Weitzner’s approval to continue work on the prospective wallcovering products. Two groups with similar ideas merged into one group, while the six groups whose ideas didn’t get approved were disbanded and their members reassigned to the advancing teams
