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Suzanne E. Vanderbilt (Pratt ID ’55) discusses her life at General Motors as a pioneering female industrial designer, and her influences including Pratt instructors Rowena and Alexander Kostellow.
www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Vanderbilt/Vanderbilti.htm
Product designer Ted Muehling discusses with Metropolis his influences including Pratt Institute instructor, Rowena Reed Kostellow.
www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2488
The first influence on the University of Guadalajara’s school of design came from the pedagogical program developed at Pratt Institute, initiated by Alexander Jusserand Kostellow and later perfected by Rowena Reed Kostellow. The curriculum has remained as a model for the institution and for many design programs outside the United States. This paper, written by Jaime Francisco Gómez for the International Conference of Design History and Studies and presented it in its Helsinki edition in 2006, was later published by Design Discourse Japan in 2007.
http://www.designhistoryforum.org/dd/modules/mydownloads/