Designing anything beneficial–for one dollar or less–was the challenge Pratt students set for themselves as part of this year’s ICFF Design Schools’ Exhibition.

Surprisingly, the Pratt students managed to come up with a wide array of intriguing items, many of which were born of cast-off materials. That made their cost not only less than a dollar, but environmentally solid gold.

Directed by Pratt’s professor of industrial design, Mark Goetz, students were asked to create designs that factored in such things as transportation, energy, material, waste, labor, and a wide array of manufacturing costs. Some 80 graduate and undergraduate students took the challenge, and 15 of the best were chosen to participate in the exhibit.

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