kath davis design

a creative living and working in brooklyn, ny.

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drop/stitch (2025)

Developed in the context of Knit to Inhabit, a multidisciplinary course utilizing CNC (Computer Numerical Control) knitting, Drop/stitch explores the architectural and spatial potential of computational knitting at multiple scales. The cloud-like forms and suspended raindrops are meant to celebrate the graduating class of 2025, who are concluding their time here at Pratt, while entering into the next cycle of their lives.Pratt has brought this graduating class all together to develop from students into professionals entering the broader world of art and design.

Much like raindrops in the rain cycle, these emerging designers have gone through multiple stages to arrive at this point. Initially gathering, like water vapor, from different backgrounds, they formed clusters, like clouds, that grew together with the shared weight of acquired skills and experiences. After years of study, they are now released in a burst, like a rain shower, into the professional design world.

Drop/stitch was created through the combination of a rigid frame that structures the flexible knit components. The primary framing elements use plywood rings and joints, reinforced by a pre-fabricated aluminum rail system. An ellipse shaped ring is suspended from the center of each top ring, providing two sets of anchor points for each of the ‘cloud’ knits, holding the textiles in tension. The ellipse shaped rings also hold anchor points for the small scale knit ‘raindrops’. Each ‘raindrop’ holds its forms through two rigid acrylic disks and a weighted balloon, that reinforces the raindrop shape, inside the knit. (read more).

Design Team: Chanbin Im, Chloe Bonnet, Erin Ho, Joanna Barnett, Katherine Davis, Marily Papanastasatou, Peilin Chen, Sar Gelber, Shine Liu, Sofia Arreola Salem, and Professor Tracey Weisman.

making in ruin (2025)

This deck was created for makers, designers, artists, and crafts people who are at times afraid, anxious, worried, but also hopeful, imaginitive, and inspired.

These people desire to fuel their angst and hope in craft and art as a means of expressive practice, to fellowhsip with others, or to create the realities they desire.

The deck currently contains three categories of cards; historical inspiration cards, do-it-yourself cards with craft instructions, and cards to record inspiration.

Created with Amira Chowyuk.

kath davis design

a creative living and working in brooklyn, ny.

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studies in ecology