Lucia DeRespinis (born 1927) is an American

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known for her work with George Nelson and her creation of the pink and orange

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logo. DeRespinis was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1927. She attended

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and then

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has an additional campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The institute was founded in 18 ...

, graduating in 1952. She worked at the design studio ''George Nelson & Associates'' from 1954 through 1963. Her creations there include the ''Beehive Hanging Lamp''. In 1959 she worked on the design of the American display for the

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in Moscow. She taught design at Pratt from 1975 until 2020, when she retired. DeRespinis was the recipient of the 2008

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Award. She is a Fellow of the ''

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''. Her work is in the

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and the

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Collection.

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