Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman
Industrial Designer, Artist & Educator - Founder, Interwoven Design Group, Professor, Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Artist, RPF Studio
- Role
- Founder & Principal at Interwoven Design Group
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is an accomplished industrial designer, artist, educator, and researcher. As the founder and principal of the award-winning Interwoven Design Group, she combines her expertise in wearable technology, functional apparel, and soft goods with a passion for innovative, human-centered design. Her design work spans from start-ups to global organizations like NASA, and her contributions to the field include award-winning products such as the Even Adaptive lingerie line, HeroWear\'s Apex Exosuit, and the Perci Emergency Preparedness Vest.In addition to her professional practice, Rebeccah is a professor of industrial design at Pratt Institute, where she has been shaping the next generation of designers for 25 years. Her research focuses on design methodologies, smart materials, and the intersection of art and design. She is also the author of Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabrics, published in 2016.Rebeccah\'s emerging art practice is rooted in ceramics, where she explores natural forms, alchemical processes, and the dissolution of boundaries between art, craft, and design. Her work reflects her broader interest in how artistic practice informs and transforms design. She maintains active studios in both Brooklyn and Hudson, NY. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is represented in private collections. She will participate in the Medalta International Artists in Residence program in Alberta, Canada in Spring 2026 and is currently working on a collaboration with Kneedler Fauchier.Whether in the classroom, the studio, or through her professional practice, Rebeccah continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in design, blending innovation, sustainability, and artistic expression.
Experience
Founder & Principal
Feb 2015 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US
Interwoven Design Group is a sensory technology design studio. We create connections between the body, textiles, and technology. As founder and principal, Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman explores new and unexpected ways that bodies, emerging technologies and physical, social, and cultural environments intersect and converge — how people act and react in the spaces we inhabit.Interwoven produces select projects from corporate clients and research explorations. We weave sensory technology, smart textiles, and intuitive feedback into captivating wearable technology. With fluency in research, design, and production, interdisciplinary teams work to create objects and artifacts that embody innovation.
Education
University of New Hampshire
Mechanical Engineering
1980 — 1981
Pratt Institute
MID, Industrial Design
1999 — 2002
Pratt Institute
BFA, Fashion Design
1981 — 1985
Fashion Institute of Technology
Millinery Certificate
1987 — 1988
School of Visual Arts
Master's of Industrial Design, Typography, Graphic Design and Screen Printing
1990 — 1992
Skills
- User-Centered Design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Sketching
- Industrial Design
- Sewing
- Rendering
- Illustrator
- Concept Development
- Product Design
- Textiles
- Fashion
- Fashion Design
- Graphic Design
- Packaging
- Public Relations
- Leadership
- Illustration
- Logo Design
- Indesign
- Photoshop
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