Robert Rabinovitz received his BS in Industrial Design from Philadelphia College of Art (as of 1985, University of the Arts) in 1982. After a decade working as a professional designer, he returned to school to pursue his MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He graduated from Cranbrook in 1992 and later that year began teaching industrial design at the University of Wisconsin, Stout. From September 1997 until August 1998, Rabinovitz studied sculpture in the MFA program of the Pennsylvia Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before joining the industrial design faculty of the College of Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit. At CCS, he served as section chair for the school's furniture program for four years and as interim industrial design department chair for one year.

In September 2002, Rabinovitz moved to New York and began teaching at Parsons School of Design. Between 2002 and 2007, he taught a variety of BFA Studio and Portfolio classes in the Product Design Department in the School of Constructed Environments, courses in the First Year Foundation Department and the Summer SPACE intensive courses and program. Since 2007, he has been full time faculty in the School of Design Strategies (SDS) where he developed the first Senior Portfolio course for all students of SDS in the BFA Integrated Design and the BBA Strategic Design and Management program. As of 2018, he continues to teach in other schools, including Product Design studio courses in the BFA School of Fashion, the First Year Space Materiality program in the School of Art, Design, History and Theory, and a variety of studio classes in the BBA Strategic Design and Management program and BFA Integrated Design programs. Between 2002 and 2007, Rabinovitz taught a variety of Product Design Studio courses and year-long Senior Portfolio course at Pratt Institute.

As an educator and a design consultant since leaving Cranbrook Academy of Art, Rabinovitz launched his own design studio, Spring + Crosby, named after the location of his studio at Spring and Crosby Streets in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. He exhibited this collection at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (known as ICFF) that year, and, as of 2018, continues to pursue the development and production of ideas related to the works developed from Spring + Crosby as they relate to experiential and interactive art and design.

In 2012, Rabinovitz returned to further his career and studies following a life threatening brain seizure and brain surgery in 2007. He received his MA in film and screenwriting from The New School of Media Studies in 2015. He received international attention for his short film, Maybe Me, and feature length screenplay co-written with Amos Poe, The Seizure.

Sources

Rabinovitz, Robert. "Spring + Crosby." Accessed June 29, 2018. http://www.springandcrosby.com.

The New School. "Robert Rabinovitz." Accessed June 29, 2018. https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/continuing-education-faculty/?id=4d54-6333-4d6a-4d7a.