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Pratt is participating in NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official citywide celebration of design, through a variety of exhibitions and presentations of student, faculty, and alumni work. Highlights are listed below. Pratt Design 2016 May 12–16 Pratt Design 2016: This exhibition,…
Architecture
Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…
Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country, according to America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2016, the newest edition of the annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI),…
In a challenge presented by NASA, Pratt students are being inspired to address design concerns related to space travel. For an interdisciplinary studio class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture Michael Morris and Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design…
Graduate Industrial Design
Designer Constantin Boym has been named Industrial Design chair within Pratt Institute’s School of Design. He will assume the role on July 13, 2015, succeeding Scott Lundberg, who has served as interim chair since fall 2014. Boym is founder of…
Dwell magazine recently profiled Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design Lucia DeRespinis (B.I.D. ’52) and her distinguished design and teaching career. The story by Kelsey Keith highlights DeRespinis’ education at Pratt—where she was one of three women in the graduating class…
Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country, according to a recently released annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI), a monthly architecture and design journal. The rankings are…
Ruth Lande Shuman (M.I.D. ’89) received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for her nonprofit organization Publicolor at an awards ceremony at the White House on November 10. First Lady Michelle Obama presented Shuman with the award, which…
Led by Debera Johnson, executive director of Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA), a select group of research fellows and students traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in the first-ever White House Fashion Education Workshop on October 8.
Pratt alumni, faculty, and trustees are featured in the Museum of Arts and Design's (MAD) inaugural NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial exhibition, which showcases work of 100 makers from across New York City's five boroughs. The exhibition will be on…
