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Fashion

Artforum Features Fashion Faculty Member Susan Cianciolo in Major Cover Story

Artist and designer Susan Cianciolo, assistant professor of fashion in the School of Design, is the focus of a major Artforum  cover story written by artist Nick Mauss. The article, which is about Cianciolo’s career and artistic practice, appears in…

Graduate Interior Design

Graduate Interior Design Students Win CONNECT Competition at 2015 SOFA CHICAGO Fair

Graduate interior design students and faculty from Pratt Institute competed for the third consecutive year at the SOFA CHICAGO (Sculptural Objects Functional Art + Design) CONNECT competition and won first place for the second time, tying with the University of…

Fashion

Metropolitan Museum Curator Harold Koda to be Honored at 2016 Pratt Fashion Show

Pratt Institute will honor Harold Koda, curator in charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the Pratt Fashion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Pratt Institute Fashion Show on May 5, 2016. The 117th runway show will spotlight inventive student designs from graduating…

Graduate Digital Arts

Pratt Faculty and Alumni to Participate in Art Basel Miami Beach

A number of Pratt faculty and alumni will be participating in exhibitions and events during Art Basel Miami Beach from December 3-6. In addition, Pratt will present a panel discussion, “Women of Influence in the Business of Art” with media…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence Survey Ranks Pratt Design Programs among Best in Nation

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),…

Graduate Communications Design

Fourth Annual Pratt/Hennessy V.S Competition Displays Student Work in Pop-Up Gallery

Christiana Theophanopolus (M.F.A. Communications Design ’16) was named the winner of the fourth annual Pratt Institute/Hennessy V.S competition for her work entitled, “Meraki.” As part of an ongoing collaboration between Pratt Institute and leading cognac brand Hennessy V.S, 15 students from…

Fashion

Fashion Major Elizabeth Gee Named Winner of First-Ever Halloween Costume Design Contest

Elizabeth Gee (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’18) has been named the winner of the first-ever Halloween costume design contest organized by Pratt Institute and vintage clothing hotspot Screaming Mimi’s. The winning costume design is on view in the Screaming Mimi’s display…

School of Design

Target Stops Labeling Toys by Gender

Constantin Boym, Industrial Design chair within the School of Design and founder of the award-winning design studio Boym Partners Inc., gives context around Target’s recent decision to eliminate separate gender-based signs from their toys, home, and entertainment departments. How are…

Architecture

NASA Project Collaboration Inspires Students to Create Habitat for Travel to Mars

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…

Fashion

Professor Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman and Students Display Wearable Technology in Israel

The Biet Ha’ir Museum in Tel Aviv is displaying The BioWear Project, a wearable technology piece designed by Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design and Fashion Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman. Also on view are a number of works created by the students…