School of Design

Fashion

White House Invites Faculty to Lead Fashion Education Workshop in Wearable Technology

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.

Graduate Digital Arts

Pratt to Host Free Public Festival Celebrating Digital Arts

The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute will host a daylong festival on Saturday, October 18 in Myrtle Hall on the Brooklyn campus entitled, “Pratt Upload: Meme, You, and Everyone We Follow,” to celebrate and explore digital culture…

School of Design

Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Features Work by Professor Luba Lukova

Luba Lukova, an adjunct assistant professor in the undergraduate Communications Design program, is one of the artists included in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition Designing Modern Women 1890-1990,” which ends on October 19. Lukova’s 1987 silkscreen print, There…

School of Architecture

Pratt Launches Geographic Information Systems and Design Certificate Program

Pratt has created a new Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Design certificate program through its Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS) and Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI). The program will offer students a firm grounding in…

Graduate Communications Design

Student Winners in Pratt/Hennessy V.S Competition Join Artist Shepard Fairey for Panel in LA

This summer, two communications design students were given the opportunity to discuss their work with renowned street artist Shepard Fairey and other art world leaders. The students, Eduardo Palma (M.F.A. Communications Design ’15) and Lillian Ling (M.F.A. Communications Design ’15)…

Architecture

MAD Biennial Exhibition Includes Work by Pratt Alumni, Faculty, and Trustees

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…

School of Design

Communications Design Student Joseph Bui Named Finalist in LG’s “Art of the Pixel” Competition

Joseph Bui (B.F.A. Communications Design ‘16) has been selected as one of nine finalists in LG’s new-media art competition, “Art of the Pixel.” Bui’s entry, 110 Fathoms, was created through an experimental photography technique in which Bui used a digital…

School of Design

Undergraduate Communications Design Students Win “Yellow Pencil” at D&AD New Blood Awards

Undergraduate Communications Design students Kevin Chao, Johnny Lee, and Michelle Wang, all from the class of 2014, received a Yellow Pencil award for their team’s entry in this year’s D&AD New Blood Awards competition. A second Pratt student team—James Purdy, Leo…

School of Design

Barnes & Noble Debuts New Pratt-Designed Back-to-School Collection

A new collection of Pratt Institute student-designed products is now available at more than 400 Barnes & Noble stores nationwide and online at BN.com. The “For Students By Students” collection of journals, notebooks, pencil cases, and other back-to-school…

Graduate Industrial Design

MADE@PRATT: A 3D-Woven Chair

For his graduate thesis project, Justin Crocker (M.I.D. '14) created a chair using a three-dimensional structural weaving technique he developed with the help of digital tools. He initially tested the technique by creating a series of small woven paper…