School of Design Archives

USA Today Features Winners of Last Year’s Umbra/Pratt Design Competition

USA Today recently featured the winning design from last year's annual Umbra/Pratt Design Competition, which was created by Pratt industrial design students Caleb Ferris and Prakhar Mehrota and produced by renowned design company Umbra. The design, titled T-Frame,…

Fashion

Pratt to Present First U.S. Screening of Documentary Film on Fashion Designer Miguel Adrover

Pratt Institute’s Departments of Fashion and Film/Video will present the first U.S. screening of “Call it a Balance in the Unbalance,” a documentary film by Regine Lettner about the tumultuous career and visionary work of avant garde fashion designer…

Graduate Industrial Design

Millions Tuned Into Pratt on Two National CNBC Programs

CNBC, a world-leader in business news that reaches more than 100 million homes in the United States and Canada, recently featured Pratt Institute on “How I Made My Millions” and “The Wall Street Journal Report.” “How…

Graduate Interior Design

The New York Times Quotes Interior Design Faculty Members in Article on Creative Wall Decor

The New York Times recently quoted Interior Design Faculty Members Karin Tehve and Stephen Horner in an article on creative wall decor solutions. Tehve and Horner helped address the question of how a person “with design ignorance and a…

Graduate Communications Design

The Museum of Modern Art Acquires Punk/Post-Punk Poster Designed by Pratt Institute Faculty Member

Pratt Communications Design Faculty Member Tom Klinkowstein's punk/post-punk poster can now be counted among the 28,000 works included in the permanent architecture and design collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Klinkowstein is an adjunct professor…

Graduate Industrial Design

Design Programs Highly Ranked in Nationwide Survey of Industry Professionals by DesignIntelligence

Pratt Institute's graduate program in industrial design was recently ranked 2nd in the country–up from 7th in 2012–based on surveys completed by industry professionals and made available through monthly architecture and design journal, DesignIntelligence (DI). Pratt's undergraduate program in…

Undergraduate Industrial Design

Design Milk Features “Day in the Life” of a Pratt Industrial Design Student

Design Milk recently featured undergraduate industrial design student Casey Daurio as part of its inaugural “Designer Dailies Student Edition” column. The column typically looks at a day in the life of a designer; Daurio was the first student…

Graduate Communications Design

Bloomberg Businessweek Quotes Communications Design Faculty Member on Arby’s Logo Redesign

Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Graham Hanson, a faculty member in Pratt's graduate communications design department, in an article on Arby's new logo design. The publication quoted Hanson and three other design professionals to get their thoughts on the new…

Graduate Industrial Design

Industrial Design Faculty Member Quoted in Bloomberg Story on Channeling Apple Inc.’s Product Design

Bloomberg recently quoted Bruce Hannah, an alumnus and faculty member of Pratt's industrial design department, in an article on how companies in beverage market are channeling Apple Inc.'s design ethos.

Fashion

WWD Highlights Pratt Student Winner of Annual SUPIMA Design Competition

Women's Wear Daily recently highlighted 2012 fashion design graduate Kate Wilkoff in an article on the Supima Design Competition, an annual competition that challenges recent fashion graduates to create capsule collections using Supima cotton fabrics. Wilkoff was named…