Undergraduate Communications Design

Packaging, Identities and Systems Design

Spotlight on the 2018 Winter Games: What Does It Take to Design a Memorable Olympic Emblem?

The 2018 Winter Olympic Games began on February 9 in PyeongChang, South Korea. Along with photographs of the gold, silver, and bronze Olympics medals and coverage of the athletes who will receive them, one image being…

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Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Official Poster Features Work by Graphic Design Student Jenna Chi

Work by Jenna Chi, BFA Communications Design ’19, is featured on the commemorative poster, Official Program cover, and notecards for the 142nd Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, which will be held in New York City from February 10–13,…

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MoMA Design Store Features Holiday Card by Recent Communications Design Graduate Risa Takeuchi

A pop-up card designed in 2016 by Risa Takeuchi, BFA Communications Design ’17, in the Pop-up Paper Engineering course at Pratt was selected as a winner of the Museum of Modern Art’s Holiday Card Program. The 3D laser die-cut…

Graduate Communications Design

Pratt Institute Hosts Comic Arts Brooklyn with Hundreds of Artists and Publishers

The ninth annual Comic Arts Brooklyn festival of comics and cartoon art came to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus on November 11, providing a glimpse at the past, present, and future of comics creation and culture. Co-hosted by Pratt Institute and…

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Jessica Wexler Appointed Chair of Undergraduate Communications Design Department

Design educator and graphic designer Jessica Wexler has been selected as chair of the Undergraduate Communications Design Department within the School of Design. She assumed the role on August 1, 2017. Wexler has a breadth of experience both as…

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Professor Scott Menchin Illustrates Presidential Debate Live for The New York Times

On Wednesday, October 19, Scott Menchin, adjunct professor of undergraduate communications design, illustrated the final televised presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump live for the New York Times on Facebook. During the real-time drawing, people watching…

Fashion

Pratt Participates in NYCxDESIGN from May 3–17

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,…

Graduate Communications Design

What’s in a Logo? The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Controversial Logo Redesign

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) recently redesigned its logo to much criticism in the press. Pratt Institute’s Communications Design faculty member Graham Hanson, president and chief creative director at GHD, discusses the rationale behind these types of rebranding efforts…

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Alumnus Johnnie Christmas Teams with Renowned Author Margaret Atwood on New Graphic Novel

Pratt alumnus and artist Johnnie Christmas (B.F.A. Communications Design '01) has collaborated with Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood on her first and widely anticipated graphic novel, Angel Catbird, to be published in the fall of 2016. Angel Catbird will be…

Graduate Digital Arts

Pratt Presents Digital Arts Exhibition during Art Basel Miami Beach

{exp:slideshowpro id=”768″ type=”album”} Pratt Digital Arts, an exhibition organized with partners LG Electronics USA and Surface magazine, attracted lively crowds to a special reception for Pratt alumni and friends and an exclusive Surface magazine talk with musician FKA Twigs and…