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School of Design
Gaspar de Jesus (B.I.D. ’01) is one of six designers selected to compete on Ellen’s Design Challenge, a new HGTV series from the Emmy Award-winning entertainer and comedian Ellen DeGeneres that premiered on January 26. The show follows the designers…
Architecture
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…
Graduate Digital Arts
{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…
Chengtao Yi (B.I.D. ’15) was selected earlier this year to design the award for Legends 2014, Pratt Institute’s annual scholarship benefit honoring icons of art and design whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape. For the last several years,…
Fashion
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…
Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman taught a wearable technology design studio class last fall in which Pratt students collaborated with engineering students from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) on a project for NASA’s WEAR lab.
Can creativity be taught? The New York Times recently examined this question through a slideshow of student projects—featuring three pieces from Pratt Institute—that highlight creative problem-solving skills Students from institutions across the country were invited to submit projects…
Graduate Fine Arts
Two recent Pratt graduates were named to Forbes magazine's third annual “30 Under 30” feature, which spotlights the brightest stars in 15 different fields under the age of 30. Included in the elite group are Ian Collings (B.I.D. ’08), who…
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 monthly architecture and design journal, DesignIntelligence (DI). “Rankings play…
