School of Design

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Work by Fiona Conlon, BFA ’19

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A student wearing safety goggles and earplugs at work in a workshop. Tools are around them. A Tool Library where they can check out tools is in the background.

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A Wooden Side Table Inspired by Paper by Xinda (Parker) Wang, MID ’22

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At Pratt, we believe that design at its best is a force for good: it connects, enables, sustains, empowers, and humanizes. Across four undergraduate programs and four graduate programs, we explore the expansiveness of this idea. As a student here, you’ll design messages, objects, spaces, and systems, and discover the power of your practice—to creatively change the world you’re in and the world around you.

Departments

Fashion Design

multiple models, standing in a large industrial room, at a perspective of 2 feet away, with models wearing designs from students

Graduate Communications Design

Industrial Design

a detail photograph of a metal frame of a bench with slats running across it.

Interior Design

Undergraduate Communications Design

Graphic design with neon colors. A sleeping, naked woman floats amongst an array of different items like plants, posters, alarm clocks and other objects in abstract forms.

SoD Co-Design

A workshop in a classroom setting, with participants seated at tables and engaged in a project. In the foreground, a diverse group of students listens attentively to a presenter who is gesturing towards a screen displaying a slide titled "What does a door do?" Various craft supplies are scattered on the tables. The room features bright lighting and walls decorated with colorful artwork.

Undergraduate Programs

A person with short dark hair is focused on crocheting in a bright, modern workspace. They are wearing a black turtleneck and holding a crochet hook, working on a textured piece made of yarn. Various sewing materials and garments are visible in the background, indicating a creative environment. Natural light streams in through a large window.

Graduate Programs

News from the School of Design

Portrait of Alumna Júlia Martinez

Design with Purpose: Júlia Martinez ’25 on Finding a Meaningful Career

From Prattfolio

Júlia Martinez, MS Packaging, Identities, and Systems Design ’25, is a graphic designer and visualizer at OXMAN, a design lab exploring how nature and humans can coproduce through biologically informed design.
Four young people are walking together through a brick gate with an arch labeled

Pratt Institute Ranked #5 in World’s Top Art & Design Universities

From Pratt Institute News

The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 also place Pratt in the top three universities for art and design in the United States.
Alumnus Jonathan Lin stands on a city street in New York City.

Entrepreneurship in a Value-Driven World: Career Advice from Founder Jonathan Lin ’25

From Prattfolio

Jonathan Lin, BFA Communications Design ’25, shares insights on launching the brand transformation studio New Studio Partners.
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Work by Elie Romero, BFA ’19

We teach makers how to think, and critical thinkers how to make.

Design is a process that connects people to the world in which they operate with an aim toward making it better. For us, better can be more sustainable, more beautiful, more responsible, more inclusive—at best, it’s all of those things. When you step into the Design Center at Pratt, you’ll see this diverse practice at work in a space that brings all of our disciplines together under one roof.

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