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School of Design

Pratt Institute and Lehigh University Students Use Design to Change Perceptions of Mental Illness

A group of six Pratt students from a range of disciplines traveled to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this summer to participate in Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Program, in which students collaborate in teams to solve problems with real-world implications. Work by one…

Graduate Digital Arts

Video: Digital Arts Students Use Augmented Reality to Enhance Library Experience

A group of 11 Pratt Institute digital arts students have activated the Pratt Library on the Institute’s Brooklyn campus with librARy : works cited, an augmented reality (AR) exhibition of works that inform, entertain, and speculate on the past…

School of Architecture

Innovative Studio Course Provides Students with Real-World Experience in Planning and Policy

Students in Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) gained real-world experience in land use, policy, and planning through an innovative new studio class this past spring that focused on the East New York/Cypress Hills area of…

Fashion

Two Pratt Fashion Students Participate in Design for Disability Initiative

Emily Ridings (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’18) and Dominique Kelly (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’18) recently participated in a Cerebral Palsy Foundation initiative in which students from Pratt Institute, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Parsons School of Design teamed up…

Graduate Interior Design

Refugees Around the World Spur Pratt Students and Faculty to Develop New Ideas and Designs

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, there are 65.3 million people around the world today who have been forced from their homes, including 21.3 million refugees—the highest levels of displacement on record. As…

Crit: Sculpture and Integrated Practices Professor Analia Segal and Lindsay McAleavy, BFA Film ’17

As part of a series of conversations between faculty and students on student work Fine Arts professor Analia Segal and Film student Lindsay McAleavy discuss McAleavy’s film The Plastic Pilgrim.

Graduate Interior Design

Noguchi Museum Showcases Work by Interior Design Students in Third Annual Exhibition

Each spring, Pratt graduate interior design students collaborate with The Noguchi Museum, located in Long Island City, Queens, for Noguchi + Pratt, an exhibition of Isamu Noguchi-inspired work. This year’s exhibition, which was on view at The Noguchi Museum…

Jewelry

Lillian Ismail (B.F.A. Jewelry ’17) Selected to Exhibit Work at JCK Las Vegas Jewelry Show

Lillian Ismail (B.F.A. Jewelry ’17) was selected to represent Pratt Institute in the second annual “Kickstarter” program at JCK Las Vegas 2017, the jewelry industry’s premier annual trade show, from June 5-8. JCK Las Vegas draws more than 30,000…

Graduate Industrial Design

CBS Moneywatch Features Aaron Nesser (M.I.D ’17) in Article About Sustainable Footwear

Pratt Institute student Aaron Nesser (M.I.D. ’17) was quoted in a CBS MoneyWatch article about footwear made from biological materials. The April 18 article by Irina Ivanova explored how a new shoe set to be released from Reebok this…

Artwork by Student Sofia Albee Selected for Society of Illustrators Competition

Domino Masters, a tempera painting by Sofia Albee (A.A.S. Graphic Design/Illustration ’17), has been accepted into the 2017 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition and is being exhibited at the Society’s Museum of American Illustration in New York City…