Pratt Center Director Adam Friedman wrote an October 18 column for Crain's New York Business urging New York City government to provide increased production space for the fashion industry.

An exhibition will open in the main gallery of Pratt's Juliana Curran Terian Design Center on Monday, October 26 at 10 a.m. that will feature a world-famous and uniquely gifted artist drawing - from memory alone - a stunningly detailed panorama of New York City following a 45-minute helicopter ride over the city. The artist…

At the site of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation, Governor David A. Paterson announced on October 22 the award of $7.8 million to five projects, part of the first round of awards through the Downstate Revitalization Fund. The Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation was an ideal backdrop for the announcement as it…

An exhibition will open in the main gallery of Pratt's Juliana Curran Terian Design Center on Monday, October 26 at 10 a.m. that will feature a world-famous and uniquely gifted artist drawing - from memory alone - a stunningly detailed panorama of New York City following a 45-minute helicopter ride over the city. The artist…

Pratt industrial design professor Jonathan Thayer was quoted in an October 21 Associated Press article on Windows 7 software and the increasingly design-conscious computer hardware designs. Thayer develops new technology for Estee Lauder Companies and holds nine U.S. utility patents for his work in structural packaging.

The New York Times featured British artist Stephen Wiltshire, who worked in Pratt's Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Gallery to complete a stunningly detailed 18-foot panorama of New York City drawn completely from memory, in its October 28 "About New York" column. Wiltshire, who recalled the city from a 20-minute helicopter ride on Friday,…

Fashion Week Daily featured an article on Pratt's Legends 2009 scholarship benefit in its October 30 "Daily Dispatch" column. The event, which honored designer Marc Jacobs; architect and designer David Rockwell; and performer, poet, and visual artist Patti Smith; was held Thursday, October 29 at 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan and raised $400,000…

Fashion Week Daily featured Pratt Manhattan Gallery's "Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion" exhibition in a recent "Chic Report" post. The exhibition is open now through February 20, 2010 and is the first American exhibition to investigate the sustainable practices of American fashion designers, many of whom are based in New York City.

The…

Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibition "Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion" was previewed in a November 10 TreeHugger post. "Ethics + Aesthetics" is the first American exhibition to investigate the sustainable practices of American fashion designers, many of whom are based in New York City. The exhibition will run from November 20, 2009 through February…

ABC's 20/20, a national primetime news magazine program watched by millions of viewers, will feature Bill Hilson, an adjunct professor in the Graduate Communications Design Department, as he contributes his Photoshop expertise in a segment airing on the program from 10-11 p.m. tonight, December 11 on Channel 7 (standard definition) and Channel 707 (high definition)…

Five students in Pratt's Undergraduate Communications Design Department were selected to display their designs as part of the mtvU Woodie Awards, an annual awards show that highlights the best in college music. The awards show will air at 10 p.m. Friday, December 4 on mtv, mtv2, and mtvU.

This year, mtvU challenged 25 art…

Design blog Core77 recently featured a first-hand account from 11 young Pratt designers who traveled to Guyana to collaborate with factory workers and indigenous artisan weavers to create sustainable furniture designs. Click here to read about their experience.

Surface Magazine included thesis projects by recent Pratt graduates Charles Constantine, John Renaud, and Laura Weatherly in its annual Thesis Guide, which comprises the top graduate thesis work from 2009. Constantine's industrial design thesis addresses the North American funeral ritual, creating furniture and accessories that place life and death side by side. Renaud's fashion…

Change Observer, a channel of Design Observer that is devoted to the many dimensions of design for social innovation, posted a review of Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibition "Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion" on December 15. The review examined the sustainable aspects of all exhibition content, including the exhibition catalog and the exhibition design…

Yanko Design blog recently featured nine innovative chair designs by Pratt students and recent graduates that will be exhibited as part of the renowned international furniture and interior design fair imm cologne in Cologne, Germany from January 19-24. It is the first time that Pratt will exhibit in this international venue, which is…

New York Magazine featured two model residence interiors at the new Third + Bond townhouses in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, that were completely outfitted with artwork and designs by Pratt students, faculty, and alumni in a "Design Hunting" post by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. The environments include conceptually innovative and aesthetically stunning wall coverings,…

Tucker Viemeister, Pratt alumnus and LAB Chief at Rockwell Group is the author of an article titled "What Is Industrial Design?" for Fast Company describing his father (and fellow alumnus) and his Pratt professors Rowena Reed, Donald Dohner, and Gordon Lippincott sought to answer the question in the 1940s with the publication of a supplemental…

Judy Nylen, director of Career Services at Pratt, was quoted in a Communication Arts column titled "What Else Can You Do With a Design Education" with advice for job-seekers who are having trouble finding design jobs due to the economy. Nylen recommends getting a job selling products you want to design to learn what influences…

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran a front page story on fashion design student Kasia Wisniewski in its February 4 issue. Wisniewski was honored by the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) with one of four $25,000 FSF Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards at the 2010 FSF Geoffrey Beene Fashion Scholarship Awards Dinner in January. Also…

The New York Times highlighted Pratt fashion design instructor Emily Putterman in a February 4 article on shoemaking. Putterman, who teaches a popular shoemaking course at the Institute, is a second instructor at a shoemaking course taught by "shoe guru" Llorraine Neithardt. The course, titled "The Art of the Shoe: Bewitched, Bespoked and Bewildered"…

Pratt presents a multi-disciplinary student exhibition inspired by the Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibition season theme of “Design and Sustainability” now through March 10, 2010 in The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery in The Chemistry Building on The Brooklyn Campus. Over 50 students will exhibit work in all media, with $1,000 in cash prizes awarded by…

The Financial Times recently featured Pratt alumni, fashion designers, and husband-and-wife team Seok Won Andy Kim and Won Jeong Debbie Yoon in an article regarding the growing South Korean fashion industry and the emergence of Korean designers at New York Fashion Week. Kim and Yoon launched their clothing line Andy and Debb in…

Time Out New York featured a full-page illustration by digital animation and computer graphics student Jessica Namnum in its Brooklyn vs. Manhattan issue. The illustration accompanied the feature article and includes two New Yorkers holding "Brooklyn" and "Manhattan" necklaces to signify their preferred borough.

Pratt Institute's Departments of Communications Design will present "Crowd Sourcing and Disruption," a panel discussion on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:30 PM in Memorial Hall on Pratt's Brooklyn campus. The panel will address the emergence of crowd sourcing models in the design and communication industries. Crowd sourcing refers to the use of information technology…

Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present "Envelopes," an exhibition that will explore new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. "Envelopes" will feature full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings in the form of drawings and computer animations,…

Time Out New York featured three Pratt events in an article on student film festivals in its current issue on the movies. The magazine listed free public screenings of the best work by students from the Institute's digital arts and film programs that will take place at the end of the Spring 2010…

Pratt digital arts alumnus Luis Acosta won the first-ever contest to design the next New York City condom wrapper. His design features a yellow electronic power button symbol on maroon background. More than 15,000 votes were cast in the contest, which was held by the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to encourage…

Interior Design Magazine recently featured Pratt Manhattan Gallery's "Envelopes" exhibition, which is ongoing at 144 West 14th Street, second floor, through May 5. The exhibition examines relationships between the body, building, and larger environments and explores the relationships between systems as a site for architectural innovation in the 21st century. The work on…

Popular Science featured a lifesaving piece of technology that was developed through a partnership between the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation, Smart Design, Claros Diagnostics, and Columbia University bioengineer Sam Sia. The prototype project, titled "Lab on a Chip," is a two-piece portable package that can diagnose multiple diseases quickly, cheaply, and in remote…

Metropolis Magazine featured Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation project "Solar Ivy" in its March 2010 issue on product designs that have the potential to make a global impact. "Solar Ivy" is an ivy-like design that attaches to the sides of buildings and harnesses solar power. The project concept was developed by alumnus Sam Cochran…

Robin Mollincone, assistant fashion design chair, was quoted in an April 25 article in USA WEEKEND Magazine on spring denim trends. The magazine is printed in more than 700 newspapers with a circulation of 22.6 million and a readership of 48 million every weekend. It is included in New York newspapers New York…

Tula Giannini, Dean of Pratt's School of Information and Library Science, was interviewed for a public radio segment on how libraries are adapting to aid the unemployed in their job searches that aired internationally as part of American Public Media's (APM) Marketplace program on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Giannini was interviewed about the…

The New York Times reporter Cathy Horyn featured graduating Pratt fashion students Devin Cole, Timothy Kuzmeski, and Kasia Wisniewski in her weekly "On The Runway" column in the Sunday Styles section. Horyn was one of a panel of six fashion industry experts and press who helped to pre-select bridal and eveningwear designs that…

Pratt Institute will present Pratt Show 2010, an annual juried exhibition of exceptional design work by over 300 of Pratt's graduating students from May 11-14 at The Manhattan Center located at 311 West 34th Street. The show will be open on Tuesday, May 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, May 12 and Thursday,…

Style.com recently covered Pratt's 2010 fashion runway show honoring renowned designer Catherine Malandrino, which was attended by leading members of the fashion industry, press, and members of the Pratt community, in its "Style File" blog. The show featured women's, men's, evening, bridal, sportswear, and costume designs by 22 graduating seniors in the fashion…

Portions of musician, poet, and performer Patti Smith's 2010 Pratt Commencement remarks were featured on mediabistro.com's UnBeige blog. Smith addressed approximately 1,400 degree recipients, their family, and friends at the Institute's commencement ceremony that took place at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Smith was one of five to receive honorary degrees including…

Metropolis Magazine posted a favorable review of Pratt's International Contemporary Furniture Fair booth collaboration with Herman Miller titled "Empathy for Culture," which challenged graduate and undergraduate students to create modern and innovative furniture, lighting, ceramic, toy, and other design prototypes that explored design as a medium for sharing and integrating unique ideas of…

The New Yorker magazine recently featured a story regarding Pratt's 121st commencement at Radio City Music Hall in its "Talk of the Town" section. The Institute awarded honorary degrees to former New York City Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel; novelist Jonathan Lethem; architect Daniel Libeskind; The Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn Lowry; director…

The New York Times' The Local blog recently posted a story regarding graduating seniors from Pratt's fashion design department. The story examines student thesis work leading up to Pratt's annual fashion runway show, which took place May 13 in Manhattan.

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, an award-winning arts and culture program from Public Radio International and WNYC, recently aired an interview segment with two recent Pratt master of fine arts graduates regarding their artwork that employs techniques from Western art and subject matter that depicts Islamic stories and Pakistani subjects.

New Scientist Magazine recently featured the work of math and science department faculty member and physicist Ágnes Mócsy, who helped to calculate the sound that may have pervaded the universe just after the big bang. The sound, an eerie drone, is the result of a fireball of small particles called quarks and gluons…

Acting Fashion Design Chair Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman was quoted in a recent USA Weekend story regarding textural embellishments in fashion. For the full story, please click here.

The Washington Post featured recent industrial design department graduate Sarah Waxman in a Sunday, June 13 article about consumerism and design.

Waxman was featured for a project titled "Momento Comburo (Reminder of Consumption)" that was exhibited as part of Pratt Institute and Herman Miller's "Empathy for Culture" booth at the International…

The Wall Street Journal Magazine quoted Pratt Industrial Design Professor Bruce Hannah on the impact of Swatch brand watches in the watch industry in an article on Swatch Group chairman Nicolas Hayek. 

The New York Times featured an excerpt of Patti Smith's 2010 commencement remarks in an article on college graduation speeches that were delivered by noted thinkers, artists, authors, journalists, and politicians. The article also features video of Smith's full remarks.

Interior Design Magazine online recently highlighted Pratt Institute and North Carolina-based furniture manufacturer Cabot Wrenn's "The Pratt Institute Chair," a design that was created by a four-person faculty-student team to celebrate Pratt's reputation as one of the nation's largest and most prestigious independent colleges of art and design. The stunning chair, handcrafted by…

A Fast Company blog post highlights 2010 Pratt architecture graduate Danielle Pecora's be-B: Braille Education Ball design, which recently was selected by DESIGN 21 as the first place winner in its Game Changers Competition. The competition challenged participants to create a game design which aims to improve lives or inspire new behaviors. Pecora's…

Communication Arts Magazine featured a Pratt MFA student in a column on motivation titled "In Response to 'Just Do It.'" The student, whom column author Wendy Richmond met at this past spring's M.F.A. Open Studios, shares her thoughts on what motivates her in the July/August 2010 issue on newsstands now.

Pratt and Barnes & Noble's 2010 "Back to Campus" collection is featured in the "Best Bets" section of the August 2 issue of New York Magazine. This is the second year in a row that Pratt has partnered with Barnes & Noble to design journals, notebooks, sketchbooks, and pencil cases that are available…

Fashion Week Daily highlighted Legends 2010, a scholarship benefit honoring fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger; artist and alumnus Ellsworthy Kelly, who graduated from Pratt in 1944; and philanthropist and patron of the arts Emily Fisher Landau; in an August 9 post. Legends 2010 will take place on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 7 World…

Pratt recently teamed with modern home furnishings retailer west elm to introduce the Pratt Home Office collection, an eco-friendly office collection created in collaboration with the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation. To check out TreeHugger.com's coverage of the collaboration, including great images of the five-piece collection, click here.

The Hollywood Reporter recently featured Rob O'Neill, Acting Director of Pratt's Digital Arts Lab, in an August 20 article on animation professors who provide mentorship to the next generation of animators at their home institutions. O'Neill teaches an undergraduate studio class and an advanced technical elective in Pratt's Digital Arts Program. To view the article,…

Pratt Math and Science Professor Eleonora Del Federico was featured in an August 26 Science News article on new techniques for identifying oil stains on old documents and art works.

Pratt School of Architecture Dean Thomas Hanrahan was quoted in an August 30 Wall Street Journal article regarding planned skyscraper development near the Empire State building and its impact on the Manhattan skyline.

Pratt's Graduate Design Guild and Barnes & Noble will present an exhibition of student design work, including Pratt student-designed items from Barnes & Noble's 2010 and 2009 "Back to Campus" collections, from September 8 through October 7, 2010 in the Graduate Communications Design Gallery located on the seventh floor of Pratt's Manhattan Campus…

Pratt fashion design professor Adrienne Jones was quoted in a September 10 article in USA Weekend Magazine regarding the high-waisted Fall fashion trend. To read the full article, please click here.

The print edition of USA Weekend is included in more than 700 newspapers across the country with a readership of 48 million…

News12 Brooklyn will feature a report from Pratt's Rose Garden in their 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, and 7:30 p.m. newscasts regarding The Office of International Affair's first annual barbecue held today in celebration of Chuseok, the Korean "Thanksgiving," and the Moon festival, a Chinese holiday. Brooklynites are encouraged to tune in to News12 tonight through…

Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents "You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City," an exhibition of work by a selection of contemporary artists that will map the emotional terrain of the world's most famous and influential urban center, New York City, and explore…

News12 Brooklyn will feature a report on a collaboration between Pratt Institute and modern home furnishings retailer West Elm to design an eco-friendly home office collection in its 8 and 10:30 p.m. newscasts. Pratt industrial design faculty member Robert Langhorne, who led the two groups of participating industrial design students as the project's design director,…

Fine arts department faculty member Robbin Ami Silverberg was featured in a September 18 Wall Street Journal article regarding her work as a book artist. Silverberg, who teaches papermaking at Pratt, is also exhibiting her work in a group show a Pratt Manhattan Gallery titled "You Are Here --> Mapping the Psychogeography of…

Academic Director of Sustainability Debera Johnson and recent communications design graduate Susana Galarza are featured in a column on "design thinking" in the September/October issue of Communication Arts Magazine. Johnson is featured for her role in arranging a summit to be held on Pratt campus that will bring representatives from 40 independent colleges of art…

Cool Hunting blog recently highlighted Pratt Manhattan Gallery's "You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City" exhibition, which includes work by a selection of contemporary artists that map the emotional terrain of the world's most famous and influential urban center, New York City, and explore the effect of the city's…

Pratt Institute celebrates a quarter century of The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, a forum for student and faculty shows and a center for visits by guest critics, with an anniversary exhibition highlighting six memorable and influential past shows. "Schafler@25" will be on display through January 21, 2011 and is free and open to the…

Surface Magazine has featured work by recent Pratt graduates in its December "Avant Guardian" issue, which is on newsstands now. Recent graduates from Pratt's architecture, fashion design, and industrial design programs are represented in the magazine's annual "Thesis Guide" and recent fashion design graduates Jeff Dodd, David J. Krause, and Nina Zilka are highlighted in…

The New York Times recently featured Pratt's "1702 -- Living Laboratory" project in its quarterly Education Life section. Please click here to view the feature online.

The Times featured images of a typical residence hall room in Willoughby Hall and compared them with images of room 1702, a "green" residence hall room…

History of Art and Design Chair Steven Zucker was featured in a Huffington Post article on the technological developments in the field of art history. In 2005, Zucker, along with fellow art historian Dr. Beth Harris, developed an art history website titled "Smarthistory" that serves as a free, not-for-profit multi-media web book that is designed…

The New York Times' November 18 Streetscapes column featured The Caroline Ladd Pratt House with regard to its historic status as a former residence of the Pratt family. The column detailed the move of a younger generation of Pratts during the early 20th century to Manhattan from Brooklyn. To read more about the Pratt family…

The New York Times recently interviewed Pratt film program alumni Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who served as co-directors of the feature film "I Love You Phillip Morris" starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Ficarra and Requa dedicated the film to their screenwriting teacher and mentor at Pratt, Paul Corrigan, who also served as inspiration…

Pratt alumna and Park Slope artist Martha Walker's metal sculptures will be featured in an upcoming movie titled "The Art of Love," according to The New York Daily News. The sculptures will be featured as the work of an artist played by actress Olympia Dukakis. The film, which is expected to open in…

Women's Wear Daily recently featured Pratt and Ralph Pucci International's collaboration to adorn Pucci's new "GIRL 2" mannequins in designs made entirely of paper. The "Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci" presentation in Pucci's Gallery Nine Showroom was enhanced by four paper sculpture pieces and a mural design, also by Pratt students. Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, chair…

WNBC featured the Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci project on its fashion news program "Thread NY" that airs on New York Nonstop, a 24-hour entertainment-oriented news service broadcasting on a digital television subchannel of the station. The designs were created by fashion design, fine arts, industrial design, and interior design students from the School…

The New York Times recently quoted Industrial Design Professor Bruce Hannah in a front page Home Section story on coffee tables injuries suffered by small children. Hannah discussed properties of the typical coffee table and provided examples of glass-top, wood, and wire-base tables by well-known designers to better explore how children interact with…

Pratt's new six-story, 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building was recently featured as a linked story on BusinessWeek's Business Exchange website. The building, named Myrtle Hall, is located between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street and houses the college's Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices.

Designed by the New York…

Pratt Institute is featured in a New York Daily News real estate section on the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The section, titled "Your Home," is published on Fridays and details various neighborhoods throughout the city.

Within the section, Pratt is credited as being Clinton Hill's cultural and physical "anchor" in an article highlighting the…

Women's Wear Daily recently ran a story in its "Fashion Scoops" section on Pratt's announcement of its 2011 Fashion Icon Award Honoree Hamish Bowles. To read the story, please click here.

Bowles, who serves as Vogue's European Editor at Large, will be honored at Pratt's annual fashion runway show at 6 p.m. on…

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently highlighted Pratt student work that was on display in the windows of Macy's Herald Square on Broadway between 34th and 35th Streets. Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, acting chair of the the Fashion Design Department, and students Dana Otto (Industrial Design, '11) and KC Weakley (Interior Design, '11), were quoted…

A recent New York Times Sunday Styles section featured a photograph of Pratt fashion design senior Ruby Gertz at the Young Menswear Association Fashion Scholarship Fund awards dinner. Gertz was one of four students out of eight finalists and 195 candidates to receive a $25,000 scholarship at the dinner, which was held January 11…

The Architect's Newspaper highlighted Pratt's new six-story, 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building in a January 25 post. The building, named Myrtle Hall, is located between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street and houses the college's Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices.

Designed by the New York City…

Deb Johnson, Pratt's academic director of sustainability, was recently interviewed about the latest developments at Pratt's Center for Sustainable Design Studies and Research and in sustainability education in The Living Principles blog.

The Living Principles framework weaves environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability into an actionable, integrated approach that can be consistently communicated…

The New York Times recently cited Pratt faculty member David Kim as one of 12 to take part in an ongoing performance art piece, titled Identical Lunch, which has been performed internationally and documented since 1968. The lunch, which took place at The Museum of Modern Art, paid tribute to an idea started by artist…

Graduate communications/package design student Ekta Mody and undergraduate communications design student Liz Yam and Jeremy Alan Pinsonneault were included in GDUSA's  feature “Students to Watch in 2011.” To read more about Ekta, click here. To read more about Liz, click here. To read more about Jeremy, click here.

The Financial Times magazine recently quoted Pratt Fine Arts Professor Frank Lind on the work of courtroom sketch artist and Pratt alumna Marilyn Church. Church studied fine arts at Pratt and started working as a courtroom sketch artist in 1973. She has covered some of New York's most high-profile trials and her portfolio…

The Boston Globe profiled Pratt fashion design student Ruby Gertz in its Thursday, February 24 edition. Gertz, a native of Melrose, Mass., spoke about her work and receiving one of four prestigious $25,000 Fashion Scholarship Fund Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards.

A School of Information and Library Science (SILS) project led by faculty member David Walczyk was mentioned in a recent Huffington Post article. Walczyk and students researched ways redesign a searchable database of world-changing ideas submitted by an international group of designers and social innovators in conjunction with the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI).…

The New York Times features Pratt in a February 15 story about the Institute's new green building, Myrtle Hall, and its role in the revitalization of Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. The story focuses on Pratt's role in investing in the commercial strip and quotes Pratt President Thomas F. Schutte about Pratt's relationship with Myrtle Avenue. Please click here to…

WHO: Pratt Institute Office of International Affairs (OIA) and members of the Pratt community. The OIA anticipates 300 members of the community will attend the annual event, where student volunteers represent their countries by cooking a national dish. The event is open to the public.  
 
WHAT: Pratt Institute's Office of International Affairs will…

Costume historian Daniel James Cole, who teaches fashion history at Pratt, was quoted in a March 1 China Daily article about the use of political symbols such as images of Che Guevara and Mao Zedong in fashion.

Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design Studies will host a series of exhibitions, films, forums, and lectures as part of Green Week 2011 now through Friday, April 2. All Green Week events take place on the Brooklyn Campus and are free and open to the public. To view the full schedule, please click