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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
History of Art and Design Chair Steven Zucker was featured in a New York Daily News article on the technological developments in the field of art history. In 2005, Zucker, along with fellow art historian Dr. Beth Harris,…
The New York Observer quoted Pratt Professor Anthony Caradonna in a March 22 story on the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS gala, which celebrates elaborate dining environments created by interior designers, event planners, architects, and fashion designers. Caradonna led…
Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will speak as part of the 17th annual Pratt Institute President's Lecture Series at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Memorial Hall Auditorium on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus. Soderbergh's lecture, titled "Fresh Direct," will be…
Interior Design Magazine highlighted a panel discussion with renowned designers Todd Bracher (B.I.D. '96), Mark Goetz (B.I.D. '86), and Dror Benshetrit titled "After Class: The First Steps of the American Designer" in a March 14 post. The panel…
USA Today quoted Sheila Pepe, a professor of fine arts and installation artist as well as a special assistant to the Dean in the School of Art and Design, in a March 16 article on visual artists who are exploring…
The Creative Arts Therapy Department will present "Senses," an art and dance show designed to explore how art and dance therapists-in-training employ the senses, on Friday, April 29 in East Building, 3rd Floor on the Brooklyn campus. The show will…
indieWIRE recently highlighted a talk delivered by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh as part of the 17th Annual Pratt Institute President's Lecture Series. Please click here to read the full story.
Pratt's new green building, Myrtle Hall, was featured in the March 2011 education issue of Contract magazine, a commercial interior design and architecture publication. The story focuses on New York-based architecture firm WASA/Studio A's building design and quotes Pratt President…
The New York Times featured photos of Pratt Institute students who participated in a Pratt Fashion Round Table Event in the Education Life section of its Sunday, April 17 print edition and on The New York Times website. The Fashion…
WHAT: Industrial Design master's degree candidates from Pratt Institute's Department of Industrial Design will present over 20 thesis projects to the public in an exhibit that will be celebrated with an opening reception from 6-8 PM on May 7th at…
NBC came to Pratt's Brooklyn campus and toured Pratt's green residence hall room in Willoughby Hall with Anita Cooney, chair of the Interior Design department, and toured Myrtle Hall with Jaime Stein, who spoke about the School of Architecture's Urban…
The Wall Street Journal featured an article that chronicled Pratt's annual 12-hour drawing marathon event in its Monday, April 18 edition. Please click here to read the full story.The Draw-A-Thon, which is hosted by the Foundation Art…
Pratt industrial design students Selim Benhabib and Taehoon Kim were recently featured on MSN Autos in a post on innovative student automotive designs, titled "Cars of the Future." The post details Benhabib and Kim's senior thesis project, which envisions an…
Women's Wear Daily quoted 2011 Pratt Fashion Icon Award recipient and Vogue European Editor at Large Hamish Bowles in an April 29 article. The article quoted Bowles on how it felt to receive the award and included quotes from Diane…
Thread NY, WNBC's fashion news program and blog, previewed the 2011 Pratt Fashion Show by featuring interviews with graduating students from the Department of Fashion Design during the final fittings that took place at Pratt's Manhattan Campus. The program revisited…
New York Magazine featured the collections by three award-winning fashion design students -- MaRu Jung, Dara N. Rosen, and Gianna Lucci -- in a recent post. The work was captured at Pratt's 2011 Fashion Show, which was held…
Azure Magazine recently highlighted student furniture designs that were on display as part of the 2011 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. The work was designed by graduate and undergraduate students from Pratt's Department of Industrial Design in collaboration with…
Pratt fashion design students MaRu Jung (B.F.A. Fashion '11), Juan Carlos Pozo (B.F.A. '12), and Matthew Bruch (B.F.A. Fashion '12), were featured on Beautiful Stranger, a style website featuring looks from the street. Jung, who received the 2011…
The New York Daily News quoted Pratt Director of Career Services Judy Nylen in a May 22 article on what college graduates need to know when moving to New York City. Nylen, who helps Pratt students and graduates find jobs…
HOW Magazine recently featured the winning design from the 7th Annual Umbra | Pratt Design Competition. The magazine's coverage included a quote from Concetta Stewart, dean of Pratt's School of Art and Design, and detailed first place winner Jeff Rubio's…
Inhabitat recently highlighted the Pratt Incubator for Sustainable Innovation, which supports the entrepreneurial talents of designers, artists, and architects -- including several Pratt alumni -- by providing them with resources to launch businesses. The Incubator has added nine new companies…
Pratt Communications Design Faculty Member Rob Kimmel authored an article in the July 2011 issue of HOW Magazine on activities that incorporate play and creativity into parenting young children. Kimmel, who teaches graphic design, brings this playful teaching attitude to…
Interior Design Faculty Member Julie Torres Moskowitz was interviewed by Brownstoner blog about her work, career, the future of green design in Brooklyn. Moskowitz, who founded Fabrica 718, an environmentally-conscious architecture firm based in Brooklyn, was one of…
Surface Magazine featured recent graduates Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings on the cover of its August 2011 issue. The two were photographed for a preview of fall menswear designs during this May's New York Design Week and were featured for…
Pratt Institute was featured in a four-page spread in the July 4, 2011 issue of Social Life Magazine. The spread provided an overview of Pratt's reputation as a leader among colleges of art and design and highlighted particular areas and…
Former Industrial Design Chair Alexander Kostellow (1898-1954) was profiled in the September 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car magazine for his role in shaping Pratt's industrial design curriculum and aligning the Institute with top automotive firms, which resulted in notable…
Inhabitat blog recently highlighted student proposals for urban rooftop farms from a design/build studio in Pratt's Environmental Systems Management Program. To read the full store, click here.
A Forbes online columnist recently posted on the inaugural Core77 Design Awards, highlighting a submission by a group of master's degree candidates from Pratt's Design Management Program that looks at the process of innovation in design.
A Fast Company image slideshow on a computer programming marathon in The Hamptons for women included Izzy Johnston, an independent software developer and current student in Pratt's School of Information and Library Science.
The September issue of Architectural Digest announces the magazine's list of top 10 college campuses nationwide with the best architecture. Pratt was included on this list along with the University of Virginia, Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, Brown University,…
The New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece on the commercialization of surfing in New York by Thad Ziolkowski, who directs Pratt's Writing Program and who is author of the memoir On A Wave (Grover Press, 2003). Click
ArchDaily, one of the world's leading architecture websites, featured "Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture," a new exhibition presented by Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Latin Pratt in a September 3 post. The exhibition highlights contemporary architecture…
Fashionista, a fashion news site that is read by over 1 million readers per month, recently ranked Pratt Institute's fashion design program third in the country following Parsons, The New School for Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. According…
Art in America featured an 8-page feature on Fine Arts Alumna and Painter Carrie Moyer in its September issue. Moyer, who graduated from Pratt with a bachelor of fine art's degree in 1985, was interviewed in her Brooklyn studio about…
Metropolis Magazine profiled architecture alumnus Jun Aizaki in a September 9 post, interviewing him on his early successes and bright future as a designer. Aizaki, who started at Rockwell Group's New York office and who now runs his…
ARTnews featured cover art by Artist, Author, and Communications Design Alumnus Daniel Clowes in its October issue titled "Where Art Meets Comics." The cover art is taken from "Ghost World," a comic that was authored and illustrated by Clowes in…
Architecture and Industrial Design Alumna Lara Knutson's Nebula Necklace was featured on the cover of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Design Store's fall catalog. Knutson's design work is inspired by bioluminescence, iridescence, and things reflective in nature. Her Nebula…
The Wall Street Journal featured Pratt alumnus and pop-up book artist Robert Sabuda in its October 1 edition, calling him the "reigning prince of pop-up books." The article describes how Sabuda, who has published 33 pop-up books in the past…
New York Magazine quoted Gita Nandan, a visiting assistant professor in Pratt's School of Architecture, in its fall design issue. Nandan, who was one of a dozen design experts quoted in the magazine's survey of recent urban inventions,…
The Atlantic Magazine recently quoted Christopher X J. Jensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Math and Science, in an article on evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, whose reputation has been founded primarily on his study of ants and…
Vanity Fair interviewed internationally-acclaimed designer Marc Rosen, a Pratt Institute professor and alumnus, in an October 12 post on its beauty blog. Rosen was interviewed about iconic perfume bottle design, which he writes about in the recently published "Glamour Icons:…
The Early Show on CBS, a nationally broadcast news program with 2.4 million viewers, interviewed Pratt Art and Design Dean Concetta Stewart and industrial design students Hailey O'Connor and James Ian Killinger at Pratt's Brooklyn Campus on October 7. The…
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