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…
Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61 St. James Place
Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture will present a lecture by Kevin Daly as part of its spring 2013 lecture series on Thursday, March 28 at 6PM in Higgins Hall Auditorium at 61 St. James Place on Pratt's Brooklyn campus.…
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