Graduate Communications Design

Pratt Institute’s Graduate Communications & Packaging Design department began as this nation’s first Master’s-level visual communications program. The department has always aimed at creating leaders in the visual communications & design industry. From it’s inception, our degree program has provided students with the skills to use the most effective media to express ideas, but the focus has always been on creative problem solving. Many of our students come here to further their career in the design industry, or begin a journey towards design education. For every student, graduate school provides the opportunity to develop and refine their design process and creative skills leading to professional competence and leadership. But first and foremost, graduate school is a time for each individual to discover his design voice.

The department’s faculty includes highly regarded professional designers, authors, marketing and media specialists, who are associated with some of New York’s most creative firms and prestigious companies. Several faculty have written pivotal design books, and many have been been honored with design awards and articles from the AIGA, Print Magazine, Communication Arts Magazine, Eye Magazine, and The Art Directors Club. The faculty members are important contacts who introduce their students to the latest industry trends and technologies and whose varied areas of expertise allow students to explore many avenues of design and social issues, such as digital media, design ethics, and environmentally-conscious packaging.

Faculty biographies can be viewed here: gradcomd.pratt.edu/gradcomd_faculty.html.
Our student blog is located here: www.prattgradcomd.com.

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There are three 48-credit majors available:

Master of Science in Communications Design deals with all aspects of transforming information and ideas into visual forms. Course work involves a wide range of verbal and visual language systems. Design projects relate to extensive communications applications involving various aspects of society. Representative solutions utilize graphic design, corporate identity, publications design, computer graphics, and typography.

Master of Science in Communications Design with an emphasis in Digital Design combines graphic design and time-based media. This emphasis requires a significant level of conceptual and technical competence in order to meet the demands of courses that utilize advanced computer-based technologies.

Master of Science in Package Design offers a broadly based curriculum centered on the decision-making process for new product/package development, featuring courses in packaging design, brand development, visual communications, digital technology, marketing, and form.

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Graduate Communications Design Department
144 West 14th St
New York, NY 10011
212 647 7573

The Kerning Point, our student blog: www.prattgradcomd.com
Faculty biographies can be viewed here: gradcomd.pratt.edu/gradcomd_faculty.html

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