School of Design

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Work by Fiona Conlon, BFA ’19

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A student wearing safety goggles and earplugs at work in a workshop. Tools are around them. A Tool Library where they can check out tools is in the background.

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A Wooden Side Table Inspired by Paper by Xinda (Parker) Wang, MID ’22

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At Pratt, we believe that design at its best is a force for good: it connects, enables, sustains, empowers, and humanizes. Across four undergraduate programs and four graduate programs, we explore the expansiveness of this idea. As a student here, you’ll design messages, objects, spaces, and systems, and discover the power of your practice—to creatively change the world you’re in and the world around you.

Departments

Fashion Design

multiple models, standing in a large industrial room, at a perspective of 2 feet away, with models wearing designs from students

Graduate Communications Design

Industrial Design

a detail photograph of a metal frame of a bench with slats running across it.

Interior Design

Undergraduate Communications Design

Graphic design with neon colors. A sleeping, naked woman floats amongst an array of different items like plants, posters, alarm clocks and other objects in abstract forms.

SoD Co-Design

A workshop in a classroom setting, with participants seated at tables and engaged in a project. In the foreground, a diverse group of students listens attentively to a presenter who is gesturing towards a screen displaying a slide titled "What does a door do?" Various craft supplies are scattered on the tables. The room features bright lighting and walls decorated with colorful artwork.

Undergraduate Programs

Graduate Programs

News from the School of Design

A student is adjusting a large black machine in a workshop, wearing headphones and a T-shirt dusted with particles. On the right side, a close-up of a robotic tool extruding clay into a wavy shape. The background shows a workspace filled with various materials and equipment.

Mill, Melt, Press, Shape

From Prattfolio

During the busy weeks at the end of last spring semester, Prattfolio caught up with five students working across mediums in Pratt’s shops and labs.
A smiling individual with short black hair and glasses sits on a stool in a workshop. Their right hand is reaching towards a small wooden bowl on a work table filled with various art supplies and materials. Large windows in the background allow natural light into the space.

Knit, Turn, Rivet, Mold

From Prattfolio

Chanbin Im, BID ’25, has used her love of making and tools as a jumping-off point into all kinds of fabrication.
A cheerful designer and a performer pose in front of a “Studio 8H” sign. The performer is wearing a playful black-and-white striped dress with green tulle trim, styled like Beetlejuice, while the designer wears black and smiles broadly.

For SNL Costume Maker Sam Bennett ’07, Spooky Season Is Full of Inspiration

From Prattfolio

Gothic design, dark comedy, fall festivities: Prattfolio catches up with Saturday Night Live’s costume supervisor to see what’s fueling him creatively.
More School of Design News
Work by Elie Romero, BFA ’19

We teach makers how to think, and critical thinkers how to make.

Design is a process that connects people to the world in which they operate with an aim toward making it better. For us, better can be more sustainable, more beautiful, more responsible, more inclusive—at best, it’s all of those things. When you step into the Design Center at Pratt, you’ll see this diverse practice at work in a space that brings all of our disciplines together under one roof.

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