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Interior Design Students Create Installation for DIFFA’s Dining by Design New York Event

Students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department created a unique tabletop installation for Dining by Design 2016, an event held by the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) from March 17-21. The annual event, which runs concurrently with the Architectural…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Graduate Communications Design

What’s in a Logo? The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Controversial Logo Redesign

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) recently redesigned its logo to much criticism in the press. Pratt Institute’s Communications Design faculty member Graham Hanson, president and chief creative director at GHD, discusses the rationale behind these types of rebranding efforts…

Graduate Interior Design

Graduate Interior Design Students Win CONNECT Competition at 2015 SOFA CHICAGO Fair

Graduate interior design students and faculty from Pratt Institute competed for the third consecutive year at the SOFA CHICAGO (Sculptural Objects Functional Art + Design) CONNECT competition and won first place for the second time, tying with the University of…

Graduate Communications Design

Fourth Annual Pratt/Hennessy V.S Competition Displays Student Work in Pop-Up Gallery

Christiana Theophanopolus (M.F.A. Communications Design ’16) was named the winner of the fourth annual Pratt Institute/Hennessy V.S competition for her work entitled, “Meraki.” As part of an ongoing collaboration between Pratt Institute and leading cognac brand Hennessy V.S, 15 students from…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence Survey Ranks Pratt Design Programs among Best in Nation

Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country, according to America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2016, the newest edition of the annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI),…

Architecture

NASA Project Collaboration Inspires Students to Create Habitat for Travel to Mars

In a challenge presented by NASA, Pratt students are being inspired to address design concerns related to space travel. For an interdisciplinary studio class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture Michael Morris and Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design…

Graduate Interior Design

Noguchi Museum Features Work by Pratt Interior Design Students

An exhibition of Isamu Noguchi-inspired work by 30 Pratt graduate interior design students is on display at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens through June 28. The work was created as part of the “Interior Design Graduate Level…

Graduate Industrial Design

Award-Winning Designer Constantin Boym Named Chair of Industrial Design Department

Designer Constantin Boym has been named Industrial Design chair within Pratt Institute’s School of Design. He will assume the role on July 13, 2015, succeeding Scott Lundberg, who has served as interim chair since fall 2014. Boym is founder of…

Graduate Communications Design

Pratt Presents Series Features Phillip Tiongson and Justin Hendrix in Conversation

Pratt Institute and NYC Media Lab recently presented “Design, Technology, and the Future,” an evening featuring interaction designer Phillip Tiongson, principal and creative director at Potion Design Studio, in conversation with Justin Hendrix, executive director of NYC Media Lab. The…