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Dwell Magazine Profiles Industrial Design Faculty Member and Alumna Lucia DeRespinis

Dwell magazine recently profiled Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design Lucia DeRespinis (B.I.D. ’52) and her distinguished design and teaching career. The story by Kelsey Keith highlights DeRespinis’ education at Pratt—where she was one of three women in the graduating class…

Graduate Communications Design

Pratt Presents Concludes Fall Season with Language and Culture Event at Schomburg Center

The Institute’s fall series of Pratt Presents public programs concluded on December 15 with a conversation and interactive installation exploring the intersection of language and culture at New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The evening…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence 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 a recently released annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI), a monthly architecture and design journal. The rankings are…

Graduate Industrial Design

White House Honors Alumna Ruth Lande Shuman with Prestigious Youth Program Award

Ruth Lande Shuman (M.I.D. ’89) received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for her nonprofit organization Publicolor at an awards ceremony at the White House on November 10. First Lady Michelle Obama presented Shuman with the award, which…

Graduate Interior Design

SOFA CHICAGO Art and Design Fair Features Work by Senior Interior Design Students

From November 6-9, students from Pratt’s Senior Interior Design Studio class participated in SOFA CHICAGO (Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design), an annual art and design fair that draws 35,000 visitors from the United States and abroad. The…

Fashion

White House Invites Faculty to Lead Fashion Education Workshop in Wearable Technology

Led by Debera Johnson, executive director of Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA), a select group of research fellows and students traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in the first-ever White House Fashion Education Workshop on October 8.

Graduate Communications Design

Student Winners in Pratt/Hennessy V.S Competition Join Artist Shepard Fairey for Panel in LA

This summer, two communications design students were given the opportunity to discuss their work with renowned street artist Shepard Fairey and other art world leaders. The students, Eduardo Palma (M.F.A. Communications Design ’15) and Lillian Ling (M.F.A. Communications Design ’15)…

Architecture

MAD Biennial Exhibition Includes Work by Pratt Alumni, Faculty, and Trustees

Pratt alumni, faculty, and trustees are featured in the Museum of Arts and Design's (MAD) inaugural NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial exhibition, which showcases work of 100 makers from across New York City's five boroughs. The exhibition will be on…

Graduate Industrial Design

MADE@PRATT: A 3D-Woven Chair

For his graduate thesis project, Justin Crocker (M.I.D. '14) created a chair using a three-dimensional structural weaving technique he developed with the help of digital tools. He initially tested the technique by creating a series of small woven…

Graduate Communications Design

Student Winners of Third Annual Pratt/Hennessy V.S Competition Head to Los Angeles

As part of an ongoing collaboration between Pratt Institute and Hennessy V.S, the world’s top cognac brand, nine Pratt students from a variety of disciplines were challenged to create works of art influenced by Hennessy’s mantra, “Never stop. Never…