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Two men pose together at a crowded indoor event, likely an art or fashion gathering. The man on the left wears a patchwork leather jacket in shades of brown, gold, and burgundy, with a bold oversized hat made of layered fabrics in warm tones. He smiles warmly and has a trimmed beard. The man on the right, dressed in all black with long dark hair, has a calm expression. The background is filled with people chatting under ambient purple lighting in a tall, gallery-like space with exposed beams and high ceilings.

Runway Ready: Pratt Fashion Seniors Shine at Powerhouse Arts

The 2025 Pratt Shows: Fashion runway presentation featured nearly 160 looks from collections by 30 graduating seniors; Haeone Son, BFA Fashion Design ’25, received the 2025 Christopher Hunte “On Point” Award.

Pratt students volunteering at the Greenbelt Native Plant Center.

Undergraduate Industrial Design

Student Inspiration for Biocentric Design Blooms at Plant Nursery

Pratt students weave ideas of sustainability and care into their Industrial Design capstone projects.

Graduate Industrial Design

Industrial Designer and Educator Ignacio Urbina Polo Named Chair of Industrial Design

Ignacio Urbina Polo has been appointed chair of industrial design in Pratt Institute’s School of Design. He assumes the role on July 1, 2022. Urbina is a distinguished industrial designer and a tenured professor at Pratt where he…

Fashion

Homecoming Show Marks Pratt Fashion’s Long-Awaited Return to the Runway

For the first time since 2019, the annual runway show spotlighting the graduating fashion students returned to an in-person event. Themed on Homecoming, this year’s Pratt Shows: Fashion curated showcase was held in Building 77 at the…

Woody Wei, BID ’22, sharing his Robot in a Box-inspired kit with middle school students at NYC FIRST (photo by Steve Turbek)

School of Design

DIY Robots that Share Storytelling and STEM Learning

Using circuit boards, coding, and stories from fairy tales and fantasy, Pratt Institute undergraduate industrial design students recently engaged middle school students in robotics through STEM learning kits. One by Thyan Zou, BID ’22, references Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little…

Students learning drapery and construction at Pratt in 2021

Fashion

Alumna Jane Nord Creates Pratt’s First Named Professorship to Cultivate the Next Generation of Fashion Designers

Through the generosity of alumna Jane B. Nord, Pratt Institute announces its first named professorship. The $3.5 million-dollar rotating endowed professorship position will be for a faculty member in the School of Design’s Department of Fashion. It will…

Illustration of Bethesda Fountain in Central Park by illustration student Phoebe Liu, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’23 (courtesy the artist)

School of Design

Capturing the Ephemeral Beauty of a Fall Day in Central Park

On a fall day in Central Park, Pratt Institute students got hands-on experience using illustration to communicate a time and place. As an extension of the Drawing on Location class led by Veronica Lawlor, adjunct professor-CCE of undergraduate…

Students on campus for the fall 2021 semester

Film/Video

In Mentoring Programs Students Learn to Support Each Other Now and in the Future

Mentorship can offer guidance, connections, and encouragement for students to go forward with their ambitions and visions for the future. Across Pratt Institute, students are taking leadership roles in creating and developing mentoring programs that support their needs,…

Graduate Industrial Design

Industrial Design Alumni Karen Stone, Chen Chen, and Kai Williams Honored at 2021 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards

The 2021 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards held virtually on August 12 honored the outstanding achievements and design leadership of three Pratt Institute alumni. Karen Stone, MID ’94 and adjunct associate professor-CCE of industrial design, received the 2021 Rowena…

School of Design

Scooter Shares and Anxiety Alerts: Industrial Design Students Prototype for Better Health

The shortcomings of medical care and potential improvements for health services are the challenges investigated by Pratt Institute students in the medical prototypes class led by Jeffrey Kapec, adjunct professor of industrial design. Each student considers a product…