SCPS PRODUCTION CORNER
Mission
More than classes: Production Corner is a hub for creative expression where a global community of makers, thinkers, and builders converge. Featuring works by Pratt SCPS students/alumni, faculty, and staff, Production Corner aims to build a pipeline that accurately reflects the emerging and established art and design practices of our thriving community members.
A place to find inspiration, talent, and collaboration, we invite you to check Production Corner regularly for new posts, or use the handy search filters to discover a curated view of compelling content.
Pratt SCPS courses merge tactile learning with discourse and technology, producing a ripe environment for creative output. Every semester, participants of all walks of life enroll in project-based classes to hone contemporary and classical skills that are readily transferable to industry for career, or personal growth.
ADAR: Architecture Summer Intensive
This immersive course explores the core concepts of architectural thinking and 3D design processes. Develop spatial reasoning through interactive studio exercises and virtual 3D modeling. Explore architectural design’s impact through interdisciplinary lenses, from urban planning and AI to sustainability and curatorial practices. Engage in hands-on projects, sketching, drafting, and model building to connect environmental questions to today’s challenges. Gain a solid understanding of architectural principles and professional practices, setting the stage for future studies or a career in the field.
Dr. Christoph a. Kumpusch, SCPS Instructor
Light Pavilion
The Light Pavilion is a public space. It is an urban structure that arises from opportunity to balance the geo-political specificity that comes at the intersection of public space, real estate development and architecture.
Location: Chengdu, China
Project Year: 2013
Medium: ADAR: Architecture Summer Intensive
Project Team: Christoph a. Kumpusch, Lebbeus Woods, Jackie Luk, Tz-Li Lin 7,000 SF Structural Engineering: China Academy of Building Research MEP & Fire Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Developer: Raffles City, Singapore Client: CapitaLand Development Light Consultant: L’Observatoire International
Website/Social: www.kumpusch.com;
www.detail-kultur.com;
www.mutating-cities.com
www.xtr-lab.com
Adobe After Effects
Adobe InDesign is the leading layout design software for print and digital media. Explore the vast capabilities of InDesign and develop portfolio pieces focused on composition, typography, and publication design.
Sebastian Sagastume, SCPS Instructor
Adobe After Effects Project Showcase
I made this promo video to get my students excited about the project’s we’d be working on throughout the course. I walk my students through how to make them from scratch. Not all projects featured in this video are made during class, depending on how I gauge the class is performing overall, and whether or not time allows for some of the bonus projects. That being said, students have access to all of the project files which they can dig into and learn by example.
Medium: Adobe After Effects
Website/Social: sebsaga.com
linkedin.com/in/sebastian-sagastume
@seb.saga (Instagram)
Book Illustration: Picture Book
Learn the art of illustrating a story idea and how to make your artwork in the versatile picture book format. Concentrate on elements that can help you develop the tools you need. Learn about the business and the physical process of creating a picture book. Topics covered include character development, art continuity, setting, pacing and rhythm, layout and structure, finding and polishing an art style, and knowing your audience. The course will involve home assignments, some in-class art exercises, critique, and class discussion. All to help you succeed in this exciting form of illustration. Please note that students will need to purchase additional supplies for this course.
Steve Henry, SCPS Instructor
Illustrations for FRIENDS ARE FUN
Book Illustration: Picture Book
Illustrations for FRIENDS ARE FUN, by Steve Henry. The book was named a Best Book of 2025 by SLJ (School Library Journal).
Book Illustration: The Picture Book class is the art of illustrating a story, and learning how to create a picture book. The artwork in this book is created with ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic paint. All art media and technique is accepted in this class.
Website/Social: stevehenryillustration.com Instagram: @stevehenryart
Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design
The Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design course is a specialized course that focuses on the principles of design in the context of cosmetic products and their visual presentation. The purpose of this course is to train students to design and execute effective visual merchandising strategies that will enhance the aesthetic appeal of cosmetic products in retail spaces.
Allen Wilpon, SCPS Instructor
Lipstick Launch Tester/Display
This class provides an overview of the cosmetics and beauty industry, focusing on visual merchandising design principles and techniques. Students will learn about the importance of creating visually appealing displays, understanding consumer behavior, and how to effectively communicate brand messages through visual merchandising. Enjoy and have Fun.
Create Your Own Comics: Get Started with Sequential Storytelling
Do you love comics and have always wanted to make them? Or do you have a comic you’ve already drawn and don’t know what to do next? If you’re burning to do a superhero comic, a slice-of-life strip, a horror graphic novel, a romance webcomic, or any other amazing sequential story idea, this class can help you bring your project to life.
Many of the biggest IPs in the world started as comics. From Webtoon’s Lore Olympus being optioned for a Netflix series to Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Funhome becoming a Broadway hit, creator-owned comics can be a springboard to building a global platform and substantial fan base.
John Hazard and Lisa Burdige, SCPS Instructors
Aurora Borealis
A Background Noise Comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard
This is a poetic piece that connects the cosmic with consciousness.
John Hazard and Lisa Burdige have made Background Noise Comics for almost a decade. A social media favorite, soon to be published in “Love Letters, Every Day”, their first collection. John and Lisa are narrative storytellers who use their personal adventures as fodder for their art. In their work you can see the seeds of all their interests; pop culture, mental health issues, politics, family drama and of course romance. From fun to fabulist they love to help others develop their ideas into graphic stories and are excited to be doing so in their upcoming class, Create Your Own Comics: Get Started with Sequential Storytelling.
Website/Social: https://www.instagram.com/background_noise_comic/
Drawing Intensive
This intensive explores the fundamentals of drawing as a descriptive and expressive skill essential for all visual disciplines. Gain proficiency in a variety of drawing techniques, including line work, shading, perspective, and composition. Learn to accurately observe and depict form and space, both from life and imagination, using a range of materials and subjects. This course will cultivate your visual fluency, providing a solid foundation for further study in design, architecture, and illustration. Ideal for aspiring artists, designers, architects, and illustrators, this course will enhance your portfolio and professional skillset.
Scott Williams, SCPS Instructor
Big Black S.U.V
In the Drawing intensive you will learn how to draw from life, work with point of view and perspective, learn to analyze form and express complex subjects, learn about light and shadow and surface, and learn to channel your own vision and interests into powerful works of art.
Medium: Oil on Panel, 14 x 21″, 2022
In the Collection of Marcy Rosewater
Website/Social: www.scottwilliamspaintings.com, #scottnwilliamsstudio
Editorial Illustration
Learn the nuts and bolts of editorial illustration and create images for editorial publications through hands-on projects. From conceptual financial articles to book reviews, you’ll wear both the illustrator and art director hats. Understand how to navigate commission-based work while building a portfolio of beautiful editorial illustrations.
John Hazard, SCPS Instructor
Brand Loyalty
John Hazard for Marketing Dive
Editorial illustrations and comics are fun assignments, involving humor, style and engagement. For two years (until Covid cutbacks) I created weekly single panel editorial comics for Marketing Dive, a marketing trends newsletter and website, under the title “Comic Dive”. This one for an article about the ubiquitous presence of corporate branding in pop culture.
Website/Social: https://thehazmat.com/
Experimental Media Lab: Remix
This immersive graduate level course dives into the dynamic world of contemporary art by exploring “remix” as a core creative strategy. Through a blend of hands-on workshops, critical discussions, and inspiring site visits, students investigate the exciting possibilities of digital image-making, video production, net art, and curatorial practice. Develop practical skills in a variety of media, from digital photography and video editing to creating online and public art projects. Engage with critical ideas around appropriation, authorship, originality, and the evolving definitions of “new” in a remix culture. Participate in lectures, gallery visits, and collaborative studio sessions. Produce a body of work that reflects an individual exploration of remix strategies and contemporary media.
Faith Holland, SCPS Instructor
Touchscreen: Circle, 2020
Fashion Design Intensive
Explore the fundamental aspects of the fashion industry. Experiment with the elements of design and inspiration, learn terminology, collection development, and techniques in clothing construction.
Adrienne Jones, SCPS Instructor
The Black Dress Project
Website/Social: https://www.blackdressexhibit.com/
Graphic Design Summer Intensive
Master the art of graphic design and become a visual storyteller. This intensive course provides the skills and knowledge to create compelling visuals for print and digital media. Students learn graphic design language, typography, branding, composition, and concept creation using industry-standard tools, such as Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Gain practical branding experience by developing a professional portfolio showcasing unique designs for logos, websites, posters, and packaging. Benefit from expert guidance and a dynamic learning environment to launch a career in graphic design, advertising, marketing, or related fields.
Scott Santoro, SCPS Instructor
Maya Land Registry Poster
18″ x 24″ poster design for an organization in Belize helping indigenous tribes retain their land rights. This piece is about form, concept, typography, production tools, graphic devices, and composition, which are all important for creating a successful design. This is an example of how a work can not only draw the viewer in, but also convey relevant information.
Website/Social: http://www.worksight.com
Interiors for the Beginner
You will explore the fundamentals of interior design, from terminology designers use in an everyday professional setting to how to survey, problem solve and create interior spaces. You will develop an understanding of how interior design informs human behavior through function and aesthetics.
Ximena Sanchez, SCPS Student
Design is never static; it’s an evolving conversation between inspiration, vision and rigor. Pratt Institute cultivates a design philosophy where the process is seen as an ongoing journey, where a student can build their creative DNA, fully exploring and strengthening their creative abilities to create impactful projects. – Paulette Pascarella, SCPS Instructor
Introduction to Graphic Design
Study the foundation of graphic design as a communication tool and learn the importance of graphic design as an informative and promotional presence in commerce and society. What is the designer’s role as a communicator and innovator of design? Develop the creative, technical, and business skills needed to reach a specific target audience.
Patricia Childers, SCPS Instructor
Domination and Desire
This artist book, presented as a fold-out map, describes a walk on NYC’s Broadway. Broadway, and its significance as the Wickquasgeck Trail of the Lenape people, traverses the vast geographies of the island of Manahatta. The 13-mile-long trade route was a vital link for trade and communication between Lenape communities. Its current state contrasts sharply with the former path of gathering and exchange amongst diverse nations.
Website/Social: https://pchildersdesign.com/
Introduction to Photoshop
Learn the tools and develop techniques in Adobe Photoshop, the premier image-editing program used by professionals for image/photo color correction, retouching, compositing, and more. Gain the skills and confidence to work with this versatile program. Develop portfolio pieces.
Clément Careddu, SCPS Student
Unknown Portal
This piece was created by student Clement Careddu for our assignment in Introduction to Photoshop, with a focus on shape layers and the pen tool. The shapes and textures in this piece were designed and modified by Clement using the fundamental tools explored in the course – Jessica Reisch, SCPS Instructor
Metalworking
Explore metalworking as an art form and examine the techniques of welding, brazing, soldering, bending, cutting, forging, and drilling. Create and construct a small sculpture by the culmination of class.
Adam Apostolos, SCPS Instructor
Untitled
Medium: Metalworking
Photoshop Advanced
Go beyond the basics and unleash the full potential of Adobe Photoshop. Produce seamless images for a multitude of industries with this versatile application. Develop portfolio pieces.
Sonya Shannon, SCPS Instructor
Civil War
Who among us doesn’t spend their early adult life coming to terms with values, identity, purpose … who has not gone through inner struggle?
HOW CIVIL WAR BEGINS
I became someone I wasn’t, in order to survive.
I hid. Shut down. Disappeared under the veneer of who I suspected “they” wanted me to be—they being all of them—others, authority figures, haters. They being family, friends, lovers. Known and unknown.
ONE-ON-ONE INNER CONFRONTATIONS
The solar goddess against the wolf-torch / stiletto dagger warrior.
The torch-bearer and rock-thrower against the keeper of the womb.
She of the moon cycle against she of pitchfork and sword.
A contest of pre-ordained creativity versus the freedom to wreck whatsoever we choose.
You might think depicting a civil war is a violent process. Quite the opposite.
Every subtle detail holds messages from the Great Beyond: of complexity that cannot be cleaved from the simplest germ.
Ultimately, all war ends in surrender. Ceasefire. Peace.
ABOUT ‘CIVIL WAR’
This artwork depicts advanced selection and masking of figures, seamless integration through lighting and cast shadows, retouching, special visual effects, world-building, and storytelling,—all of which are covered in the course, supported by intensive group critique.
Medium: Civil War is 18 megapixels, 3 gigabytes, and 194 layers of pictorial data. All computed to a pixel-color veneer by my intrepid iMac, Maha Akal, whose name means “Great Timeless One.”
Model: Valeriia Sergeieva
Website/Social: https://sonyashannon.substack.com/, https://sonya-shannon.com, https://www.etsy.com/shop/SonyaShannonArt, https://transformation-oracle.com, https://www.facebook.com/sonyashannonartist/
RHINO
This course is designed for the computer-aided design (CAD) novice. Through a series of hands-on exercises and projects, students will experience fundamental digital tools suitable for the design, modeling, and production of small products.
Michael Stefan Leoniak, SCPS Instructor
RHINO: Computer Aided Design and 3-D
Here is one of the in-class builds that I made for the students on (Week-9)
They in turn follow my lecture/build/video and make a version of their own
Medium: RHINO
THE FUTURE OF FOOD: DIGITALLY LED EXPERIMENTS TO INFORM EATING
The future of food is both exciting and frightening. How we eat and look at food is influenced by our cultural backgrounds, tastebuds, time, and curiosity. Bring your own perspective to the table, with the goal of re-thinking ways of eating and preparing food. Design speculative tools that will assist in the production or consumption of edible products, using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as hand illustration, photography, and analog to digital scanning.
Raina Wellman, SCPS Instructor
Networks of Dining
Something as common and casual as eating, particularly with other people, is full of connectivity, networks, and collaboration. By extension, it is also true that every activity people participate in is just as full. I chose to explore the many networks and systems that can be exposed and extended through dining together.
By creating this project, the “Networks of Dining” event, I aimed to create a space for thoughtful, creative conversation and to foster a sense of community and intimacy. The graphic and artistic elements of the project included the design of a tablecloth, a menu, and a series of serving dishes created in collaboration with Maria Gerdyman. For the graphic imagery on both the tablecloth and the menu I chose to create a special kind of diagram, one that represented the complicated, interwoven, and extensive system of networks that go on behind the scenes.
We will explore similar subjects in class, while building skill sets in Adobe Creative Suite-led fabrication. Students will create design solutions that respond to wicked problems (as they relate to food) or develop art pieces that engage with the practice of eating (privately or communally).
How we eat and look at food is influenced by our cultural backgrounds, tastebuds, time, and curiosity. Students are encouraged to bring their own perspective to the table, with the goal of re-thinking ways of eating and preparing food. Projects might take the form of publications, performances, animations, or edible experiments.
The dinner was created in collaboration with local Rhode Island farmers and the Met Dining Staff as well as Chef David Gould
Website/Social: https://rainawellman.com// Instagram: @unnff
Painting and Drawing
Unlock your creativity! Utilize sketches as an inspiration to create a portfolio of paintings. Using a series of ongoing drawings and sketchbook entries, we will turn our diary-style entries into paintings. Focus on either the natural world, abstraction, or something in-between. Create a series of artworks based on our personal aesthetic experiences.
Melanie Kozol-Carney, SCPS Instructor
Portal 2024
Accomplished in plein air painting and studio practice, I work with visual documentation and memory to create interpretive paintings of the environment. I traverse the relationship between tangible physical characteristics and my emotional response to the environment. In the studio, I create paintings with layers of wash, mark making and scraping to reveal a pentimento of color, line, and form. In the classroom, I bring my personal history of painting to the students through slide shows of historical and contemporary artists. We look at the diverse ways to create a painting, focusing on representation through still life, interiors, figure and landscape.
Website/Social: https://www.instagram.com/melaniekozol/, https://melaniekozol.com/home.html