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The new book Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham, professor in the Writing Department, was featured in the Washington Post. The review called the author “one of America’s most inventive writers.”

The 2021 growing season of the Textile Dye Garden on the Brooklyn campus was chronicled in handmade swatch books as a resource and archive for students to browse through the color range of the plants. See more @prattdyegarden and read about the initiative on the Pratt.edu news page.

Slate published an essay by Dean of the School of Architecture Harriet Harriss that is included in the new book Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects from the University of Chicago Press. It explores the Kodak Flashcube which “made amateur photography of the domestic interior possible from the mid-1960s onwards.”

On @prattfineart, view highlights from this semester’s sophomore painting final critiques.

The Apex Suit designed by the Interwoven Design Group, founded by fashion design and industrial design faculty member Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, with HeroWear received gold in the 2021 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). The design is made for workers in the logistics industry to fight fatigue in the workplace.

The New Brick – From Automatic to Robotic now at the Hudson Valley’s Haverstraw Brick Museum features prototypes from an advanced undergraduate architecture studio led by Jonathan A. Scelsa, associate professor of undergraduate architecture. The students examined the use of robotic ceramic printing for producing new volumetric porous bricks that could support flora and fauna habitat restoration in urban ecologies. The exhibition is on view through March 1, 2022.

This fall, the Center K-12 launched a collaborative program with Brooklyn Community Services involving ten weeks of art programming for elementary and middle school students through the Cornerstone programs in two NYCHA facilities. They learned printmaking techniques like linoleum block printing and mono-printing. See more @prattyouth.

Constantin Boym, chair of industrial design, is a contributing author to The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe out now from Bloomsbury. The book presents a selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe in English for the first time. On Monday, December 20, at noon EST, Boym will be part of an online launch event for the book.

On @prattinstitute, ten photos offer a glimpse of the creativity, innovation, and collaboration that happened this year on campus.