In its Factory Friday series, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is highlighting makers throughout the city featuring photographs by Pratt student Jacob Grumulaitis. See more @madeinnewyorkcity.
Nov 18, 2021
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
In its Factory Friday series, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is highlighting makers throughout the city featuring photographs by Pratt student Jacob Grumulaitis. See more @madeinnewyorkcity.
Nov 18, 2021
Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, illustrated the November 2021 cover of National Geographic. It depicts two centuries of excavations from six continents: “I’m very much interested in the human story and the journey of the hero. And much of what we see in ancient Egypt, through temples and the architecture and the story on the walls, is very much about the journey of the hero.”
Nov 18, 2021
The Pratt Staff Council commissioned Jordan Moss, BFA ’16, to create a print celebrating the staff who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to ensure the continued success and safety of Pratt’s students and campus. Read more @prattinstitute.
Nov 17, 2021
Pratt is included in the 2022 Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges that features sustainability information from 420 schools.
Nov 17, 2021
The New York Times covered a new book by Nick Relph, visiting assistant professor of photography, called Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax featuring his digitally stitched-together streetscapes: “I’m a walker. That’s how I make work.”
Nov 16, 2021
The New York Review of Books featured The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During, associate professor of social science and cultural studies. The book examines the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity.
Nov 16, 2021
Derrick Adams, BFA Art and Design Education ’96, created a multimedia mural and sculptural installation for the Milwaukee Art Museum that is inspired by Victor Hugo Green’s traveler’s guide for Black Americans during the Jim Crow era. As he stated, the Our Time Together mural highlights “Milwaukee by representing commercial and civic gathering spaces known within the Black community, where people are united in ways that may go unnoticed.”
Nov 15, 2021
Yaokun Wu, BID ’21, was featured in the recent Lexus Design Award 2020/2021 Finalists Exhibition held in Tokyo. Wu was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Lexus Design Award for Flash Pak, a project aimed at protecting primary to high school students in parts of the world that experience flash floods.
Nov 15, 2021
Alexander Wilde, MID ’22, is exhibiting material explorations of plywood in Launch Pad at WantedDesign Manhattan, happening November 14 to 15. The platform at the design fair highlights emerging designers who are exploring new concepts and ideas in their work. See more @prattindustrial.
Nov 12, 2021
A stamp designed by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, will be issued by the US Postal Service in 2022. It honors the late Eugenie Clark, aka the “Shark Lady,” a marine biologist who shared sharks with the world through books, articles, and TV specials.
Nov 12, 2021