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Seek the Critique: Career Advice from Brand Designer Yvette Yoon ’23

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Yvette Yoon, BFA Communications Design ’23, shares how seeking feedback and expanding her perspective helped her launch her career.

Design with Purpose: Júlia Martínez ’25 on Finding a Meaningful Career

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Júlia Martínez, MS Packaging, Identities, and Systems Design ’25, is a graphic designer and visualizer at OXMAN, a design lab exploring how nature and humans can coproduce through biologically informed design.

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Pratt Institute Ranked #5 in World’s Top Art & Design Universities

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The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 also place Pratt in the top three universities for art and design in the United States.

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Entrepreneurship in a Value-Driven World: Career Advice from Founder Jonathan Lin ’25

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Jonathan Lin, BFA Communications Design ’25, shares insights on launching the brand transformation studio New Studio Partners.

Inside Pratt's Foundations Lab, a classroom is filled with skeletons, live plants, and natural science displays. Two model human skeletons stand near those of a stag and a primate, the latter of which is perched on a case of animal skulls. Atop another case filled with pinecones and a large egg, a small, four-legged skeleton is posed as if in mid-leap. The room is lined with window succulents, a hanging airplant, and a mounted wasp nest.

In the Foundations Lab, Pratt Students Find Inspiration in the Natural World

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Part art studio, part science lab, the innovative space invites students to explore art and nature.

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Designing Her Way to Her Dream Job

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Recent alumna Renata Dominguez always knew she wanted to work in design. Now, just one year post-grad, she’s thriving at one of the biggest international branding agencies.

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Exploring the Role of Values in Art and Design Education

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Hosted on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus, the 2025 AICAD Symposium featured sessions on climate literacy, community-based learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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The New York Times

A Moth Hole Hates to See Them Coming

A New York Times feature highlights Pratt’s student-led Mending Circle, where fashion students are reimagining clothing repair as both a creative practice and a sustainable response to fast fashion.
New York Amsterdam News

Pratt’s Black Dress Talks highlight the creativity and realities of the fashion industry

The New York Amsterdam News features Pratt Institute’s Black Dress Talks, an initiative led by Fashion professor Adrienne Jones that elevates Black voices in fashion through conversations on creativity, entrepreneurship, and industry dynamics.
HuffPost

Here’s Why You Wear A Different Size Clothing For Every Brand You Wear

In a HuffPost feature on the lack of standardized clothing sizes, Pratt visiting assistant professor Keena Hudson explained that mass production ushered in a “try to fit as many people as possible” approach to sizing, rooted in outdated data.