From playing with creative prompts to designing with other life forms to using creative resources to take an unexpected path—this issue of Prattfolio explores the power of new perspectives.
About the Cover
Foundation student Anya Gupta, class of 2028, made this painting in Adjunct Assistant Professor Giulia Livi’s Light, Color, and Design (LCD) Studio during a unit on luminosity, part of the class’s studies of light and volume. Livi’s students prepared to create their own luminous spaces in isometric perspective by reading chapters of Italo Calvino’s prismatic novel-in-vignettes Invisible Cities, and Gupta also found inspiration in a podcast about the high-contrast, perception-bending TV series Severance.
LCD Studio is part of Foundation at Pratt, an experience of reorientation and transformation, when new ways of seeing, thinking, and making emerge, laying the groundwork for art and design explorations to come.
Photo by Dahlia Dandashi
Change Your Gaze
Pivot Points
“Our Generation Understands You Have to Be Flexible”
Where Laughing Matters
More Stories
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First Moves
Prattfolio connected with the members of Pratt’s Young Alumni Leadership Group, a program of Pratt Alumni Engagement, to talk about where they landed after Pratt, changing paths, and what’s energizing them now. -
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Reflecting on Transition and Transformation
“Spring is always a time of culminating energy at Pratt, and it is also a time of transitions. There is uncertainty, there may be doubt, but practice, experimentation, and collaboration with our people have prepared us to take those next steps into the different or unknown.” Read more in the President’s Letter. -
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Films, Decor, and More from Pratt Alumni
Pratt graduates’ new and noteworthy products and publications include wallpaper, home goods, and a history of the skateboard. -
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Golden Hours
Prattfolio visited Student Involvement’s Fall Fest on a sunny October Friday, to make instant photos and talk about weekend plans. -
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Design for the World
A career Q&A with designer and entrepreneur Aaron Nesser, MID ’17, who helps build products and companies with Earth in mind. -
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What’s Giving Director-Cinematographer Mylo Butler ’21 Creative Fuel
Director and cinematographer Mylo Butler, BFA Film ’21, fuses runway, nightlife, and narrative film in his vibrant body of work. -
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Alumni Notes Spring 2025
Alumni Notes is Pratt alumni news highlights compiled from class notes submissions, newsletters, items shared by faculty and staff, and media mentions. -
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Change Your Mind
You’re faced with a blank page, a problem, a roadblock—and the way to move through it seems murky, uninspiring, maybe impossible. How do you get unstuck?
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