Alumni Archives

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Fresh Alumni Design, Books, and More

Artful lighting, visual-packed volumes, colorful adornments—read on for Prattfolio’s Fall 2024 highlights of new and noteworthy products and publications by Pratt graduates. Agoraphilia on Adult Swim SmallsMaggie Brennan, MFA Digital Arts ’19 Having illustrated comics for…

A Prattler newspaper cover demonstrating student activism at Pratt. The cover features white lettering on a black background, showing its title (The Prattler), location, volume number, publication date, and issue number in the header, a large and all-caps and rendering of the word “STRIKE” in the center, and a description of the student strike against Pratt administration due to increased tuition, the institutions take over of surrounding middle-class housing projects, and the firing of concerned faculty, as well as a vision for the future of Pratt, below.

The Voice of Pratt’s Student Body

In the spring of 2003, the staff of Pratt’s longest-running student publication, The Prattler, was pulling together their first issue of the new year. “At the time, The Prattler had an office in Willoughby that also functioned as an…

A spread from the book HERE: Where the Black Designers Are, featuring works of graphic design, including a book jacket for a novel titled “THE WILD WILD WEST” and record jackets for artists including Tyone Davis and Rune Gustafsson, among other illustrations.

Celebrating Black Graphic Designers in a Panoramic New Book

A question has confronted graphic designer Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller since the start of her career: “Where are the Black designers?” She explored it as a writer, first in the form of a trailblazing master’s thesis for Pratt Institute, then…

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Pratt Alumni Books

Pratt Institute graduates are building new worlds, in picture books, novels, artist monographs, and more.

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An Unlikely On-Campus Oasis

“I can’t believe this is here!” It’s a refrain Randy Donowitz, director of the Writing and Tutorial Center, has heard time and again during his 29 years at Pratt. It all started with a practical suggestion. In 1997, a friend…

Mapping Pratt in Brooklyn

Let us know: What’s your go-to Brooklyn spot? Where do you creatively refuel, open your mind, enrich your senses? Where have you found professional support, or information and ideas? What place would you recommend to someone in your field…

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Advice for New Pratt Students, from 2024 Grads

This past spring, Prattfolio caught up with soon-to-be grads—and a few current students and faculty and staff members too—at the Brooklyn and Manhattan campus Grad Fairs. One question we asked: What advice would you give a new student? Here’s what…

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Discovering Our Literary City

If it’s 7 p.m. in New York City, there’s a chance that somewhere a reading is about to start. There’s nothing like the particular warmth and community that happens around readings that bring us into one place—low-lit dive bars and…

2024 Alumni Books (and an Album)

The 2024 roundup of recently published work by Pratt Institute alumni shines a spotlight on the diverse worlds authored and illustrated across a range of genres and forms. These titles span immersive design experiences and intimate personal narratives, poetic explorations,…

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Those We Have Lost

Pratt Mourns Retired Longtime Professor and Former Dean of Engineering Richard North

Richard C. North, retired longtime faculty member and dean, a professor in Pratt Institute’s School of Engineering and School of Architecture, passed away on April 23, 2024.