Students

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Pratt Students Partner with Local Business Improvement Group to Build Sidewalk Pavilion

Students from Pratt’s graduate and undergraduate architecture programs have recently devoted their time and skills to a neighborhood project located a few blocks away from Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. Working as volunteers with the Pratt Student International Design Efforts…

Fashion

Fashion Major Elizabeth Gee Named Winner of First-Ever Halloween Costume Design Contest

Elizabeth Gee (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’18) has been named the winner of the first-ever Halloween costume design contest organized by Pratt Institute and vintage clothing hotspot Screaming Mimi’s. The winning costume design is on view in the Screaming Mimi’s display…

Architecture

NASA Project Collaboration Inspires Students to Create Habitat for Travel to Mars

In a challenge presented by NASA, Pratt students are being inspired to address design concerns related to space travel. For an interdisciplinary studio class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture Michael Morris and Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design…

Fashion

Fashion Label 3.1 Phillip Lim Collaborates with Professor Dean Sidaway on Special Topics Class

This summer, fashion label 3.1 Phillip Lim collaborated with Pratt’s Assistant Professor of Fashion Dean Sidaway on a special topics course in which fashion students designed a collection for the brand. Upon completion of the class, members of the 3.1…

Fashion

Pratt Institute Participates in New York Fashion Week 2015

A number of recent Pratt fashion graduates and faculty will participate in exhibitions and shows during New York Fashion Week 2015, which begins on September 10. Highlights are listed below. Exhibition and Events at the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator…

Foundation

Foundation Class Mural Installed Outside Brooklyn Botanic Garden

A mural created by students in the freshman Foundation Drawing class taught by adjunct assistant professor and Distinguished Teaching Award winner Andrew Lenaghan this spring was recently installed outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), where it is being displayed this…

Film/Video

New State-of-the-Art Facility Opens for Film/Video Department Expansion

Pratt Institute recently opened a new home for the Film/Video Department in the former Prattstore building at 550 Myrtle Avenue on the Brooklyn campus. The 15,000-square-foot facility was designed by WASA/Studio A with lead architect and Pratt alumnus Jack…

Undergraduate Fine Arts

MADE@PRATT Video: Fine Arts Senior Anthony Limauro Creates a Caryatid Table

Sculpture student Anthony Limauro (B.F.A. Fine Arts ’15) referenced classical forms in the contemporary table that he created as part of his senior thesis project. With a glass and walnut top supported by four bronze caryatids, which are sculpted…

Fashion

Pratt Institute’s 116th Fashion Show Dazzles Crowd and Attracts Widespread Media Coverage

Pratt Institute presented a sold out runway show to nearly 400 guests from the fashion industry who gathered to see curated looks by graduating senior fashion students on May 7 at Center548 in Manhattan. The show received coverage and accolades…

Undergraduate Industrial Design

Video: Kai Lin (B.I.D. ’15) Designs Mountain Goat-Inspired Prosthetic for Rock Climbing

Industrial design student Kai Lin (B.I.D. ’15) designed KLIPPA, a prosthetic leg for amputee rock climbers, for Professor of Industrial Design Jonathan Thayer’s Aesthetics of Prosthetics class. Inspired by the exceptional climbing ability of mountain goats, Lin developed a design…