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Pratt - Pratt School of Art and Design - Industrial Design Department
Address: 200 Willoughby Avenue
City: Brooklyn, New York 11025
Country: United States
The School of Art and Design offers one of the finest and most comprehensive professional art and design educations available. With a distinguished faculty and exceptional technical and studio resources, gifted students from throughout the United States and the world come together at Pratt, forming an unmatched assembly of creative energy and opportunity.
Courses are taught by the finest gathering of professional artists, designers, critics, historians and practitioners in the world. The faculty includes numerous recipients of prestigious awards such as the Tiffany, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Fellowships. The faculty’s works, projects and publications are known and respected throughout the globe. Along with state-of-the-art curricula and outstanding faculty, the School of Art and Design offers students an exciting level of diversity, both in the campus community and in the degree offerings. There are 18 undergraduate and 12 graduate programs within the School.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT
Industrial design can be explained as the thoughtful creation of the forms of everyday life. From toothbrushes to jumbo jets, from cameras to computers, teachers and students at Pratt together explore, challenge, and re-define the forms and inventions with which we live.
At Pratt, abstraction and pragmatism coexist. Common design abstractions include line, plane, color, form, structure, and volume. To these we add the principles of accessibility, responsibility, and enlightenment. Accessibility underscores everyone's right to access everything all the time.
Each student is assigned a personal work station. Assignments revolve around problem solving, both in teams and individually. Students learn to design and execute as do their professional counterparts-from presentation sketches to finished models-ensuring a practical understanding of the entire industrial design process. Faculty are demanding; all are professionals, many are principals at world-renowned firms, and several are recipients of prestigious design awards.
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