Professional Practice

Selected projects connecting design education with professional practice, institutional partnerships, and public-facing work.

14th Street Creative Corridor 14th Street Creative Corridor

A multi-project initiative using New York’s 14th Street as a live design laboratory for site-specific, public-facing student work.

Pratt × Blick Pratt × Blick

An ongoing partnership bringing Pratt student work into professionally produced public exhibitions at Blick Art Materials.

Pratt Exhibitions Pratt Exhibitions

An ongoing collaboration connecting student design teams with Pratt Exhibitions and Pratt Manhattan Gallery.

Pigna Design Experience Pigna × Pratt Design Experience

An international industry collaboration culminating in a student-designed notebook manufactured in Italy for commercial sale.

Professional Practice Initiative Beyond the Portfolio

A career-readiness initiative integrating portfolio development, professional identity, networking, interviewing, and internship preparation.

Pratt Libraries Pratt Libraries Partnership

A sustained client partnership addressing environmental graphics, wayfinding, promotion, and communications across Pratt campuses.

Pratt Ink Pratt Ink

A studio model developed to create sustained client relationships and professional practice opportunities through student design teams.

Type Talks Type Talks

An international speaker initiative connecting students directly with designers, typographers, educators, and creative leaders.

Rome Through Design Rome Through Design

A communication-design program concept using Rome itself as classroom, archive, production site, and living visual system.

Why the World Looks the Way It Does Why the World Looks the Way It Does

More than 65 original lectures and 50 topics exploring 10,000 years of visual communication through multiple modes of learning.