The School of Design educates curious makers in design practice to impact the world around them through the design of our messages, objects, spaces, systems and experiences. We offer undergraduate degrees in communications design (with an emphasis on graphic design or illustration), fashion design, industrial design, and interior design, and graduate degrees in communications design, industrial design, interior design and packaging, and identities and systems design. Recognizing the interdisciplinary commonalities of our design disciplines, we celebrate, connect, and educate designers whose creative endeavors will shape our world in critical ways. 

We believe that design connects: our work facilitates exchange, communication, and the building of community. Design enables: our work expands our physical and mental abilities. Design sustains: our work addresses the world’s limited resources and our significant environmental challenges. Design empowers: our work promotes equality, inclusiveness, and the free movement of people. Design humanizes: our work offers civil solutions for improving quality of life.

Through our disciplinary-specific studio-based programs, our students develop the requisite skills and methods to succeed in their respective professions while grounding this creative work within a rich context of history and critical inquiry. Our faculty, noted practitioners and accomplished scholars, exemplify the ethos of our educational experience; we teach makers how to think, and critical thinkers how to make.

 

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Dean
Anita Cooney

Assistant Dean
Eric O'Toole

Director of Finance
Jerry Risner

Assistant to the Dean
Donna Gorsline
Director of Production Labs and Material Research
Jay Lemire 

Production Lab Technicians
Christian Adamik
Kendall Bradley
Pat Carmody
Gary Hou
John Medley
Julia Wheeler

Reprographics Lab Manager
Puja Chodha

Office
Juliana Curran Terian Design Center
Steuben 304
Tel: 718.687.5744
Fax: 718.687.5722
sod@pratt.edu
www.pratt.edu/sod