Courses

Editorial Illustration

Learn the nuts and bolts of editorial illustration and create images for editorial publications through hands-on projects. From conceptual financial articles to book reviews, you'll wear both the illustrator and art director hats. Understand how to navigate commission-based work while building a portfolio of beautiful editorial illustrations.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Portrait Drawing

This course takes a detailed look into the interior and functional structures of the head, their forms and variations and how they affect the look of the head and face. Open up new creative and expressive possibilities to more effectively draw from life, invent, work from memory, and create strong, lifelike portraits.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Online

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is the leading layout design software for print and digital media. Explore the vast capabilities of InDesign and develop portfolio pieces focused on composition, typography, and publication design.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Online

Advanced Interiors: Function & Style

Learn how to identify popular styles in decor, customize and specify materials for a project, and formulate a budget. Go on a journey to discover how to develop an existing space by understanding human behavior, applying everyday function into a design, while using scale and proportion. Focus on basic color theory and the customization of furniture and decor.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Book Illustration: Picture Book

Learn the art of illustrating a story idea and how to make your art work in the versatile picture book format. Concentrate on elements that can help you develop the tools you need. Learn about the business and the physical process of creating a picture book.

June 16, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Brand Design and Corporate Identity

Learn the craft of brand expression and how it flows from brand strategy and business objectives to perception in the minds of consumers and the public at large.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Design Ideation and Research

Explore the methods, process, and culture used to develop creative ideas while solving problems facing individuals, groups, businesses and society at large-primarily through a structured approach to product innovation.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Figma for UX/UI

Figma is the industry-leading tool for UX and UI design-built for collaboration, speed, and innovation. Learn how to design user-centered experiences by creating essential deliverables like sitemaps, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups and clickable prototypes.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Online

Interiors For The Beginner

Familiarize yourself with the skills, terminology, and techniques professional interior designers utilize to develop a space from initial idea to finished design. Learn how to present your designs to clients

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Online

Introduction to Revit

Start using the fundamental commands in Revit right away. Revit is the AEC industry's most popular parametric building modeler. With it, you can create not just 3D digital models of buildings, but also databases of the information required to construct them.

June 16, 2025 to July 22, 2025, Online

Introduction to Typography

Learn how to design typography for optimal reading, communication hierarchy, and graphic impact through a variety of real-world assignments and exercises.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Metalworking

Explore metalworking as an art form and examine the techniques of welding, brazing, soldering, bending, cutting, forging, and drilling. Create and construct a small sculpture by the culmination of class.

June 17, 2025 to July 25, 2025, Chemistry Building

RHINO: Computer Aided Design and 3-D

This course is designed for the computer-aided design (CAD) novice. Through a series of hands-on exercises and projects, students will experience fundamental digital tools suitable for the design, modeling, and production of small products. The assignments and projects will center around digital 3D design on a computer. All of the skills learned can be applied to many product categories and a wide range of industries

June 19, 2025 to July 25, 2025, Online

Urban Sketching

Immerse yourself in a hands-on drawing adventure that will bring the city to life on your sketchbook pages. Explore varied urban spaces, discovering new ways to see and capture the world around you with confidence and creativity. Through fun, on-location sessions, you'll sharpen your observation skills, strengthen your understanding of composition and perspective, and develop your unique artistic style. Draw from life and gain fresh inspiration whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting out.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Video Storytelling

Master the core production crafts of visual storytelling and independent filmmaking, using a personal, hands-on approach. Develop short-form projects on a weekly basis based on assigned exercises, emphasizing directorial choices, the cinematographic language, visual storytelling and directing actors. Self-generate your own films with actionable techniques of an independent filmaker.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan