Courses

Adobe After Effects

Dive into After Effects' tools to discover this powerful application's potential for digital artists interested in 2D and 3D animation.

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 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.

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
April 22, 2025 to May 15, 2025, Accelerated 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.

April 21, 2025 to May 14, 2025, Accelerated Hybrid

Advanced Perfumery

Advance your skill level in this course, which is a continuation of the Technique and Language of Perfumery course, PMPF 310. Improve your olfaction skills, master fragrance classification, memorize key raw materials and their illustration in market products, and develop your perfumery culture.

February 25, 2025 to March 13, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
February 25, 2025 to March 13, 2025, Online
March 16, 2025 to April 20, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Advertising What Matters: Building a Health and Wellness Campaign

Master the power of creating meaningful advertising. Create a compelling health and wellness campaign from scratch, mastering visual branding through color, typography, and imagery.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated In-person

AI Assisted Ad Campaigns

Hone the skills you'll need for the future of advertising with AI Assisted Ad Campaigns. Take a hands-on approach and learn how to utilize AI tools throughout the campaign process, from insight mining to polished execution. Collaborate with AI to interpret briefs, experiment with AI-driven ideation for unique concepts, headlines, and scripts, and create repeatable, scalable content across media. By course end, you will have a fully realized AI portfolio piece, showcasing your creative vision and technical skill in the evolving field of advertising.

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AutoCAD Advanced

Replicate a professional workflow and build upon concepts introduced in Introduction to AutoCAD through hands-on exercises that explore how to refine 2D production drawings.

January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Online

BioDesign and Biomimicry

Using a holistic approach, learn to integrate BioDesign and Biomimicry into your creative process and demonstrate its value to stakeholders.

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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.

February 2, 2025 to April 20, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Branded Content Marketing

Execute a successful branded content marketing strategy. Curate content marketing campaigns on various digital platforms that tie back to the brand and establish a connection between the brand and consumer, using authentic content.

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 2025, Hybrid/Brooklyn

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.

January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan
April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Hybrid

Certificate Course in AI Design

Reimagine design work in the age of AI. Enhance your design approach by seamlessly integrating the latest AI-tools and methods for research, idea generation, and project execution. Merge your current skills with Generative AI skills through best practices and newly developed design methodologies. You will learn to craft AI prompts for maximum results, incorporate AI into your design workflows, and improve the human-machine experience as it relates to responsibility, equity, and safety.

January 28, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Certificate Course in Digital Product Design

Dive into user experience design for web and mobile apps through Pratt's Digital Product Design Certificate. Learn a design process and leverage it across industries. Gain UX/UI design skills while building a strong case study.

January 27, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Online

Certificate Course in Exhibition Design

Learn to design and document an exhibition from concept to installation. Focus on creating interpretive environmental experiences that include storytelling, sustainability and environmental design. Complete and present an exhibition design proposal with models, photographs and drawings of original work toward a portfolio.

January 27, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Online

Certificate Course in Human-Centered Design

Go beyond UX for interfaces and digital products through Pratt SCPS's Human-Centered Design Certificate. Construct a deep understanding of a user's needs and challenges. Develop a methodology that places those needs and challenges central in the design process. Create solutions for any touch point where people and industry intersect. From services to management frameworks, through both digital and physical applications, let empathy drive your designs to meaningful end-user experiences.

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Color Theory In Practice

Discover how to deploy color theory effectively in a professional design or fine art setting. Receive one-on-one guidance in learning to mix colors and combine colors to achieve a variety of visual effects with an understanding of the science behind it. Develop your own understanding of color relationships and tonal values through creative projects, assignments, and class discussions.

January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Hybrid/Brooklyn

Conceptual Photography: Imagination to Image

This unique online course delves into the realm of photography as conceptual art. Participants will be encouraged to play and experiment freely in a supportive, creative environment. You will be prompted to develop and clarify your personal, visual poetics. All will be challenged to reconsider the possibilities of idea-centered image-making. Topics will include staged photography, abstract photography, self-portraiture, collage, minimalism, deadpan, cameraless photography, etc. The class is perfect for diving into a new body of work or getting acquainted with conceptual approaches to photography. Any image capture device may be used. The class will include weekly assignments and prompts, individual feedback, and a broad survey of contemporary photography for inspiration.

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Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design

The Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design course is a specialized course that focuses on the principles of design in the context of cosmetic products and their visual presentation. The purpose of this course is to train students to design and execute effective visual merchandising strategies that will enhance the aesthetic appeal of cosmetic products in retail spaces.

January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Create Your Own Comics: Get Started with Sequential Storytelling

Do you love comics and have always wanted to make them? Or do you have a comic you've already drawn and don't know what to do next? If you're burning to do a superhero comic, a slice-of-life strip, a horror graphic novel, a romance webcomic, or any other amazing sequential story idea, this class can help you bring your project to life.

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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.

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Digital Marketing

Gain the skills needed to excel in digital marketing. From social media marketing and content marketing to programmatic advertising and online press release distribution, this course covers it all. Explore essential areas such as display advertising, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube), influencer marketing, and AI.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Online

Entrepreneurship and The Creation of a Fragrance Brand

The course is designed to explore the creation of a niche fragrance brand from the perspective of a business entrepreneur. Topics will include the key elements of success in niche perfumery with in-depth evaluation of top fragrance brands that are resonating in the market today with consumers.

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Event Marketing

Unlock the power of event marketing to build meaningful connections, elevate your brand, and achieve measurable results. This dynamic course equips you with the tools and strategies to design and execute events that captivate audiences, generate valuable leads, and deliver exceptional ROI for stakeholders. Transform events into platforms for one-on-one engagement, brand awareness, and product education. Whether you're organizing an intimate gathering or a high-profile conference, this course provides the expertise to craft unforgettable experiences that deliver real value and lasting impact.

January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Fashion Brand Vision

Consider the touchpoint connections between fashion brands and consumers? Learn to understand branded visual communication as it applies to the fashion industry. Develop a strategic visual vocabulary to be applied to storytelling across media. Students acquire the skills to craft captivating presentations and master impactful hands-on visual messaging from a business viewpoint.

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Fashion Illustration

Create a stunning collection of fashion illustrations with a variety of media. You'll learn to illustrate faces, hands, feet, a variety of poses, clothing (dresses, tops, bottoms and more), and textiles.

January 31, 2025 to April 18, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Fashion Photography: Past, Present, and Future

Reimagine the future of fashion and find your voice in the conversation. This experimental online laboratory will seek new paradigms for fashion photography, considering the imaging of attire and adornment at the crossroads of art and contemporary culture. Exploring myriad entry points, with industry iconoclasts as inspiration, we will strive to find a higher purpose as fashion photographers. We'll consider fashion photography's potential as cultural production through presentations, assignments, discussion, and feedback in a supportive virtual space. Emphasis will be given to artistic expression and imagining a new future for fashion photography. Photographers of all skill levels are welcome; the only pre-requisite is passion and curiosity about fashion and the lens.

January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Online

Figma for UX/UI

Figma is built for user experience designers. Learn how to create UX and UI deliverables, such as sitemaps, wireframes and mock-ups. Explore core Figma concepts like Vectors, Artboards, Symbols (Nesting and Overrides) and Libraries.

January 31, 2025 to April 18, 2025, Online
April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Online

Find Your Artistic Path in a Creative Career

Discover the creative career landscape for visual artists, photographers, and designers. Learn how to find and do the work that you love. From staff roles to freelancing to launching an LLC, understand your career options, strategies, and how to protect your intellectual property.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated In-person

Fragrance Creation Workshop

Engage in an intensive exploration of the fundamental concepts related to a wide range of fragrance product types. Discover how to compose a fragrance and the industry standard rules and methodologies. Learn about olfaction (the sense of smell) and study the importance of olfactory tenacity and intensity by practicing the basics of the olfactive pyramid.

March 18-20, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
March 18-20, 2025, Online

Furniture Design Studio

Learn how to turn your initial idea into a real piece of furniture and go through all of the stages of the professional design process without leaving your home. Observe and experiment to find inspiration. Create and develop your concepts. Use sketches, drawings and models to test and refine a proposal. Portfolio build to effectively document and communicate your projects to future clients.

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Graphic Design Portfolio

Apply the principles learned in Intro to Graphic Design to complex, real-world problems in a professional studio atmosphere. Build and refine your portfolio with multi-platform branding projects that require research, experimentation, and design problem-solving. Fill in portfolio gaps and emerge with a refined, job-search-ready, digital portfolio that champions ideation, process, and professional presentation. Participate and get inspired in a supportive community of peers. Refine your ability to give and receive constructive feedback.

April 22, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Online

Illustrator Advanced

Use the complex variations and advanced tools of Adobe Illustrator to execute refined projects that demand a mature skill-set. Develop portfolio pieces. Prerequisite: PMCG 202 Introduction to Adobe Illustrator.

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Integrated Advertising Campaigns - a Creative Focus

Delve into the creative and design aspects of developing impactful integrated advertising campaigns. Explore the principles, strategies, and techniques that drive successful campaign creation and execution. Through theoretical discussions, case studies, hands-on projects, and guest lectures from industry professionals, you will develop creative thinking, visual communication, and design skills to craft compelling and cohesive campaigns across various media channels.

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

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

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Online
April 21, 2025 to May 17, 2025, Accelerated Online

Introduction to Architectural and Mechanical Drafting

Learn the fundamentals of drafting: the tools, techniques and principals. Create basic drafts of floor plans, elevations, sections, details, and isometric projections. Understand how drafting skills translate to today's basic 2D/3D digital software packages (i.e. AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, etc.)

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Introduction to AutoCAD

Begin with basic tools and concepts that enable you to create and edit simple drawings; then move on to more advanced tools. Explore the AutoCAD workspace and user interface. Finish with a production drawing that's ready to print.

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 2025, Online

Introduction to Digital Photography and Lightroom

Explore the fundamentals of digital photography. Learn camera usage, composition, control of the image and output through Adobe Bridge and Lightroom, with an emphasis on lighting and personal vision.

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Introduction to Drawing

Learning to see, perception, and the art of drawing. In this exciting course we will explore many media, methods and styles of drawing. This is an excellent foundation course for making art and will power-up your creativity.

February 2, 2025 to April 20, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
April 22, 2025 to May 15, 2025, Accelerated In-person

Introduction to Graphic Design

Study the foundation of graphic design as a communication tool and learn the importance of graphic design as an informative and promotional presence in commerce and society.

January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Online

Introduction to Furniture Design

Survey the basics of furniture design. Learn through making and testing. Gain a basic understanding of furniture formulation and construction. You will work on full-size models and prototypes, create ideation sketches and line drawings of your designs, study human scale, proportion and composition.

January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Online

Introduction to Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is the premier program in the graphic design industry for vector drawing. Create smooth-lined, clean, scalable graphics for both print and the Web. Develop portfolio pieces.

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 2025, Online
January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

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.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Online

Introduction to Photoshop

Learn the tools and develop techniques in Adobe Photoshop, the premier image-editing program used by professionals for image/photo color correction, retouching, compositing, and more. Gain the skills and confidence to work with this versatile program. Develop portfolio pieces.

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Online
January 31, 2025 to April 18, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
April 21, 2025 to May 14, 2025, Accelerated Online

Introduction to Sustainable Design: Processes and Materials

Study the basic principles of sustainable design thinking, design vocabulary, and composition. This course is an introduction to sustainable design for learners with or without prior design experience.

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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.

January 27, 2025 to April 14, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan
April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Hybrid

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.

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Chemistry Building

Painting and Drawing

Unlock your creativity! Utilize sketches as an inspiration to create a portfolio of paintings. Using a series of ongoing drawings and sketchbook entries, we will turn our diary-style entries into paintings. Focus on either the natural world, abstraction, or something in-between. Create a series of artworks based on our personal aesthetic experiences.

January 30, 2025 to April 17, 2025, Hybrid/Brooklyn

Photographic Composition

Analyze the challenges and potential solutions involved in photographical composition. Investigate how photographers say what they say based primarily on ideas suggested in the seminal writing on photography, John Szarkowski's The Photographer's Eye.

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
April 22, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Online

Photoshop Advanced

Go beyond the basics and unleash the full potential of Adobe Photoshop. Produce seamless images for a multitude of industries with this versatile application.

January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Online
April 21, 2025 to May 14, 2025, Accelerated Online

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.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Online

PreCollege Portfolio Development: Discover

Discover your personal voice and craft an artist statement in this studio class. A strong personal perspective is vital when developing a body of work. Students will research topics of personal interest and create imaginative portfolio pieces that demonstrate their personal perspectives and views.

January 25, 2025 to March 29, 2025
June 23, 2025 to July 3, 2025, Online

PreCollege Portfolio Development: Workshop

Learn from the expert! Join Mike Barry, Associate Director of Admissions, in an engaging, 3-hour workshop covering the ins and outs of what makes a compelling Portfolio, what a complete application consists of, and the importance of a portfolio for students considering a career and education in art and design. Engage in a live Q&A session for personalized advice and receive the tools to kickstart your college essay.

Monday, June 30, 2025

PreCollege: Figure Drawing Workshop

Join us for a Drawing Workshop led by experienced Pratt faculty, designed specifically for high school students eager to master the essential skill of figure drawing. In this immersive 3-hour session, you'll learn to break down complex figures into simple shapes and develop your ability to render both quick sketches and detailed pieces.

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PreCollege: Introduction to the Graphic Novel Workshop

Passionate about storytelling through images and words? Join our "Introduction to the Graphic Novel" workshop at Pratt Institute, where you'll explore the fascinating world of graphic novels as both a reader and a creator! Led by Pratt faculty member, Sofi Thanhauser, this 3-hour workshop leaves students with copies of their original comic, beautifully crafted into zines to share and trade with friends and classmates.

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PreCollege: Stand Up Comedy Workshop

In this three hour workshop, students will learn to analyze stand up comedy performances to identify the formal components of joke writing and joke telling - "setups", "punchlines", and "tags", and the underlying comedic devices that link these structures together. Students will engage in freewriting exercises and brainstorming activities in order to generate their own joke premises, and use what they learned in their analysis to structure their own original jokes. Students will practice performance warm ups and at the end the class by performing what they've written.

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Professional Practices in Furniture Design

Build upon the competencies and projects developed in Introduction to Furniture Design.Develop and adopt the professional knowledge and skills needed to start a successful career in furniture design, a growing business in the region. Deepen your understanding of the environmental and societal impacts of the furniture design and manufacturing business.

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Portfolio and Career Development

Your portfolio is critical to your success. Build a portfolio that emphasizes your specialty. Refine projects you have worked on during the semester with the aim of producing a cohesive body of work to market yourself/your brand.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Hybrid

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

January 31, 2025 to April 18, 2025, Online

Spatial Design

Create impactful designs for your portfolio based on real-world challenges. Develop a core skill-set to express ideas, address cultural concerns and make informed interior design choices. Through in-class exercises that involve engaging with objects in space, you'll be guided through a professional interior design process that introduces basic CAD design, using SketchUp and Revit.

January 29, 2025 to April 16, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Sustainable Design Theory and Practice

Exploring tools and strategies for sustainable design across disciplines, and building upon the lessons from previous sustainability courses, develop your own unique design proposals in the form of drawings and models to incorporate in a professional design portfolio.

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The Perfumer's Artistry and Psychology of Scent

This course will explore the unique ways that fragrance can be used as a tool to navigate life from a psychological point of view and offer an intimate view of the perfumer, a creative artist who is also a trained chemist and has the unique ability to combine fragrance ingredients to create extraordinary, iconic fragrances.

April 23, 2025 to May 14, 2025, Online

The Technique and Language of Perfumery

Experience a voyage into the world of perfumes, test your sense of smell, and review the whole fragrance process from concept to market product.

January 28, 2025 to February 13, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
January 28, 2025 to February 13, 2025, Online

UX/UI Portfolio/Project Development

Perfect for anyone with prior knowledge of UX who is looking to quickly develop a UX case study for their portfolio, or refine existing projects for presentation and professional development.

April 21, 2025 to May 16, 2025, Accelerated Hybrid

Video Editing: Premiere Pro

Edit footage and tell your stories. Learn the aesthetics of video editing by connecting sequences and applying color corrections, special effects, and graphics.

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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.

January 28, 2025 to April 15, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan