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.

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 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

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.

June 17, 2025 to July 3, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
June 17, 2025 to July 3, 2025, Online
June 29, 2025 to August 10, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Advertising What Matters: Building a Health and Wellness Campaign

Master the power of creating meaningful advertising, as you design a wellness campaign from concept to portfolio piece. Build brand identity from the bottom up. Explore and practice the art of visual branding through color, typography, graphics and imagery. See how human insights can fuel your ideas. Learn techniques for sparking creative thinking. Interact with guest experts. Bring your concept to life across multiple channels, including experiential and social media. Whether your personal experience is in graphic design, fine art, marketing or communications, this course will give you the ability to develop an award-worthy campaign that can change lives

This course contains no sessions

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.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, Online

BIO + TECH + DESIGN

Utilize digital making and autonomously-led research to represent and augment your understanding and relationship with biological processes. Dive into the Adobe Creative Suite, hand illustration, and analog to digital scanning to develop your own visions of the future of biodesign and biotechnology. Guided by material created by designers like Dunne and Raby, speculate on the future of scientific inquiry. Historically, art technological tools have vastly changed our ability to present and experiment with the natural world-consider, for example, the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at Harvard, protein modeling through digital 3D software, and the series of macro botanicals documented by the German photographer and sculptor Karl Blossfeldt. What's next?

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 2025, Pratt 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

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.

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 2025, Online

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

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.

May 27, 2025 to August 13, 2025, Online

Certificate Course in Human-Centered Design

Go beyond traditional UX and digital interfaces with Pratt SCPS's Human-Centered Design Certificate. Equip yourself with the skills to deeply understand user needs, rethink challenges, and craft innovative solutions across industries-whether in services, management frameworks, or physical and digital experiences.

May 27, 2025 to August 14, 2025, Online

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.

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 2025, Online

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.

July 2-25, 2025, Online

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.

May 29, 2025 to August 14, 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

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.

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 2025, Online

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

Entrepreneurship and The Creation of a Fragrance Brand

Create a fragrance brand from the perspective of a business entrepreneur. Meet marketing professionals from beauty and perfumery brands, as well as perfumers from fragrance houses. Analyze the global fragrance market. Identify the key elements of success in niche, luxury and mass market perfumery through a comprehensive study and evaluation of top fragrance brands that are resonating in the market today. Delve into the key stages of brand development and articulation: market analysis; review of key competitors; ideation and brand inspiration; creation of a brand mission and marketing plan; marketing strategy; olfactive strategy; package design; operations; distribution channels. Plan a strategy for launching to market.

May 27, 2025 to July 1, 2025, Online

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.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, Online

Freelancing

Tackle the business basics you didn't learn in design school. Learn how to draft, review & execute contracts, budget as a freelancer, and create and enforce a scope of work for a client.

May 29, 2025 to August 14, 2025, Online

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

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.

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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.

August 12-14, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
August 12-14, 2025, Online

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.

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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 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.)

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 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.

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 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.

May 29, 2025 to August 14, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

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.

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 2025, East Hall

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.

July 1-24, 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.

May 29, 2025 to August 14, 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 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.

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 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

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.

June 30, 2025 to July 25, 2025, East Hall

Perfume Creation: The Perfumer's Artistry

Gain an intimate view of the perfumer, a creative artist that is also a trained chemist and who has the unique ability to combine fragrance ingredients to create extraordinary, iconic fragrances. Often considered the unsung hero of the fragrance world, the perfumer is a provocative and inspiring creative genius. Meet famous, real-life working perfumers through guest lectures. Survey iconic perfumers, the couture houses and present-day innovators, and their celebrated fragrance creations. Learn about the training and apprenticeship each perfumer must follow to pursue a career in fine fragrance. Senior perfumers from the major global fragrance houses will join the class for lectures and conversations about their approach to fragrance development, the ingredients that inspire them, and their unique olfactive styles. We will explore the process of fragrance creation and emerging new ingredient technologies, consumer trends and perfumer styles.

July 8, 2025 to August 12, 2025, Online

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.

June 30, 2025 to July 24, 2025, 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.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, 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.

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, Online

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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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.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, 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.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Online

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

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.

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 2025, Online

The Future of Food: Digitally Led Experiments to Inform Eating

The future of food is both exciting and frightening. How we eat and look at food is influenced by our cultural backgrounds, tastebuds, time, and curiosity. Bring your own perspective to the table, with the goal of re-thinking ways of eating and preparing food. Before jumping into making, investigate molecular gastronomy, Antoni Miralda's Wheat & Steak parade, Michael Rakowitz' Enemy Kitchen, the Bad Taste project, Salvador Dalí's surrealist cookbook, Alison Knowles Make a Salad, Thomas Thwaites' The Toaster Project, and other related projects.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

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.

May 18, 2025 to June 22, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
May 20, 2025 to June 5, 2025, Pratt Manhattan
May 20, 2025 to June 5, 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

UX/UI Portfolio/Project Development

Build the confidence to take the next step in your design career. Your portfolio isn't just a showcase of your work: it's the key to landing your next opportunity. Learn how to craft compelling case studies, choose the right platform to host your portfolio, and optimize your entire job search package-including your resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letter.

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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.

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 2025, Online

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

ELL Portfolio Certificate Course

Tell a story in English. Create a digital portfolio documenting your language learning process and experiences outside the classroom on virtual and in-person class trips to museums, galleries, and other creative spaces throughout New York City. Improve the English of your design portfolio for college admission, or career advancement.

May 26, 2025 to July 31, 2025, Online