Courses

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?

January 26, 2026 to April 13, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

Content Direction I: Personal Vision and Commercial Practice

Explore the drivers, priorities, and processes that shape individual proactive visual practice through contemporary and historical examples. Discover how personal perspectives can inform commercial practice and learn about the creative role of collaboration when making work, and the impacts of different distribution channels in spreading ideas to a broader audience.

January 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

Content Direction II: Professional Practice for Visual Creatives

Develop an awareness, process, and vocabulary for communicating in professional environments of advertising, branding, editorial, marketing, design, photography, videography, and multimedia production while building a personal brand. Learn how to bring creativity and vision to commissioned and commercial work. Create a professional portfolio, or deck, and strategies for networking and cultivating employment opportunities in Content Creation, or Creative Direction.

January 27, 2026 to April 14, 2026, 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.

January 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, 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.

January 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, 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.

January 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, Hybrid/ 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.

April 20, 2026 to May 15, 2026, Accelerated Online

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 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

Original Thought

Develop your unique creative value to stay essential in the age of AI.As creators-artists and writers, graphic designers and art directors-AI is one of the most critical tools to use and master. At the same time, AI is mastering our skills. How can you use AI to enhance creativity, while making sure you outshine it? This course will teach you the art of original thought, and help you develop the one thing AI can never replace: your unique creative value.

January 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

Purpose-Driven Marketing

The health and wellness market is projected to reach nine trillion USD in 2028. Develop a purpose-driven advertising campaign where it matters most in the global economy of human health and wellness. What's the secret behind Cannes Award-winning campaigns like Dove's Real Beauty or Spotify's Take a Beat? Find out step by step as you build your own showcase portfolio piece. All you need to bring is your imagination and a passion to inspire change and drive action.

January 26, 2026 to April 13, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

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.

January 29, 2026 to April 16, 2026, Pratt Manhattan