Pratt Institute News

Kristin Gahona, daughter of Donna and Leo Gahona of Hillsborough, graduated magna cum laude at Rutgers University on May 22, with a bachelor of arts degree in American studies and history/political science.

Aperture , Pratt, and the Strand Book Store are pleased to announce the winners of the Eye on the Strand photography contest, which kicked off last fall and concluded March 31, 2009.

Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel meets a love interest named Scratte in 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.' Published: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Hope and Vince Cusick of Hampstead will probably be heading to the movies this weekend to catch "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." Not that they're ...

At a time when legal gay marriage is spreading across the country and when "American Idol's" Adam Lambert's coming out on the cover of Rolling Stone elicits not a gasp but a shrug, it's easy to forget just how shameful and bewildering being gay in America can be.

The Swedish Design Award , presented to exemplary objects across a diverse span of categories, demands of its recipients that their work be sustainable, financially viable, and perform in practice as well as they might have appeared as concepts.

MONHEGAN : Frances Kornbluth, artist and longtime summer resident, is exhibiting 15 to 20 pieces done between 1975 and 2005 in the dining room at The Island Inn on Monhegan Avenue.

Toyko Canal, Houseboat, a watercolor by Mario Cooper is part of the exhibition that opens Friday.

" Skyrocketing home foreclosures struck Brooklyn hard over the past year, and to address the issue and help homeowners in two hard-hit neighborhoods, Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Congressman Edolphus "Ed" Towns held a community workshop at Pratt Institute.

To see the photogallery for this and other area graduations, click here. Days of dreary weather gave way to sunshine Friday afternoon for the graduates of Central Bucks South High School's Class of 2009.

If Norm Coleman should win the disputed Senate seat in Minnesota he will be the third graduate of Brooklyna TMs James Madison High School to serve in the current U.S. Senate.

Love this. Marianne van Ooij wrote to me today to tell me about a product that she introduced this past May at the ICFF in New York called Slim Shelving .

"I just really love old industrial design, like the shape of it," Odell said. "It's something that you never see anymore." Odell, a 2008 graduate of Pratt Institute in New York who majored in painting and minored in art history, is presenting her first art exhibit in a gallery setting at Newburyport's Firehouse's Center for the Arts.

If you like strategic design thinking with a healthy dose of green, check out the new CATALYST Strategic Design Review , produced by the graduate Design Management Program at Pratt Institute and edited by Erin Weber.

BROOKLYN a ' As graduation season draws to a close after getting into full swing last month, political speakers in particular were in hot demand across the country this year.

The National Gallery of Art has commissioned American sculptor Roxy Paine to make a stainless steel Dendroid, as the artist calls his series of treea 'like sculptures.

Perkins, Montgomery, et al NEW YORK CITY-Whistles, shouts and the big inflatable rat used by construction unions to mark non-union work-sites greeted attendees of a New York State Senate "fact finding" hearing that attempted to have a look at the controversy-laden Atlantic Yards project this past Friday at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Having walked, driven or observed the streets of Detroit for many years, an industrial designer by occupation recalled those images as he entered retirement.

Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner is poised to receive new generous terms from the MTA that could jumpstart his stalled mega-project even as a new report revealed that the city and state would actually lose money on the $4-billion arena, housing and office complex.

So, why was Brooklyn Day , the Forest City Ratner-sponsored event June 5 at Borough Hall, such a dud , while the FCR-orchestrated response at the state Senate oversight hearing on Friday succeeded in disrupting the event and--in some news accounts --overshadowed more analytical coverage ? Here are a couple of suggestions: 1) It's easier to be ...

State Senators held a public hearing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on Friday to get a sense of where things stand for developer Bruce Ratner's $4.2 billion dollar dream of building a Nets arena and mixed-use towers on a 22-acre site that includes part of the MTA railyards.