Pratt Graduate "In Dialogue" Wins Six Prestigious Design Awards

Front and back cover of Pratt In Dialogue publication featuring typographic quotation marks and minimalist white design

Image: Quotation marks bookend the publication—setting the tone for a project built entirely on shared dialogue

We are exited to announce that "In Dialogue," the book we developed for the Pratt Graduate Communications Design department has won multiple awards.

The awards include a Graphis Design Annual Silver Award, 50 Books | 50 Covers Award of Excellence for Book Cover Design, a Core77 Notable Award in Visual Communication, a GOOD®  Design Award, a Print Regional Design Annual Award, and a University & College Designers Association Silver Award. As a winner, the book has been published in the 2015 Graphis Design Annual, the 2015 Print Regional Design Annual, the 50 Books | 50 Covers Book, the 2015 GOOD® Design Yearbook, and was featured at the University & College Designers Association Exhibition, and the 50 Books | 50 Covers Winners Exhibition at the 2015 AIGA National Design Conference in New Orleans, LA.

The Pratt Graduate Communications Design department wanted to express its core qualities to prospective students, and Level Design Partner Jennifer Bernstein / Visiting Associate Professor GradComdD was asked to lead that effort. GradComD students (now alumni) Sarah Bradford, Kristen Myers, Eduardo Palma, and Robert Wilson were hired by Level as interns to help shape how the department would be represented to future applicants.

Visual index spread from Pratt In Dialogue featuring student work and design projects in a colorful grid

Image: Student work appears in context — not just as outcome, but as part of a larger conversation

Opening spread of roundtable section in Pratt In Dialogue with overhead photography and participant names

Image: Each roundtable opened with a full-spread moment — introducing the space, participants, and prompt all at once

Interior spread from Pratt In Dialogue publication showing informal roundtable discussion and overlapping dialogue

Image: Layered voices, candid body language, and unscripted moments shaped the rhythm of the roundtable spreads

I cannot thank you enough for what is a jewel of an outcome. I am certain that the publication will engage a broad range of readers; and so it should! The hard work shows, page after page, from front cover to back cover. I am very impressed with your group, as well with all singular individuals represented. Many, many kudos. Many, many thanks!

— Santiago Piedrafita, Chairperson, Graduate Communications Design,
Pratt Institute 

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