Class of 2017: Career Night at Pratt

  Graduation season has begun, and the class of 2017 is wasting no time. “I tell students that the portfolio is really important,” says Jon Otis, professor of interior design at Pratt Institute, about his graduating class who attended a career night on April 12th. I also tell them it’s critical how they project themselves in an interview.” Mr. Otis is a principal of Object Agency and Professor of Interior Design at Pratt Institute, which is located with the schools of Architecture, Art and Design on a 25-acre campus in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The programs have attracted a diverse student population, which has grown exponentially since Pratt’s inception in 1887. This year enrollment comprises 4,700 students with approximately 100 undergrad and graduate students earning diplomas in interior design. Many of those students attended the 14th annual Pratt Career Night – originally the creation of Mr. Otis, a group of graduate …