Pratt Career Night 2015

As creative communities go, the architecture and designA&D community in New York is pretty unique. Resiliency is part and parcel of living in a dense urban environment; most of us are professional, welcoming, full of good cheer – – and there’s a fair amount of gossip. We tend to celebrate and cultivate our creativity more than scrutinize or cannibalize it, at least when the economy is doing well, and it is certainly doing well these days. One of the more uplifting annual events in the A&D community that encourages opportunities for young designers just entering the workforce is the Pratt Career Night. Hosted by Jon Otis, owner of Object Agency and pProfessor of the Exhibition Design Intensive Program at Pratt Institute, and joined by Stone Source Direct Senior Vice President Diane Barnes at the New York Stone Source showroom, this introduction to the business of networking between students and senior …