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Parsons SCE + Roche Bobois to design “Seating for Eating”

Photo by Matt Mathews   MFA Industrial Design and BFA Product Design programs are collaborating with the prestigious French furniture design and distribution company, Roche Bobois, in the form of design studios. Students enrolled in the studios will work in teams of two to design innovative prototypes that leverage technology while …


BFA ID students have been announced as two of the thirteen winners of the Angelo Donghia Foundation 2017 Scholars

“Anne-Sophie Granger and Jesse Cermak, BFA Interior Design students have been announced as two of the thirteen winners of the Angelo Donghia Foundation 2017 Student Scholarship Program in Interior Design. Their work was selected out of a pool of 69 student projects from accredited interior design institutions across the country. …


Lani Adeoye (Studio-Lani) wins WantedDesign’s Launch Pad Furniture Category

Parsons Alumni Lani Adeoye’s, Talking Tables collection was the Jury’s favorite at WantedDesign’s Launch Pad. A competition presented by Design Milk and Design Within Reach. Her winning collection (The Talking Tables) derive their form and essence from iconic West African musical instruments like the Talking Drum. Hand-welded steel, turned wood …


‘Give it to the cause’ – Parsons MFA Interior Design students represent at DIFFA

‘Give it to the cause’ – Parsons MFA Interior Design students (Sarah Burns, Lena Kouvela, Joel Rice) represented The School of Constructed Environments well at the annual DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids) ‘Dinning by Design’ event which was held this past week, March 16-20 at Pier 92 in New York.  …


Design-driven Swiss watchmaker Rado announced its continued sponsorship as the official watch brand of NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official celebration of global design

Design-driven Swiss watchmaker Rado announced its continued sponsorship as the official watch brand of NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official celebration of global design. As part of NYCxDESIGN, together with WantedDesign, Rado will launch, for its second year, the U.S. edition of the Rado Star Prize, which is held internationally to promote the …


MFA Industrial Design Students Win “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!”

MFA Industrial Design Students Win “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!” We congratulate 2nd year MFA Industrial Design students Ari Elefterin and Matt Callahan for their “Leave No Trace Leaf Knife” in the  “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!” Projects were created in the course entitled Life Cycle Analysis in which students entered the …


American Chemical Society: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

American Chemical Society 2017 National Conference, 
San Francisco, CA: April 2nd-6th “Chemistry & the Design of Physical Objects: Innovations from 1950 to the Present” CALL FOR ABSTRACTS  Deadline for Submissions: October 31, 2016 Innovations in chemistry, specifically the development of new materials and new reactions, can both drive and be driven …


Submission Opportunity: Metropolis’s New Design Competition

Metropolis’s New Design Competition are hosting a design contest called Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition which challenges designers and architects to envision how the office of the future will support workers’ needs for privacy, light, nature, noise reduction, community, and health. As work-life balance increasingly gives way to work-life integration, we …


Leela Shankar and Samuel Powers Win IESNYC Student Competition

This year’s theme, “Temporal Illuminance,” asked students to interpret how light is interwoven with time and memory.