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MFA Arch student, Nick Tafel temporarily trades in NYC for Portland
MFA Arch student, Nick Tafel temporarily trades in NYC for Portland. Nick has relocated to Portland, OR for the summer where he will be interning at the Nike headquarters for their Global Retail Design team. The Global Retail Design studio at Nike is responsible for designing retail concepts and environments that are …
Changing Roles of Public Libraries: From User Experience (UX) to Virtual Reality (VR)
Interior Design studio courses often revolve around a specific design challenge. Our AAS Parsons second semester design studio selected the city’s neighborhood library as our focus. In particular we asked Interior Design students to challenge the traditional models of libraries in relation to the emerging technologies of virtuality and computing. …
Prepare to Face-down The Elephant In The Room
Interior Design faculty, Cotter Christian, and Nadia Elrokhsy reflect on the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) 2017 Annual Conference through the Spring 2017 IDEC Exchange, post-conference journal. The Annual Conference couldn’t have had a more appropriately noteworthy keynote speaker than Richard Buchanan. A professor of design and innovation, Buchanan is well …
This is not an urban void
The exhibition Architecture for Curitiba – Expo 2017, will be showing between May and August of 2017, explores new ways of comprehending, thinking and planning a city. The intention was to contribute to the advancement of an architecture discourse and to bring the city back to the avant-garde of architecture …
Core77 awards Parsons Graduates
Congratulations to the Core77 winners! Student Winner, Strategy and Research: Nonliving Stakeholders by Sungmy Kim, MFA Transdisc Design Student Notable, Furniture and Lighting: Cada series by Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design Student Notable, Visual Communications: Tit for Tat by Yunjoo Lee, BFA Communication Design For more information on the Parsons graduates that participated please click HERE!
Spring 2017 Street Seats featured in Design Boom
The Spring 2017 Street Seats created by Parsons students in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, is a multi-level planter creating an organic separation between the road and the sidewalk while providing six benches off the main frame. The structural framework is made from 360 pieces of vietnamese bamboo. …
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 …
Dean Kirkbride presents at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians
On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of …
MFA Industrial Design Matthew Callahan was selected for the NYC x Design Awards.
MFA Industrial Design Matthew Callahan’s BOBO bamboo toy was selected for the NYC x Design Awards at MoMA. The Awards, created by Interior Design magazine and the ICFF, highlight New York-based projects completed throughout the year. Matthew’s BOBO bamboo toy was a project developed in the Global Production studio, taught …
BFA Product Design Senior Sofia Frilund wins 2017 IDSA NE District Student Merit Award
BFA Product Design Senior Sofia Frilund was the winner of the 2017 Student Merit Award for the NE District of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Frilund was selected to represent Parsons and competed against 10 other design schools, presenting projects from 3 years of study in the Product Design …