Student News



Design Milk features School of Constructed Environments at Parsons End of Year Exhibition

“School of Constructed Environments at Parsons Shares Its 2024 End-of-Year Exhibition”  Head to their website for a more in-depth look at some of the amazing MFA Industrial Design projects from the School of Constructed Environments End of Year Exhibition. Journalist Kelly Beall writes “Nothing tops the dedication and intensity poured …


Faculty Eva Perez de Vega and her M.Arch Design Studio 1 students participate in the Gingerbread City exhibition at Southstreet Seaport Museum, Invited by the Museum of Architecture

Come see the structures and landscapes built out of gingerbread and other edible (compostable!) treats, for the “Urban Flooding” theme of the exhibition. at The Seaport from 18 November 2023 until 7 January 2024 About the Exhibit: The Gingerbread City® is a city of the future, designed and constructed entirely from …


MFA Lighting Design Graduate, Lydia Simpson ’23, Wins IESNYC Thesis Award

Congratulations to 2023 Thesis Award Recipient, Lydia Simpson ’23!   Lydia Simpson is a recent graduate of the Parsons School of Design MFA Lighting Design program. She received a BFA in Design and Technology for Theater from the University of North Georgia and worked as a Lighting Designer in Atlanta …


Announcing the 2023 Collab Student Design Competition

Announcing the annual Collab Student Design Competition, inspired by Stephen Burks   Dear Colleagues, What does the next generation imagine for the future of design? Every year, university-level design students respond to a unique challenge that affects daily life with the best designs, which are showcased by Collab and the Philadelphia Museum of …


The Global Design Graduate Show 2023 in collaboration with Gucci & Google Arts & Culture has launched and the deadline is August 31st.

Call out! @artsthread’s @globaldesigngraduateshow 2023 in collaboration with @gucci is now accepting submissions from all art and design BA & MA art & design students graduating between September 2022 – August 2023 (Southern hemisphere graduating after September 2022), across any related creative discipline, from anywhere in the world!  Visit http://globaldesigngraduateshow.com …


Things to Live With. Parsons MFA of Industrial Design class of 2023 at Wanted Design.

Students from the MFA Industrial Design, 2023 graduating class presented Thesis projects with Wanted Design as part of ICFF at the Javits Center in NYC.


Unmaking, Making, Remaking. Parsons MFA of Industrial Design class of 2023.

Students from the MFA Industrial Design, 2023 Graduating class presented Thesis projects at Ludlow/SOMMwhere as part of NYCxDesign during the NYC design week.


MFA Industrial Design Students Win NYCxDesign Awards for Innovative, Sustainable Projects

The MFA in Industrial Design at Parsons School of Design gives students the opportunity to explore making in a variety of contexts, develop critical thinking skills, and integrate ideas about sustainability, consumerism, production, and more into their practice. Recently, three students from the program were awarded NYCxDesign Student Awards for …


Nicholas Byrne, MFA Lighting Design ’23, Co-Founder of recycleReality Awarded Two OBIE Awards as 2022 “Breakthrough Artist”

Parsons-founded creative technology studio, recycleReality, just won two OBIE Awards as part of the 2022 “Breakthrough Artist” ad campaign with Amazon Music and Overall Murals. The campaign won the OBIE Craft Award for Best Illustration and a Silver OBIE Award in the Billboards category. These awards are presented annually by …


IESNYC Announces Yun-Hsuan Tsai, MFA Lighting Design, as 2023 Merit Scholarship Recipient

The IESNYC is proud to announce that Yun-Hsuan Tsai have been selected as one of two recipients of the 2023 IESNYC Merit Scholarship. This year’s selection process was highly competitive, with two exceptional candidates. As a result, the committee made the rare decision to award two recipients, supporting each of …