Last spring, Two MFA Interior Design students, Samantha Obell and Paloma Sherman, won the 2013 International Interior Design Association New York Design This! Competition. Students were given one hour to design the floor of a public space using new DesignFLEX Visualizer software. Obell and Sherman were given a space with …

MFA Interior Design 2012 Alum, Marilila Kyrtata, was selected to be included in GREAT 2013, an exhibition highlighting Greek Architectural Talent. It was one of 41 thesis projects selected out of over 500 submissions. The exhibition opened on May 20, 2013 and will run until June 9, 2013. Lila’s thesis project, …

Design Workshop’s Splash House will be featured in an exhibition titled FitNation, highlighting design, policy, and organizing strategies that encourage a healthier lifestyle. SCE Part-time Faculty members, Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak of Abruzzo Bodziak Architects, designed and curated the show. FitNation exhibition’s opening reception will take place on Thursday, …

Parsons product design students presented 15 projects for the collaboration with Poltrona Frau, ranging from cigar cases and drink coasters to picture frames and candle holders. Students were required to address wastelessness and how the potential production of the pieces would enable the least amount of material waste. The jury panel …

NY IIDA celebrates AAS ID student, Hirofumi Orihara, with their top prize, ‘The Juror’s Award’. Announced at the Student Design Award Party, at Steelcase on April 11, 2013, there were 5 Honorable Mentions ($1,000 each), 3 Awards ($3000 each), and the Jurors Award, which was the top prize, went to …

The recent Parsons installation for DIFFA Dining by Design was featured in the April 2013 issue of Interior Design Magazine. The installation focused on creating an environment  of transformation and change—of topography, of materials and of space.  In their material studies, student worked with common materials such as tyvek and through surface manipulation and …

Tamara Yurovsky, a Dual Masters of Architecture and MFA in Lighting Design student, was recently featured in Design Milk’s “Designer Dailies.” The monthly column documents a day in the life of current, working designers.

AAS Interior Design student, Hirofumi Orihara, is the winner of the Hospitality Design Student Category Award, 2013. His project, The Nature, is of a new hotel typology and was conceived in Studio ID3, taught by Douglas Grieco.

For the second year in a row, Lee Gibson was selected to create a new club concept for the Milan Furniture Fair.

Andy Bernheimer of the School of Constructed environments will be jurying the Little Free Libraries/New York Project. This competition will award ten design teams with $1000 to design and create small-scale libraries to house books. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 4, 2013.