Student News



MFA IDD project is chosen by IKEA hackers

Congratulations to MFA Industrial Design students Jane Voronovich, Tirth Engineer, and Shayn Jackson whose Advanced Model Methods project was chosen by Ikea hackers. Velumen Divider is a design exploration of accessible ways to reimagine home environment and create private spaces using simple and inexpensive objects such as an outdoor trellis. You …


Bingxin Yu (MFA Interior Design 2022) Winner in Interior Design magazine’s Best of Year Awards 2020

Bingxin Yu (MFA Interior Design 2022) has been announced as a winner in Interior Design magazine Best of Year Awards 2020. Congratulations Bingxin!


IDSA Seminar with Sam Stewart

IDSA is hosting a seminar with guest speaker Sam Stewart on December 9th at 6pm. Sam is a New York based artist whose work resembles and functions as household furniture and domestic objects. As sculptures, they often take on animalistic qualities that border on the absurd and whimsical. Please note …


SCE Names This Year’s Yabu Pushelberg Scholar

In fall 2016, the Toronto-based interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg provided a generous gift to endow a permanent, named scholarship for a student in the Interior Design Program at Parsons. This scholarship honors the firm’s ongoing commitment to excellence in design education and its dedication to the promotion of creativity …


OSD Design Firm Works on Open Street Plan for Flatiron District

Over the summer, Simon David, Founding Principal of OSD design firm and Parsons BFA Architecture professor, has been working on an open street plan for the Flatiron Business District together with a couple of students from his New Green Deal spring 2020 studio. Studying pedestrian patterns during the pandemic has …


HML Desigm Contest

Contest Brief: Impacts of design decisions are far-reaching, inescapable, and indisputable. As designers, the questions we continually ask ourselves are: how does what I make impact the world at large? What materials am I using? Who am I designing for and are my designs inclusive? How can materials be used …


Space Planner Wanted

The Office of Space Planning at TNS is looking for a space planner to join their team and help support the Office’s mission through planning, managing, assessing and recording the University’s diverse and evolving space inventory. To find more about the position and apply, please see the official job posting.


The GREEN Scholarship Program with the Think Company

In partnership with the GREEN Program, The Think Company is providing a scholarship opportunity for the spring program cycle. The GREEN initiative is aimed at project-based education and hands-on industry exposure for future sustainability leaders. It is based on designing immersive, short-term programs for undergraduate and graduate students in a …


SCE Launches a Competition with Moroccanoil

Can luxury be sustainable? Sustainability is not a luxury — it is a necessity. While some companies around the world have been shifting gears and making sustainability their language(s), Parsons design community is on a path to crack it open… Starting from the hair care products on our shelves. This …


Azimut Yachts Competition 2019

Azimut Yachts is calling for a highly innovative and creative project aimed at transport and industrial designers as well as interior spaces designers.  The task is to design the exterior OR the interior of a new day cruiser to be launched under the Atlantis Collection of the brand. THE PRIZE: …