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The Choreography of City Work: Orientation Week at PoD 2024
The Class of 2026 kicks off Orientation Week with our annual Futuring Workshop, exploring what the future of work might look like in New York City.
Q&A: New Interaction Design Faculty Member Iris Sprague!
Iris Sprague is joining MFA Products of Design this year to teach Interaction Design Essentials. We sat down with Sprague, currently a Senior Product Designer at Google, to learn more about her own design evolution and what she’s looking forward to with her course.
Products of Design Wins at the Core77 2024 Design Awards!
Congratulations to Charvi Shrimali ’23, Shun Cheng Hsieh ’24, Nigel Keen ’24, and Jacey Chen ’24 on their wins at this year’s Core77 Design Awards in the Speculative Design and Sports & Outdoors categories.
Snapshots from E11VEN: Our 2024 Thesis Presentations!
On May 7th, 2024, the eleventh group of MFA Products of Design graduates presented their final thesis projects. Friends, family, design professionals, faculty, and staff gathered at the SVA Theatre in New York City to watch and share in the festivities. Ranging in topics from Designing for Esport Althetes and Exploring Therapeutic Avenues for Nightmares, to Menstrual Confidence and Elevating Women as Climate Change Agents, the graduates shared hundreds of products, services, apps, platforms, and experiences throughout the day-long event. Check out more projects from this year’s graduates, here, and enjoy some snapshots of the day below!
Products of Design *LIVE!* at ICFF for NYCxDesign
Products of Design has been renowned for creating innovative exhibitions for New York’s NYCxDESIGN week, and this year was no different. For the 2024 Wanted Design show at the ICFF, we created a facsimile of the department inside a booth, calling the exhibition “Products of Design, Live!”
Consulting for Creative Businesses with Emily Cohen and Hunter Vargas - Full Video
Emily Cohen and Hunter Vargas, the mother-daughter team behind Casa Davka, joined us to discuss their work guiding creative firms in refining, evolving, and elevating their strategies and practices.
Explorations in AR & Synthetic Ecologies: Yasaman Sheri’s Design Journey - Full Video
Creative Director, Interface Designer, and Researcher Yasaman Sheri discusses how she’s leveraging emerging technologies to investigate synthetic biology, aesthetics of simulation, objects, and perception systems.
From Pica to Pixels: Tala Safié’s Design Journey - Full Video
New York Times graphics and multimedia editor Tala Safié discusses her transition from print to digital, her penchant for playful experimentation, and the power that good design can wield.
Announcing E11VEN: MFA Products of Design Thesis Presentations are May 7th!
We invite you to attend the 11th Annual Master’s Thesis Presentations—of the 2024 graduating class of the MFA in Products of Design program—live at the SVA Theatre on Tuesday, May 7th from 1:00pm - 6:00pm (EDT, GMT-4). Sixteen graduating master’s students will each present their year-long thesis work comprised of research, artifacts, services, experiences, and platforms.