DESIGN:MATCH — Our Annual Products of Design Job Fair

Written By Allan Chochinov
Design Match event at PoD with tables full of company reps and students showing their design work on laptops

What is the SVA MFA Products of Design Job Fair?

Every year in February, MFA Products of Design invites and hosts world-leading organizations and companies to spend the afternoon interviewing our students. Each student meets with approximately 10 companies, and repeats the process during both their first- and second-year studies.

Two reps from Google Creative Labs are watching a student show their design work for the annual job fair

Top Design Firms Attend Our Career Fair

Below is a (shortened) of the companies who have attended (and often returned yearly!) and met with PoD students:

Amazon
Amex
Areaware
Argo
Buzzfeed
Centers for Disease Control
Code and Theory
Collins
Doblin
Ebay
Etsy
Fahrenheit 212
Fjord

frog Design
Google Creative Lab
Google Research
Greater Good Studio
Huge
IBM Design
IDEO
IDEO.org
J&J Design (Johnson & Johnson)
Kickstarter
LEGO
Lippincott
Local Projects
Luminary Labs
Lyft
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

Memorial Sloan Kettering
Nike Foundation
Pentagram
PepsiCo Design & Innovation
Public Policy Lab
R/GA
Sesame Street Workshop
Smart Design
Spotify
SYPartners
Terreform ONE
UNICEF Office of Innovation
WeWork
Wix

These companies are leaders in physical product design, digital product design, graphic design, branding, service design, social impact design, environmental design, digital platform design, environmental design, experience design, healthcare, finance, public policy, music streaming, co-working platforms, crowdfunding, and philanthropy.

Benefits of Our Design Job Fair

Products of Design students host and attend our Job Fair event twice during their MFA degree, meeting with close to 20 top design firms and global organizations. In addition to finding out if they are a good “match” for employment, the event helps students refine their interviewing skills, optimize their portfolios and résumés, and—perhaps most importantly—build their network. Student prepare for the event by working with portfolio and interviewing industry experts, and arrive to the day confident and fortified.

A PoD student sits across from a Design firm rep and is smiling while she listens
A group of students mingle with company reps at the cocktail hour
Orange wedges inside each glass as they are being prepared for cocktails
 

“The people and ideas coming out of Products of Design are the future of design. The multi-disciplinary approach and systems-level thinking that is applied within the program is truly unique and gives us a contemporary design practice for shaping the future.”
—Lindsay Ellerby, Normative

 
A student sits across from a design firm rep and explains their work while sharing their laptop screen
A table full of design company names including Local Projects, Google Creative Lab, Motivate, IDEO, IBM Design, Pentagram, and others.
PoD Chair Allan Chochinov gives opening remarks at the annual Job Fair

Check out extensive coverage of past Job Fair events below!

Allan Chochinov
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