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What Is Storytelling in Design?
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What Is Storytelling in Design?

Storytelling in design involves using visual elements to create a narrative for your audience. Audiences want to form connections with brands and products. They want to feel that brands understand their motivations, struggles, hopes, and desires. Brands do this by creating designs that fulfill desires or overcome struggles. 

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Open House & Info Sessions (Copy BEFORE THE EVENTS)
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Open House & Info Sessions (Copy BEFORE THE EVENTS)

This year we will be offering 2 Open House and Info Sessions—one in-person on Friday, November 11th at 6:30pm EST, and another virtual (over Zoom) on Thursday, December 9th at 6:30pm EST! Both events will offer a full house of visitors, prospective students, faculty, alumni, and students, and if you can make the in-person session on November 11th, you’ll be able to tour the space, check out the Visible Futures Lab Next Door, and hang out with everyone here!

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A Guide to Becoming a Product Designer
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A Guide to Becoming a Product Designer

A product designer is an essential member of any design or digital team. They are the person responsible for overseeing and collaborating on the design, usability, and experience of any physical or digital product. In addition to overseeing the visual aspects of a product, product designers make sure a business’s goals are within reach by optimizing the product to meet a user’s needs in an intuitive, functional way.

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2022 NYC Halloween Parade Costumes!
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2022 NYC Halloween Parade Costumes!

Every year, our first-year students design and build Halloween costumes as part of their Making Studios. Following the builds, faculty Becky Stern and the students head downtown to join the annual NYC Halloween Parade—drawing over 50,000 participants this year! Check out some snapshots below. Thanks to Becky and students for the photos!

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What Is Design For Social Impact?
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What Is Design For Social Impact?

Design for social impact is the practice of interrogating systems—institutional, economic, social, political, interpersonal—in order to define opportunities for change that give voice to those who has been disenfranchised or marginalized by design. In essence, this field of study provides a methodology for examining domains of power through Socratic inquiry, structural and systems-based design thinking, and solutions-based design making.

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