DESIGN:MATCH — Our Annual Products of Design Job Fair

Twice over the 2-year program, students meet face-to-face with world-leading companies, organizations, and VCs

Where do our alumni work, and how do they get there?

Graduates of our SVA MFA design program go on to work in top design organizations both in New York City and around the world. Just some of the places where our students are now working include: Apple, Legom Johnson & Johnson, IDEO, Frog Design, Google, Microsoft, Pentagram, Code & Theory, Deloitte, Spotify, Tinder, 18F, JP Morgan, Tiffany, and American Express. A big part of getting our students connected to these leading companies starts at our annual job fair event!

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.

Top Design Firms Attend Our Career Fair

Below is a (shortened) list 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

  • Greater Good Studio

  • Huge

  • IBM Design

  • IDEO

  • IDEO.org

  • J&J Design (Johnson & Johnson)

  • Kickstarter

  • LEGO

  • Lippincott

  • Local Projects

  • Luminary Labs

  • Lyft

  • Mayo Clinic 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 one-on-one with over 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. Students prepare for the event by working with portfolio coaches, résumé coaches, and interviewing industry experts to arrive at the event confident and fortified.

“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

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