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Featured Projects
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SafePub: The Best Way to Enjoy a Hassle-Free Night Out
First-year student Anne Keating created SafePub, a speculative project that commits to women and vulnerable minorities’ safety. Prioritizing the well being of women and LGBTQ+ individuals, the project envisions a network of allies in the form of pub owners, staff, taxi drivers, and local law enforcement.
"Frubo" Fruit Bowl: A Case Study in Product, Brand, and Experience
Frubo is a fruit bowl with a modern aesthetic and a hidden agenda. Masquerading as a simple piece of home decor to store fruits and vegetables, Frubo creates a space for the user to store fruits that they want to consume immediately on the upper platter, and fruits that they would save for another day in the bottom portion of the container. Frubo is designed to live everywhere except the kitchen, with the intent of treating fruits the same way that we treat flowers: as pieces of beauty to be enjoyed at the height of their bloom.
2nd Annual Products of Design Holiday Gift Guide!
It’s that time of year again! We’re thrilled to bring you our second annual MFA Products of Design Holiday Gift Guide, featuring dynamic and delightful objects and interventions by MFA PoD alumni, faculty, lecturers, and guests. This year, in these highly virtual times, we’re thinking more expansively about what a “gift” might mean. Click below to check out products, events, courses, and experiences designed by our PoD community at large.
Brand New MoMA Product: Roller Coasters!
One of the most anticipated products to come out of PoD’s partnership with MoMA is the set of Roller Coasters—ingenious drink coasters designed by Class of 2020 alum Hui Zheng. Check it out on the MoMA Store website!
The Solar Sleeve: Power on the Go
First year Katy Yuelapwan created the The Solar Sleeve featuring a top layer with solar cells embedded amongst the curvilinear surface, with a bottom layer with silicone straps, and a button that connects both layers. The button allows the product to conserve energy and for the two parts to nestle into each other when they are not in use. It allows the user to use stored up energy as they are walking through a desert wasteland in 2052. The challenges of this project were fitting functionality within the form that was distinguishable as an iteration. The successes of this project lied within utilizing Keyshot to implement Katy’s vision with materiality in mind.
Narrateam: Open-Sourcing Intersectional Feminist Resources
First-year, Margarita Zulueta created Narrateam, a platform that offers a centralized database for intersectional feminists to provide their own narratives and learn from the narratives of others, in order to gain a better understanding of the movement. Narrateam members can use the platform to share resources, events, and news items that are relevant to the movement and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations.
Steam Mouse Iron
For 3DPD1, first-year Qiting Fang created the Steam Mouse iron. She initially looked at the form of curvilinear and planar volumes before function was given to the product. Qiting worked through many iterations and landed on this wonderful redesign of a widely used home good.