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Seeking to create solutions that narrow the gap between the existing and the desired.

1968
Year of Department Establishment
3000+
Design Alumni
18:1
Student to Instructor Ratio

Design is all around us, but how designers think through their work is often a mystery. Understanding that process can fuel our own curiosity and creativity. Adam Fromme hosts the Thinking through Design podcast as a series of in-depth discussions to reveal the designer's mindset and realize its value.

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Seeking Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Computational Visual Design

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January 13 - January 24, 2025

The Art of Storytelling Through Chairs

Wexner Center for the Arts
Jen Wood (Melbourne, Australia) and Emanuel Admassu (Adis Ababa, Ethiopia)
February 12, 2025

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Wexner Center for the Arts - Film/Video Theater

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First Annual Department-Wide Design Charrette

By Lukas Cinko

A charrette is an opportunity for a community to come together to brainstorm, workshop, and collaborate to create, design, and manufacture a vision or prototype to fulfill a given prompt or…

Undergraduate Students collaborating on a project

Ohio State’s industrial design program charting path for changing landscape

When Ohio State students decide to pursue industrial design within the Department of Design, they can rest assured knowing they are learning from the industry standard.

Three professors…

A person wearing a VR headset with their right arm extended and a screen in the background showing what the person is seeing.

Ohio State Design Launches Cutting-Edge Major in Experiential Media Design

By Fabienne Münch, Ph.D.

The future of design is here—and it's immersive, interactive, and wildly creative! 

The Ohio State University is proud to introduce a groundbreaking new undergraduate major in…

Charismatic Objects for Foley Sounds

By Amanda Huynh

In the annual Industrial Design Charrette, students from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years are grouped together and given a prompt that challenges them to apply their design skills to a different…

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Cidney Jones-Lawson
MFA Candidate, DRD
jones-lawson.1@osu.edu
Fateme Maklavani
MFA Candidate, DRD | Graduate Associate
maklavani.1@osu.edu
Amanda Huynh
Associate Professor | Industrial Design Coordinator
huynh.310@osu.edu
Maria Palazzi
Professor | Ohio Eminent Scholar in Art and Design Technology
palazzi.1@osu.edu

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