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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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Ohio State Visual Communication Design Students Recognized at CSCA Creative Best 2024

By Peter Kwok Chan, Ph.D.
The Columbus Society of Communicating Arts (CSCA) hosted its annual Creative Best 2024 event, titled Unbound, on December 5 at The Century in Merion Village. Creative Best is the annual awards…

Haase Leads Mental Health Design Workshop at Poliarte, Italy

By Jeffrey Haase

Jeff Haase facilitated a three-day workshop at Poliarte, a private design university in Ancona, Italy, involving 93 first-year students and 18 upperclassmen from various design disciplines.…

Addy and Drake Winners at 2024 Inspire Innovation Program

By Avery Gillis

Shadrick Addy and Simone Drake’s grant proposal, “Inspiring Empathy and Inclusive Change for Neuro-diverse Individuals in Educational and Workplace Settings through Immersive Technology,” has been…

black and white headshots of the five winners, arranged in a grid, with the College of Arts and Sciences logo

Five industrial design students win Arts Undergraduate Research Scholarships

By William Nickley

Ohio State Design is proud to announce that five undergraduate industrial design students have been awarded the prestigious Arts Undergraduate Research Scholarships (AURS) for 2024. These…

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