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Interior Design Students Ideas Reinvigorating Ohio State Campus

January 12, 2026

Interior Design Students Ideas Reinvigorating Ohio State Campus

The new Journalism Building lobby

Across The Ohio State University Columbus campus, students will find four soundproof pods from Framery, an office design company. Since they arrived in 2019, the pods have each been wrapped in unique, student-created designs. The designs are the result of an annual contest that is part of the Junior Interior Design Studio, taught by Rebekah Matheny.

Matheny, an associate professor in the Department of Design in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been with Ohio State since 2014. She developed the studio course after guiding a winning Ohio State team through a Big Ten Academic Alliance design competition in 2018.