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Alphabet of the Earth: Crafting a Typeface from Nature for a Fictional Language
The first Monday of the semester, Visual Communication Design students joined forces in an all-day designathon. Diverse grade teams collaborated to design typefaces that embody the multifaceted…

Department Chair and Professor Attend World Design Assembly in Tokyo Representing Ohio State
Department of Design Chair, Professor Fabienne Münch, and Associate Professor Peter Chan, attended the World Design Assembly Tokyo 2023. This global congregation, orchestrated by the Japan…

Ohio State Industrial Design alum, Kai McKinney, helps build startups with product development firm
After graduating from Ohio State University in 2021, Kai McKinney gave himself a "startup gap year" to try building a company. The bet on himself paid off.
Relay, the product…

Ohio State Design Well Represented at CSCA’s Annual Creative Best Awards
CSCA’s annual Creative Best awards event took place on 16 November at Vue Columbus in the Brewery District. Creative Best is the annual awards competition held by the Columbus Society of…

MFA Alumnus Taurean Jones featured in Ohio State Alumni Magazine
Design Research and Development, 2011
Taurean Jones was featured in Ohio State Alumni Magazine. He is the Director of Design at Intuit with several years of experience leading product…

Distinguished MA Alumnus Dr. Prasad Boradkar, Dean of the College of Design, University of Minnesota
Congratulations to Dr. Prasad Boradkar, who was named Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He is a designer, anthropologist, educator, and researcher with several years of…

Interior Design Alumna Gabby McCloy Featured on Gensler’s Blog
Gabby McCloy is a 2021 alumna from the BSD - Interior Design program here at Ohio State. Gabby is now a designer at Gensler and was recently featured on their blog sharing her voice and…

MFA Alumna Leah Coleman, Assistant Professor at CCAD
Congratulations to Department of Design’s MFA alumna Leah Coleman, who joined the Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) as an Assistant Professor of Animation. She is one of the new faculty…

MFA Alumnus Erik Evensen, Professor of Design at the University of Wisconsin–Stout
Please join the Department of Design in congratulating Erik Evensen (MFA 2009), who has been promoted to the rank of Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. Erik has been at UW-Stout since…