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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…

Breaking Bias and Clichés in AI-Driven Visual Design

By Yvette Shen

Visual Communication Design students from 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years kicked off the Spring 2025 semester with a week-long Design Charrette exploring the impact of AI-generated imagery on cultural…

33rd Annual Edith Fergus Gilmore Scholarship Exhibition

Design Foundations student featured in 33rd Annual Edith Fergus Gilmore Scholarship Exhibition

By Gabe Tippery

Congratulations to Design Foundations student Faith Schneider on being selected to participate in the 33rd Annual Edith Fergus Gilmore Scholarship Exhibition. 

The Edith …

Left to Right, Bryce, Emily, and Sam

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…
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…

Global Student Retail Design Fest

Interior Design Students Participate in Global Student Retail Design Fest

By Rebekah Matheny
On Thursday Nov 7th, Associate Professor Rebekah Matheny organized and facilitated the Global Student Retail Design Fest for the Design Research Society's (DRS) Designing Retail and Services Futures…