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Welcoming the Year of Snake with Creativity & Community

Welcoming the Year of Snake with Creativity & Community

By Yvette Shen

The Department of Design faculty and students came together to celebrate the Lunar New Year with delicious Asian cuisine and hands-on paper lantern-making activities! It was a wonderful time of…

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Students Employ Experimental Materials in Sneaker Design Project

By Avery Gillis

Playing cards, shredded paper, and soap are just a few of the materials used by the Spring 2025 Materials & Processes for Industrial Design students on their first assignment of the semester:…

AD-WO Visiting Artist Series

AD—WO in Conversation

By Adam Fromme

Join AD—WO, a globally renowned New York art and architecture practice, for a conversation about their work and the forces shaping our streetscapes and public spaces. Everyone is welcome to…

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 …