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Interior Design Students Team Up During Week-Long Charette

By Emily Valentine

Interior design major students recently participated in an inspiring week-long charette to design a place of respite for college students. For the first time, students from all three years of the…

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Alphabet of the Earth: Crafting a Typeface from Nature for a Fictional Language

By Yvette Shen

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…

The Estrella High-Rise Unites Ohio State Students and Design Professionals

By Yvette Shen

The Spring Term brings a unique opportunity between Ohio State Design's VLab and a local real estate developer, Bluestone Brothers. In this year’s Collaborative Studio, six teams of…

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Made and Sold By Design: Recap of the 2023 Design Winter Market Event

By William Nickley

On the cold and clear morning of December 6, 2023, on the edge of Ohio State’s Oval, the front steps of Hayes Hall were abuzz as Urban Arts Space hosted the Sixth Annual Design Winter Market. This…

Kai McKinney

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…

Elaine Smith Wins 2023 Trauma Center Association of America National Injury Prevention Day Media Contest

Third-Year Visual Communication Design student, Elaine Smith, won first place in the 2023 Trauma Centers Association of America National Injury Prevention Day Media Contest. There were 91 national…

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…

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Framery Features the Designers of the Future at The Ohio State University

Student designers at The Ohio State University compete in a unique challenge each year. Their goal is to design a graphic for a Framery pod that will be placed on campus for generations to come.…

Brooke Koch and Averi Wolf accepting their IIDA Student Project of the Year Award.

Fourth-Year Interior Design Students Receive the Student Project of the Year at IIDA Ohio Kentucky Design Awards

By: Averi Wolf and Brooke Koch

At this year’s IIDA Ohio Kentucky Design Awards, fourth year interior design students, Brooke Koch and Averi Wolf, had the honor of receiving the Student…