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Design alum helps Otterbein students design the future of Columbus transportation
Central Ohio is only getting bigger.
The population of Columbus alone grew 15% between the 2010 and 2020 census, topping 900,000 people for the first time. The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning…

Assistant Professor Yvette Shen named to AIGA DEC Steering Committee
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yvette Shen on being named to AIGA DEC Steering Committee!
The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) seeks to enhance the abilities of design…

Lydia Yahn keeping busy – Intern and Entrepreneur
Lydia Yahn is a Visual Communication Design student at The Ohio State University and is going into her final year this fall. Lydia has spent this summer interning at Chute Gerdeman, a strategic…

Nickley and Snyder present “Affirmative Co-design” at DGDW design conference
Assistant Professor William Nickley and MFA candidate Camille Snyder presented their paper “Toward affirmative co-design: Accounting for intersectionality in LGBTQIA+ identity & lived…

MFA alumna Noor Danielle Murteza featured in Columbus Dispatch
Dublin Arts Council program "Fractals: Patterns in Nature" was recently featured in the Columbus Dispatch. This three-part program highlights the concept of fractals and helps people connect…

Münch brings worldly experience and ideas to new role as chair of the Department of Design
Fabienne Münch’s career can be defined by one word: redesign.
From a small design studio to an international home and office furnishing company to higher education, Münch has altered…

MFA Candidate Hsi-Yuan Chu and Assistant Professor Yvette Shen Presented at HCII 2022
Rising 3rd-year MFA Candidate Hsi-Yuan Chu and Assistant Professor Yvette Shen presented their paper titled “User Feedback Design in AI-driven Mood Tracker Mobile Apps” at this year’s HCII (Human-…

Congratulations to Graduate Program Coordinator Polly Graham on Her Retirement
Congratulations to Graduate Program Coordinator Polly Graham, who will retire on June 30, 2022 after many years of valued service to the Department of Design!
Polly has been an employee of…

VCD Alumni Work on AWE Auggie Awards Best Consumer App
Congratulations to Adam Evans (BSD 2013) and John Fontaine (BSD 2015) for their work at Streem on the Lowe's Companies, Inc.’s Measure Your Space, which won Best Consumer App at the 2022 Augmented…