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Designers do — a message from Dr. Mary Anne Beecher
Ohio State Design Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Friends:
Singers sing. Writers write. Designers do. They do not sit idly by while others take on the world’s burdens. Now, as…

Tyler Hatton Announced IIDA Student of the Year Award Winner
The IIDA Student of the Year Award recognizes an IIDA Student Member who has significantly impacted their school’s interior design program through outstanding leadership,…

Second-Year Industrial Design Students Explore DIY PPE
Like so many instructors, Adjunct Professor Nate Ames (Director of the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence) found himself facing a challenge in March, 2020: quickly converting his…

Department of Design Scholarship Deadline Approaching - Apply Today!
The deadline for Academic Year 2020-2021 Department of Design Scholarships is May 1st at 11:59pm. All students within the Department of Design accepted into a major are encouraged to apply! If you…

Golden Bucks Place Top Three At Big Ten Design Challenge
The Big Ten Design Challenge is a challenge open to students of all disciplines across the Big Ten school campuses. The challenge is designed to allow students to put their education into practice…

DESIS Lab Wins #MillionsofChangemakers Award
Ashoka is an organization that advocates for the expansion of changemaker education; an educational approach that advances the competencies of empathy, collaboration, creative problem-solving, and…

MFA Candidate Noor D. Murteza Wins 2020 Hayes Research Forum
The Edward F. Hayes graduate research forum gives graduate students from a variety of research backgrounds the opportunity to present their work to a qualified panel of judges. There are 16…

#OSUDesignMadness
COVID-19 may have canceled the annual NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, but we here at Ohio State Design are not going to let that spoil our bracket based fun.
Several weeks back, a…

A message from the chair regarding COVID-19
The Department of Design urges all members of its community—our students, faculty and staff—to be safe during this challenging time. Although we have now dispersed to our respective homes…