Future100: Students Make Leaps in Industrial Design
Investigating everything from new social norms to biophilia, industrial and product design students make their mark at the object scale.
Student Work
Future100: A New Generation of Designers Is Rethinking Elder Care Environments
Students envision senior living solutions that better support autonomy, physical wellbeing and mental health.
Future100: The Next Wave of Urban Planners Will Prioritize Social Capital
Four students try their hands at district planning and manage to imbue public spaces with a sense of democracy, productivity, and history.
Future100: Interior Design Students Imagine the New Wave of Hospitality
From jewelry displays to super-yachts, these six Future100 students are prioritizing the guest experience.
Pratt Students Convert Everyday Waste into Viable Products and Materials
The new Material Lab Prize recognizes emerging talents who create designs and composites out of reclaimed waste.
A Student Project Sheds Light on Local Materials
Working with materials indigenous to Mexico's many biomes, students at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, devised a set of solar lamps.
Nine of Taliesin West's Most Iconic Student Shelters
The student-designed desert shelters at Taliesin West, which began in 1938 with John Lautner's lean-to and continue today, provide a window into architecture's evolving relationship with the natural environment.
The Challenge of a Chair: Students Compete to Create One-of-a-Kind Chair
For the past 13 years, Wilsonart has been hosting student chair design competition to challenge students to create a unique design.
Can Fashion Help Refugees? This Parsons Student's Ingenious Line Shows How
“Design for Difference” merges style with utility in multi-functional garments that do more than clothe, but protect, shelter, and carry items.
Design Students Take Their Final Projects to ICFF
Design students at RIT reimagine the modern office.
The Student Work Shines at Dutch Design Week 2015
The refugee crisis, globalization's drawbacks, and novel health-care delivery systems were all themes at Dutch Design Week 2015.
The "Essay": A Chair For Students, By a Student
A furniture company collaborates with design students at Purdue University for its latest chair collection.
GM Partners With Students to Design Future of Car Travel
The automotive makers sponsored a project for the College for Creative Studies in which MFA majors were tasked with creating a branded experience for Chevrolet.
Students Create Energy-Producing House for European Solar Decathlon
Designers from RISD, Brown, and the University of Applied Science Erfurt developed a prototypical home that actually generates 50% more energy than it uses.
The Human Centered Design Program Bears Fruit in Menominee
Students from Northern Michigan University collaborated with Lloyd Flanders furniture makers to prototype human centered design.
Design Students Take on Universal Design
Research at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is transforming the practice—and the very definition—of universal design.
This Silk Chair Is More Silk Than Chair
Don't be deceived: you can actually sit in this chair.
Design Students Successfully "Grow" Their Thesis Project
Two Philadelphia University students successfully grow a lamp and a chair from mushrooms.
New Book Chronicles the Life of a Former Design Student
A new book looks at the creative evolution of designers from their days as students to their present careers
Can Design Help Solve Our "Wicked" Problem of Waste?
We have a wicked problem. As a society we waste an awful lot of materials. Consider, for instance, the sheer volume of packaging that hits the recycling bin after we open cheap consumer electronics and then replace them in rapid…
