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.
Student Work
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…
Stand-out Students: 7 Graduate Projects That Point the Way Future
We picked seven absolutely stellar graduating projects from design schools around the world for the round-up in our July/August issue, but we found many more that were equally worthy of our attention. Graduate students in industrial design, architecture, and communication…
Best in Class: Top Student Designs That Are Ready for the Real World
Graduating design students cross disciplines to produce surprisingly mature solutions.
Q&A: Jerry Helling on the "Real" Issues Young Designers Face
For the better part of a decade, Jerry Helling has been a tireless supporter of young designers. Some of those efforts, I suspect, were born of frustration. In his role as president and creative director at Bernhardt Design, he’s experienced…
