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MDes Students Win the Linda Tischler Award by Fast Company

Congrats to six of our incoming MDes students (Abhi Ghavalkar, Franklyn Bucknor, Kailin Li, Roland Saekow, Titus Ebbecke, and Xiaobai Ji) for being awarded the Linda Tischler award at the Innovation by Design ceremony hosted by Fast Company!

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People

Tomas Garcia

Tomas Garcia is a cross-disciplinary designer and technologist who translates speculative ideas into practical and resonant experiences. As a Creative Technologist at the Samsung Design Innovation Center, he operates at the convergence of research,

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People

Hongxuan (Mia) Wu

Bio

I’m Hongxuan Wu (Mia), my pronouns are she/her/hers.
I’m an interdisciplinary designer with a diverse background spanning Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Sustainable Design. Graduated from Pratt Institute.

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Awards News SFDesignWeek Student Work

Big Wins for our MDes2024 Cohort at San Francisco Design Week!

We’ve got exciting news from our MDes2024 students!

Shameemah Fuseini-Codjoe, María-Teresa Carmier, Divya Srinivasan, and Abigail Chen have just won the Student Recipient award at San Francisco Design Week for their project Rebrew!

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Events

Design@Large-palooza: Summer D@L Tips and Tricks from MDes2023

Design@Large-palooza is a two weeks-long extravaganza of events and engagements showcasing the D@L experiences of the MDes2023 cohort. Students will provide the newest MDes cohort with actionable tips and tricks,

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People

Vidit Bhargava

Bio

Hi! I am Vidit (pronounced With-it(h)). Born and Raised in Delhi, I have been always been passionate about technology and seek avenues to learn more about it.

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News

MDes students win Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas

Congratulations to MDes students Akash Mahajan, Debbie Yuen, Eleanor Mayes, Roland Saekow, and Lula Duloup for winning the Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas awards in the Student category with their project EIDOS.

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Spring Mentors

Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, Design Frameworks and Capstone Studio have a great line-up of guests with backgrounds ranging from critical theory to robotic fabrication to XR technologies to strategic foresight….

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Meet Prana, a ventilator startup

Prana is a passive, multi-patient attachment for medical ventilators that allows up to four patients to share a single continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine safely. Ventilators are a critical medical device used to treat numerous respiratory diseases from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),

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MDes Student Eleanor Mayes (FA22) receives the Arcus Social Justice Corp Fellowship

Eleanor Mayes (MDes FA22) has just been awarded an Arcus Social Justice Corp (ASJC) Fellowship!

The ASJC is a new fellowship program in the College of Environmental Design that offers significant debt-relief to select graduate students who intend to do social justice work after graduation.

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