Alumni Awards News Student Work MDes Students and Alumni Win Design Awards at Core77 and SF Design Week Competitions Susanne Pierce Maddux’s Berkeley MDes project “Aer” has been recognized as an award winner in the 2023 CORE 77 Design Awards’ sustainability category. Aer is a material-driven design concept for a novel consumer home air filter that uses compostable bioplastic materials and an innovative design to create an affordable, …
News UC Berkeley is ranked No. 1 for generating startup founders, companies, and empowering female entrepreneurs! According to the 2024 PitchBook rankings, Berkeley continues to crush it in the startup world, with alumni launching some of the most exciting companies across industries and current students working to make their ideas a reality.🚀 A key driver behind this success is SkyDeck, …
Alumni MDes2024 News Student Cohort Congratulations to the MDes2024 Cohort! This past December, we were able to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of the MDes2024 Cohort! This celebration honored the creative resilience, innovation, and hard work of our graduates. Representing our student body were Bob Tianqi Wei and Gia Kirk, …
People Wonjoon Oh Wonjoon is a Mechanical Design Engineer, Creative Technologist, and Prototyping Expert who leverages extensive experience on emerging technologies to create high fidelity prototypes. He’s experienced in interactive media art, automobile, …
People Tomas Garcia Tomas Garcia is a designer dedicated to exploring the intersection of emerging technology and physical craft, and its potential to enhance the human experience. He is now a creative technologist at Samsung Design Innovation Center. …
People Justin Trainor Justin is a Product Designer at Sigma Computing, helping organizations deliver self service analytics to their employees. He enjoys working at the intersection of design and strategy, where he is able to influence every aspect of a product’s lifecycle. …
People Jan-Simon Veicht Jan is building the Design Strategy team at NewDealDesign, a full-stack design agency focused on building impactful brands, systems, products, and experiences for both commercial and consumer markets. He works at the intersection of design, …
People Georgios Grigoriadis Georgios Grigoriadis is a Designer and an Architect (of things), working with emerging technologies, future making and fabrication. He uses digital, physical tools and machines to design and build spaces, …
People Effie Jia Effie creates objects and experiences that connect humans, machines, and the environment. She is a designer on the Adobe MINT (Machine Intelligence and New Technologies) team and was previously at Facet.ai, …
People Benal Johnson Benal is a multidisciplinary designer with experience across industrial design, design strategy, UX/UI, tangible user interfaces, and speculative design. This combination of skills provides Benal the opportunity to design and communicate across disciplines in all types of projects and clients. …