The School of Design is proud to announce the student projects that were featured at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards. Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards, now in its 12th year, celebrates "the richness of the design profession as well as the insight and perseverance of its practitioners." The Core77 Design Awards offers both students and professionals the opportunity to promote their best work on a global scale across 22 distinct design disciplines.

Michele Hratko, a rising sophomore at the School of Design (BDes ’27), was recently tasked with the design and branding for the CMU Dancer’s Symposium’s Spring Showcase – Reverie. Dancers' Symposium (DS), CMU’s largest student-run dance organization, aims to provide an open and supportive environment to further the exposure of dance, music, student choreography, and student performance.

Congratulations to our outstanding students who made the College of Fine Arts Dean’s List for Spring 2024. The criteria for the dean's list is the top one-third of QPAs in each school within CFA.

In May of 2024, Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design is proud to announce our seven new PhD’s in Transition Design. This cohort, the largest number of PhD graduates in a single year for the School of Design, represents a fascinating array of thought, work, and research in the field of Transition Design.

Each year, the School of Design holds our Design Awards program during Design Week of the spring semester. This event celebrates the academic talents of our students and their contributions to the school.

Two teams of graduate design students from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design recently won 2024 Muse Design awards for their projects, Dish Dash and Dimono.

Jiyeon Chun, a senior specializing in Product Design at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, recently won the 2024 IDSA Merit Awards. Each year, IDSA student chapters across the US nominate one undergraduate senior who exemplifies excellence within the industrial design field. Representing Carnegie Mellon, Jiyeon will compete at the IDSA district level for national recognition. Seniors Catherine Liu, John Henley and Georgia Miller were also recognized for their product design work.

Last October, Raelynn O’Leary and Ashley Deal attended the EPIC Design Conference to present a case study outlining the design research process they followed to inform an app to support new moms in the postpartum period. O’Leary and Deal are Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design and founding partners of Dezudio.

On Monday, January 8th, Peregrine Mission One, the first privately funded lunar lander by Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technologies, achieved lift off at 2:18am from Cape Canaveral carried by ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. On board the lunar lander were an assortment of payloads. The MoonArk, a cultural marker that combined the arts, humanities, sciences and technologies to help tell the story of humankind, was one of the most precious and important payloads.

A team of School of Design seniors recently launched Lemon, a student-run publication that aims to showcase student work ranging from fine arts, performance, music, design, architecture and literature. As the team gears up to release its second issue this spring, we caught up with them to learn more about the inspiration behind Lemon and what we can expect from the magazine in the future.