Design News

Picture the future. What do you see? Now think of the items in your home. What could they turn into? This is the starting point for Futures Bazaar, a wildly fun and creative idea generation workshop.

“It is not often that a building behind your home burns down, and you have the means to purchase the land. But that is what happened to me,” said Kristin Hughes, a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design. This is how Hughes began her work at Octopus Garden, a landmark in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Uriel Eisen is an entrepreneur and designer with a focus on manufacturability. Uriel obtained BDes from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design in 2015, and is currently the founder of Austere Manufacturing, a company that specializes in high performance buckles.

Daniel Rosenberg Muñoz, an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, was recently named a 2022-2023 Wimmer Faculty Fellow by CMU’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation.

Master’s Students from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, Weijie Wang (MDes ‘23), Devika Pillai (MPS ‘22), Matt Muenzer (MPS ‘22), and Youngryun Cho (MDes ‘23), won the Gold Award at the HCII 2022 Conference for their team project, PIA. Only one project from the conference receives a Gold Award. Days after this announcement, their work also received the Notable Interaction Award from Core 77.

For 43 years, Charlee Brodsky has been a fixture in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design. As a professor of photography, Charlee has guided countless students through the art of capturing light and color, the craft of developing a photographic narrative, and the skills needed to turn a camera into a powerful communicative tool. This year Charlee is retiring from the School of Design, and to say that she will be missed is an understatement.

Elizabeth McDonough, an alumna of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design (MA ‘22), spent a summer week at an intensive creative workshop off the beaten path in the Mani region of Greece, near Kalamata.

Laury A. Egan, an alumna of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design (BFA ’72), has been enjoying an incredible career as an author, with her latest book, Once, Upon an Island, arriving on shelves in September.

Carnegie Mellon Racing, a student-run electric racing team that designs and builds an entire open-wheel electric racecar every year, recently won multiple awards over this summer. The team’s awards include taking first place in the electric category at the Formula Hybrid competition and placing 5th overall, as well as second in both design and efficiency, and took home the Cummins Innovation Award from Formula SAE Michigan.

A copy of the MoonArk, a cultural payload headed to the moon in late 2022, has just been added to the permanent art collection of the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum.