Design Week Schedule - Fall 2024

It's Design Week for Fall 2024!  Design Week is when we celebrate an entire semester's worth of our students' work, with a full week of shows, presentations, displays, and open studios.  Please join us and see what the future of design looks like!

Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public.
MMCH = Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall

Wednesday 12/4/24

1:30 - 2:30pm - Design for Aging
MMCH 121
Fifteen students, undergrads and grads from Design, Heinz, Art, Architecture, and CS, will be on hand to discuss their projects and insights from the semester. Stop by any time in the hour. We hope to see you there!

Thursday 12/5/24

8:30am - 10:30am - How Things Are Made
MMCH 212

2:00pm - 3:50pm - UX Research & Design
MMCH 203

Friday 12/6/24

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Cultures
MMCH 203

Monday 12/9/24

10:00am - 11:30am - First Year Studio - Eco-Lending Libraries
MMCH B - Level
Join us for a special event of our Eco-Lending Libraries Project! This collaborative effort between First Year Design students and the Children's School celebrates creativity, play, and environmental stewardship. Explore immersive worlds like the "Honey Bee Butt Boogie" & "Pet Vet for My Sick Long-Eared Owl," all designed to inspire eco-kindness and imaginative play. Enjoy a morning of discovery and fun!

10:00am - 11:00am - Type Design
MMCH 203
Join us for a final showcase of work from Type Design: Variable. Fonts of all formats will be on display and ready for visitors to interact with and experience, from analog 'type-high' letterpress experiments to variable color fonts displayed in custom-coded environments. Please swing by and talk with the students about their projects from 10-11am!

1:00pm - 3:00pm - MDes/MPS Studio 1: Designing for Interactions (Presentations)
MMCH 215
Join our 1st-year MDes and MPS students as they present multi-sensory interactions designed for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

3:00pm - 5:00pm - MDes/MPS Studio 1: Designing for Interactions (Demos)
MMCH 127
Interact with demonstration multi-sensory interactions from the 1st-year MDes and MPS students, designed for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

3:00pm - 5:00pm - Calligraphy / Letterpress
MMCH 203

Tuesday 12/10/24

10:30am - 12:00pm - Juniors Studio Showcase
MMCH 210, 211, 212

10:30am - 11:20am - Futuring Craft
MMCH 107

1:30pm - 3:00pm - Senior Show
MMCH 112 - 115
Communications seniors exhibit two projects:  interactions for communicating complex data; and digital product design projects from branding to design systems to 0-1 product prototyping.
Products seniors are exhibiting one project, challenging the throwaway society through design that lasts.
Environments seniors will be exhibiting brand research, an experiential pop-up concept, and a project extension that reflects their personal interests as designers.

Wednesday 12/11/24

11:00am - 12:50pm - MA Studio
MMCH 121
Please join us as we pack the room with everything we’ve done this semester. We’ll have videos starting at 11:10am and group presentations will be right after that. Two other projects will be displayed throughout.

Thursday 12/12/24

9:00am - 10:00am - Communication Studio 1: Form and Context
MMCH 213
Join us for a showcase of work from students in both C-mini sections. Type hierarchy posters and editorial spreads will be on display. A reel of typographic videos—designed to inform and delight—will play at 9:10am.

10:00am - 11:00am - Environments Studio 1
MMCH 121
Come see the work sophomores did exploring spatial narratives and digitally mediated experiences with 3D interactions for extended reality (XR) and interactive museum exhibits.

10:00am - 11:00am - Environments Lab 1
MMCH 121

11:00am - 12:00pm - Products Studio 1
MMCH 214

12:00pm - 1:30pm - First Year Studio
MMCH A6

1:15pm - 2:45pm - MDes/MPS Communication Design Theory and  Practice
MMCH 215
Five new students will have their work available to review in a science fair format every 30 minutes.

1:30pm - 2:30pm - Furniture
MMCH 107

2:00pm - 4:00pm - The Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion Course Exhibition

• Patterns in Nature, MMCH 121
• Bugs and Bioinspiration, MMCH 123
• Creative Concepting, MMCH 124

Friday 12/13/24

11:00am - 1:30pm - MDes II In-Progress Thesis Presentations
MMCH 215, 203, & 107