Design Week Schedule - Spring 2025

It's Design Week for Spring 2025!  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

Friday 04/25/25

5:00 - 8:00pm - In the Making: School of Design Class of 2025 Senior Show
Rockwell Park, 7514 Thomas Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15208, USA
In the Making is the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design Class of 2025’s senior show. It is a cumulation of four years of work across three disciplines in design from 38 designers represented through over 250 projects.
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Tuesday 04/29/25

11:00am - 1:30pm - Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion Course Exhibit
MMCH 121
An exhibition of work from Design Fusion courses: Patterns in Nature; Creative Concepting; Comics, Cybernetics and Systems of Change; and Designing for Presence

1:30 - 2:30pm - Junior Communications
MMCH 213
An open house showcasing spring semester projects, including identity systems for cultural sites and multi-modal campaigns designed to persuade, provoke, and inspire action.

2:00 - 3:30pm - Junior Products
MMCH212

3:00 - 4:30pm - Junior Environments
MMCH A11
An exhibition of interactive concepts and prototypes from the spring semester.

Wednesday 04/30/25

11:00am - 2:00pm - The School of Design Student Awards Ceremony
MMCH 103, Breed Hall
Join us as we celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of our students this year.

Thursday 05/01/25

10:00 - 11:00am - Communications Studio II
MMCH 210/211
Posters, booklets, prototypes, videos and even some websites! Oh my! Videos will start at 10:15am.

10:00 - 11:30am - Products Studio II
MMCH 107

11:00am - 12:30pm - Environments Studio II: Designing Environments for Interaction
MMCH 127
Join us for adventures in experiential storytelling and delightful interactions. Project displays and interactive demos will rotate over the 1.5hrs.

1:00 - 3:00pm - First Year Studio
MMCH A6
Come congratulate the first years on all they accomplished this semester and see the exhibit they designed to showcase their work.

3:00 - 4:00pm - Prototyping for Interaction Design
MMCH 121
Join the MA cohort for a showcase of projects from the semester, including digital mobile prototypes, laser cut light prototypes, and independent iterative prototypes.

5:00 - 6:00pm - Design for Digital Systems
MMCH 215
Join design and non-design juniors, seniors, grads as they showcase their final project design concepts and functional prototypes.

Friday 05/02/25

10:30am - 2:30pm - MDes Final Presentations
MMCH 215/216

2:00 - 4:00pm - Designing With CARE: Co-creating Solutions for Complex Care Coordination in Oncology
Magee Women's Hospital, Conference Rm. 2131