The price of creativity: Navigating financial barriers in design education

How can we navigate financial barriers while still exploring ideas that matter the most? Illustration by Lydia Chiu

The cost of creativity isn’t measured only in the hours spent designing—it’s tallied in receipts. For many students at Parsons School of Design, balancing financial constraints with creative…

Parsons professors speak with Blue Lagoon head designers and architects in New York’s ‘Taste of Iceland’ event series

Professor talking at symposium about designing in areas of volcanic activity. Photo by Diego Zorzo

Last Thursday, an eager audience climbed the stairs to the second floor of the Scandinavia House, located in Volvo Hall on 58 Park Ave., to listen to a…

Lack of diversity in Communication Design faculty is affecting students’ educational experiences

Students work at a desk in the Design Lab at the 2 West 13th St Parsons building. Photo by Remy Grimm.

In preparation for their thesis projects, Senior Communication Design (CD) students at Parsons School of Design spend six-hour-long classes poring over resources, collecting images, making books, and designing…

Best fashion school, worst merchandise?

Located both at https://www.thenewstore.nyc/ and on the first floor of the University Center at 63 Fifth Ave., The New Store sells a selection of university merchandise. New School Free Press reporter Marta Dumancic believes that, for having such a prominent fashion school, the New School lacks well-designed merch. Photo by Marta Dumancic

What The New School’s apparel lacks, and what can we do to make it better. As you walk around Washington Square Park, or down Fifth Avenue or 12th…