One gown, 250 hours. Beneath the neoclassical arches of Columbia University’s Low Library, first-year Parsons fashion design student Enkhjin Batbold shined in the spotlight at Silk: First Light.…
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The price of creativity: Navigating financial barriers in design education
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
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…
CYNOSURE: How a high school project evolved into the center of attention
Cynosure, “the person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration,” is the title Parsons School of Design third-year Nicole Galinson adopted for her high school…
Lack of diversity in Communication Design faculty is affecting students’ educational experiences
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…
Opinion: Design students need to care about organized labor
It’s no secret that labor solidarity is in the air. From the Trader Joe’s union initiatives on the Lower East Side to the protests on streets of Paris,…