Design Alumnus Named One of China’s Forty Designers in Forty Years of Chinese Reform and Opening
Xiangyang Xin, an alumnus from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design (MDes ’02, PhD ’07), was recently named one of China’s Forty Designers... more
Design Alumna Launches Website Dedicated to the Work of Myrna Rosen
Jessie Headrick, an alumna of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design (BDes ’18), recently launched a website dedicated to the work of Myrna... more
Remembering Lauren Chapman Ruiz
Last week, faculty and staff of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design were devastated to learn of the sudden passing of Alumna Lauren Chapman... more
Design Alumni Receive U.S. Patent for abiliLife
Liana Kong and Keith Joseph, two alumni from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design (ID ’15) were recently granted a U.S. Patent for abiliLife... morePages
News Briefs
Fred Bould's (ID '87) company, Bould Design, performed extremely well at the 2018 Red Dot Product Design Awards. Bould Design was been recognized with eight awards for designs including the Light L16 computational camera, Eero Home WiFi System, Rylo 360 camera, Roku Ultra, Roku Express+, and Roku Streaming Stick+ streaming devices, Hunter Douglas PowerView Hub Kit, and Poynt 5 payment terminal.
Kelly Caranchini Gross (ID 2002) recently completed her PhD in Art and Design Education with a focus on students with disabilities and is now serving as faculty chair of Graduate Studies of Art and Design Education at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Design alumni have been very generous in arranging for their companies to host alumni gatherings. We’re grateful for their generosity in hosting and providing comfortable spaces to mix and mingle, and letting us provide an update on the School of Design. Over the past year, we’ve held gatherings at:
Silicon Valley, Bould Design, March 2017:
Fred Bould & Sushma Patel (BFA ’87 & ’88), hosts
New York City, Work&Co, May 2017:
Steve Kuhn & Aliya Baptista (MDes ’97 & ‘11), hosts
Boston, Isobar, June 2017:
Christa Houlahan (MDes ’99), host
Seattle, Amazon, August 2017
Ko Nakatsu & Agata Adamowicz (BFA ’04 & ’05), hosts