There’s always something new.

Lisa K. Bambach (MDes2025) and her class at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

August 2024

Summer Abroad 2024: Monuments & Identity in Germany

Maya Kaneko (UW MDes ’24), Brett Halperin (UW HCDE), Claire Weizenegger (UW HCDE, MDes ’23) together on the last day of the conference.

July 2024

Maya Kaneko presents at the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2024

MDes 2024 projects presented in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

June 2024

MDes Show 2024

The new and improved design graduate studio

September 2023

New space for the graduate studio

Sneak peek images of the 2023 MDes thesis work

May 2023

MDes 2023 Thesis Presentations

Screenshot from the UnSchool website

May 2023

Introducing UnSchool

Min Jung Koo, Wyatt Olson, Maya Kaneko, Ann Mathew (in the computer), Bill Xiong, Kris Brauer

March 2023

Graduate Studio Highlight: Behavioral design

Claire Weizenegger happy to present her poster!

December 2022

Thesis Poster Show for MDes 2023

The NED elephant at the 2022 Seattle Design Fest.

August 2022

Summer appearances for Eason Yang's thesis NED

Thesis covers from the MDes 2022 cohort

June 2022

MDes class of 2022 present their thesis

View from the Henry Art Gallery with projects from Eason Yang, Stephanie Tang Waldrop and Andy Madrick. Photo credit: Jueqian Fang.

May 2022

MDes thesis show opens at the Henry Art Gallery

MDes thesis exhibited in the Henry Art Gallery exhibition. Works by Taylor Miles Hopkins and Vassilissa Semouchkina.

October 2021

Two MDes alum teaching design on the UW campus.

Logo of the Information+ 2021 conference

September 2021

Vassilissa Semouchkina and Karen Cheng present paper at Information+ conference.

Jeremy Barribeau, Prof. Sang-gyeun Ahn, and Prof. Ji-Eun Kim conducting focus group research with patients at Northwest Kidney Centers, Seattle, 2019.

August 2021

Congratulations to Jeremy Barribeau (MDes 2020) and the entire team at the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation!

Animated gif of the High Water Pants — Heidi Biggs’ MDes thesis project.

July 2021

Heidi Biggs and Jeremy Viny, are presenting at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference.

Chair created by Justin Thoreau Lund as the result of his MDes thesis on the topic of Generative Design.

June 2021

Justin Thoreau Lund (MDes 2020) is hired as an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.

Visual overview of MDes 2021 thesis projects

June 2021

The class of 2021 is presenting their thesis projects today on zoom!

Samer Fouad.

December 2020

Samer Fouad to teach at the Pacific Lutherian University in Tacoma, WA.

Welcome page to the website of the Symposium on Design Graduate Education.

April 2020

The Division of Design hosted A Symposium on Design Graduate Education.

Cover of Emma Laukitis Teal’s (MDes 2018) book “The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska: A Cookbook with 50 Recipes”.

April 2020

Emma Laukitis Teal and Claire Neaton publishes the book “The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska: A Cookbook with 50 Recipes.”