Paula Rhodes Award: Students Jueun Jeon and Minahil Kasher were awarded the Paula Rhodes Award, which recognizes students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
Fan Fang, Brenda Son, Yuri Kim, Yixin Chen (Class of 2024) – UX Design New Talent Award for “Kudo, the cutest way to fight climate change;” 2024.
Seungmi Lee and Hannah Kim (Class of 2025), Tzuyi Lee (Class of 2024) – Designpreneur Hackathon for the NYU, SVA and Parsons communities, students weremembers of three winning teams for overall design, audience choice, and design & desirability; Fall 2023.
Maryam Monalisa Ghavari, Faculty | Shadow Data (Special Topics I) – Anonymous Was a Woman & NYFA Environmental Arts Grants, “Oil Research Group;” Fall 2023.
Pinar Guvenc, Faculty | Inclusive Design I and II – Honorable Mention by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) for New Sustainability Center and Earthquake Preparedness Architecture “Turkey’s First Floating Building;” Fall 2023.
Karen Ingram, Faculty | Responsible Design and Thesis Presentation – New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Queens Arts Fund Recipient for “Biogenetic Blooms: Collaborations with Genetically Modified Yeast;” 2024. – Rep Magazine, “Gene Editing Issue” – named Lead Issue Learning Designer; April 2024.
Kristine Mudd, Faculty | Research Methods and Thesis Advisor – Webby Awards, Responsible AI Nominee for “Dewey for ParentData;” 2024.
2023
Paula Rhodes Award: Students April Chien and Syed Osama Hussein were awarded the Paula Rhodes Award, which recognizes students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
2022
Paula Rhodes Award: Student Brenda Hawley was awarded the Paula Rhodes Award, which recognizes students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
2021
Paula Rhodes Award: Students Poonam Patel and Bowen Shen won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
Annual Designpreneurs Hackathon:Junbae Choi and his team member Martins Udotai of NYU took first prize in “Investment Ready” with their product SitEat.
2020
Paula Rhodes Award: Students Leanne Carroll and Ravi Seethapathy won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
Paula Rhodes Award: Students Kinjal Shah and Nour Malaeb won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
IxDA Student Design Challenge: Student Katarina Yee and her team won the IxDA Student Design Challenge with their project keyHue, a project focused on removing barriers to quality education for students with dyscalculia.
NYC Media Lab Verizon Challenge: Students Elushika Weerakoon, Paola Rangel, and Uijun Park‘s Kiwi wins the Verizon Challenge in the Augmented and Mixed Reality category. Kiwi is a mobile application scanner for physical textbooks that enhances the reading experience for high school students.
Runner Up Service Design Award at Core77 Design Awards: Alum Kohzy Koh, along with Products of Design students Gahnee Kang, and Doug Fertig, won the Runner Up for Sift, their platform that helps canners quickly figure out which containers can be returned for money in their state, while establishing a stronger connection between recycling center and canner.
Paula Rhodes Award: Students David Al-Ibrahim and Ruth Tupe won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
2016
Fast Co.Design’s Most Innovative Student Design of 2016: Students David Al-Ibrahim, Kohzy Koh, and Elushika Weerakoon‘s Readi is amongst a collection of student projects Fast Co.Design have called the most innovative student projects of the year.
Webby Awards:Alumni Barbara deWilde wins a Webby Award for “Cooking with the New York Times” in the Mobile Sites & Apps – Food & Drink category. Faculty Paul Ford was nominated for the Best Individual Editorial Experience and Best Writing (Editorial) categories for his essay “What is Code?“, while alumni Gene Lu‘s “Run Wars” was nominated in the Websites – Weird category, and alumni Tony Chu‘s “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” was nominated in the Websites – Science category.
Core 77 Design Awards: Student Nic Barajas, along with Products of Design’s Qi Ziyun and Roya Ramezani, wins Student Runner Up at the Core 77 Design Awards with Yawnie, a yawning smart product that helps people develop good sleeping habits.
KPCB Design Fellowship: Student Kohzy Koh is a KPCB Fellow at Uber for 2016, which offers top U.S. college and graduate students a chance to work inside innovative Silicon Valley startups.
Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers: Chair Liz Danzico co-edits a book, LEAP Dialogues, that wins the 50 Books | 50 Covers awards in both categories.
Paula Rhodes Award: Students Rachel Hsiung and Marcelo Mejia Cobo won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
2015
NYDesigns Fellowship: Alumni Nga Nguyen is a 2015 NYDesigns Fellow, a program that supports entrepreneurs as they explore the intersection between design and technology.
2015 Yelp School of Visual Arts MFA Interaction Design Scholarship. Josh Sucher won this award, an award intended to recognize and reward a student in the field of interaction and product design as it relates to community building, personal storytelling, local business evangelism, or entrepreneurship. Learn more here.
Paula Rhodes Award: Students Amy Wu and Luke Stern won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
2014 Yelp School of Visual Arts MFA Interaction Design Scholarship. Luke Stern won this award, an award intended to recognize and reward a student in the field of interaction and product design as it relates to community building, personal storytelling, local business evangelism, or entrepreneurship.
Paula Rhodes Award: Student Tyler Davidson won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
2013
National Design Award: Local Projects founder and faculty emeritus Jake Barton accepts the 2013 National Design Award. See the acceptance speech.
2013 Interaction Award: Faculty Jodi Leo was on the team that received the Interaction Award for “People’s Choice” for her project, UX for Good: New Orleans. See the winning entries.
KPCB Design Fellow: Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers selected student Willa Tracosas as one of the fellows to launch their new program for design students, which offers top U.S. college and graduate students a chance to work inside innovative Silicon Valley startups. See the winning projects.
Paula Rhodes Award: Student Tony Chu won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
Paula Rhodes Award: Student David Bellona won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception.
Paula Rhodes Award: Students Kathryn Koch and Jeffrey Kirsch won the Paula Rhodes Award which awards students in each SVA department who demonstrate quality and originality in their thesis conception
