Age diversity makes NYSID’s BFA program stronger. Monica Seroiczkowski ’20 and Cielo Cortes ’21, two BFA students at different stages of life, discuss their journeys to NYSID, and what they’ve found at the College.
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On the brink of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City, we sat down with alumni at the architecture and interior design firm Stonehill Taylor to discuss their careers and recent projects. During the lockdown, we spoke with the firm’s interiors principal, Sara Duffy, about how the company is adapting and looking toward the future of hospitality design in this uncertain time.
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Erika Reuter ’06 (BFA) / ’13 (MFA-2) never expected to be a Registered Architect or a project manager. Now she’s both. Her drive and openness to new challenges have moved her interior design career forward.
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Residential designers and NYSID faculty members Lawrence Levy ’05 (BFA), principal of Lawrence Allan Inc.; Stefan Steil ’08 (BFA) / ’10 (MFA-2), principal of Steilish Interiors and Architecture; and Alejandra Munizaga ’11 (BFA), principal of Natura Interiors share insights into their careers and what drives them to design homes.
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NYSID students are landing life-changing internships at prestigious firms. This is particularly true of second-year MFA-1 students, who have mature portfolios to present during the interview process. Five MFA-1 students talk about what they learned during their summers at work, how they got their internships, and NYSID’s support of learning through experience.
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When Victoria Bartholomew and Bailey McGrath met as assigned roommates for NYSID’s summer Pre-college program, they had no idea that five years later, they’d share an apartment and be just months away from earning their BFA degrees in Interior Design.
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NYSID’s curricula and offerings are evolving to push the standards of interior design education further.
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NYSID’s MFA-1 has changed significantly since its inception in 2009, but the resolve of its career-changing students has remained a constant. Shannon Andrews ’11 of HLW, Andrew Kaplan ’14, Topaz Wong ’16 and Carrie Anne Li ’16, all of Gensler; Nick Domitrovich ’12 of NICOLEHOLLIS; and Brett Helsham ’12 of Brett Helsham Designs discuss the education behind their exciting careers.
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Ever dream of being a studio director at a major firm? Becky Button ’01 (BFA) leads a studio for Gensler, and provides us with some insights into her job at a company that employs more than 27 NYSID alumni around the globe.
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In the 13 years since he graduated from NYSID, Alberto Villalobos ’06 (AAS) has made a name for himself in high-end residential design. As this issue’s visual thinker, he shares the ideas and sourcing behind one striking room design.
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NYSID students’ approaches to Instagram are as diverse as their design sensibilities, demonstrating there’s more than one right way to market yourself as an interior designer.
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Fifty percent of NYSID’s BFA studios are devoted to residential design. Gideon Mendelson ’07 (AAS), founder of Mendelson Group, and Brooke Lichtenstein ’10 (BFA) and Yiannos Vrousgos ’10 (BFA), co-principals of Input Creative Studio, talk about the foundation in residential design that got them where they are today.
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NYSID’s students have won many awards, its faculty are recognized trailblazers and its curricula and offerings are continuously evolving and pushing the standards of interior design education ever higher.
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When you walk into the third-floor common area of WeWork’s new 135 West 41st Street facility, designed by alumnus Matthew Giampietro ’14 (MFA-1), you’ll find what he calls “four levels of seating.”
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Stefan Steil ’08 (BFA) and ’10 (MFA-2), faculty member and principal of Steilish Interiors & Architecture (steilish.com), was one of the designers selected to reimagine a room for the 2018 Kips Bay Decorator Show House on New York’s Upper East Side last April.
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“Interior Design is equal parts art and science,” writes Dr. Ellen Fisher, NYSID’s Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, in the introduction to her book, New York School of Interior Design: HOME: The Foundations of Enduring Spaces. “It is problem solving with an added value: the designer’s unique creative twist and ability to refine solutions with an eye for beauty and empathy.”
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