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5 Transformative Internships

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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Driven by Design

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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An Eye for Details

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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Portfolio: Fall 2019

The Office of Academic Affairs awarded the students whose thesis projects are featured here the Chairman’s Award for their overall performance at NYSID and, in one case, the Ana Blanc Verna Award for Excellence in Interior Design, an award given to a graduating BFA student who demonstrated unique creative vision.

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Portfolio: Fall 2018

The Office of Academic Affairs awarded the students whose thesis projects are featured here the Chairman’s Award for their overall performance at NYSID and, in one case, the Ana Blanc Verna Award for Excellence in Interior Design, an award given to a graduating BFA student who demonstrated unique creative vision.

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New and Notable: Fall 2018

“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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