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Illuminating a Demand

The New York School of Interior Design’s one-year, post-professional Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design (MPSL) has a 100 percent employment rate for graduates within 6 months of the program’s completion, and has for years…. MPSL Program Director Shaun Fillion, LC, CLCP, Educator IALD, as well as alumni Estefania Diaz ’15 (MPSL) / ’16 (MPSS), Lighting Designer at Ventresca Lighting Designers; Iliana Filotheidi ’19 (MPSL), Senior Lighting Designer at HLB Lighting Design; and Diogo Coelho ’18 (MPSL), Lighting Product Manager at Amerlux, share their insights.

summer 2023, alumni, lighting designBoyd DelanceyAugust 9, 2023alumni, Atelier

Visual Thinker: Robert Kaner

NYSID alum Robert Kaner ’02 (AAS) designed this interior for a couple who had multiple residences and would be spending only part of their time in New York.

summer 2023Boyd DelanceyAugust 9, 2023Visual Thinker, alumni

Why Are NYSID Students Winning So Many Awards?

2022-23 has been a banner academic year for NYSID students in regard to winning industry-wide competitions.

alumni, student projects, summer 2023, studentsBoyd DelanceyAugust 9, 2023alumni, Atelier, student work, students

Stay in Step with NYSID’s Alumni Council

NYSID’s Alumni Council is led by two dynamic designers: President Marie Aiello ’04 (AAS) and Vice-President Krista Gurevich ’16 (MFA1). When alumna Leslie Robinson ’21 (MFA1) caught up with the pair, they were excited to discuss the new Alumni Council Scholarship, which was first awarded at Gala 2023.

alumni, summer 2023Boyd DelanceyAugust 9, 2023alumni, Atelier

Visual Thinker: Guta Louro

For this project in Jarinu, a rural municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, NYSID alumna Guta Louro ’19 (MFA2) was tasked with breathing new life into two houses that had been neglected for decades.

Fall 2022Boyd DelanceyDecember 5, 2022Visual Thinker, alumni

Creating Spaces of Love and Refuge

Alumna Gail Davis ’11 (AAS), the sole principal of Gail Davis Designs, begins her design discovery with understanding her clients’ lives and psyches intimately. She places an emphasis on designing for African Americans.

Fall 2022Boyd DelanceyDecember 5, 2022alumni, Residential Design

Where Residential Design Can Take You

NYSID Alumna Kiki Dennis ’00 (AAS) built her own successful residential interior design firm. Then, she became a partner and residential interiors co-lead at the architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners. An interior designer who leads at an architecture firm, she thrives in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment.

Fall 2022Boyd DelanceyDecember 5, 2022alumni, Residential Design

How a Small Firm Laid the Groundwork for a Multibillion-Dollar Hotel

Alumna Marie Aiello ’04 (AAS), owner and principal of Marie Aiello Design Studio and president of NYSID’s Alumni Council, never expected her first hotel project to be a 470-foot-tall, 669-room superstructure in Times Square called TSX Broadway. This is a story of the power of design as a strategic force in real estate development and the potential for a little firm to make a big mark.

Fall 2022Boyd DelanceyDecember 5, 2022alumni

Commencement 2022

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the New York School of Interior Design honored the Classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 with a traditional Commencement ceremony at 92NY’s Kaufmann Concert Hall.

Fall 2022Boyd DelanceyDecember 5, 2022alumni

Visual Thinker: Laura Hodges

NYSID alumna Laura Hodges ‘09 designed this beautiful home for a couple downsizing from a 6,000-SF suburban home to 2,000-SF in the city of Baltimore.

spring 2022Boyd DelanceyJune 16, 2022Visual Thinker, alumni

Designing for Healthy Outcomes: An Innovator’s Insights into Healthcare Design

Suzy Genzler ’12 (BFA), program director of NYSID’s Master of Professional Studies in Healthcare Design, talks with Maureen Carley-Vallejo ’95 (BFA), principal and senior healthcare interiors leader at Perkins Eastman.

spring 2022Boyd DelanceyJune 16, 2022alumni, MPSH, healthcare interior design

There’s More Than One Path in Healthcare Design

NYSID alumna Christina Peters ’09 (BFA) is a senior associate at Perkins Eastman with expertise in design for aging and healthcare design. She sometimes works with principal Maureen Carley-Vallejo on the design of hospitals, but her deepest level of experience is in the planning and design of senior living communities.

spring 2022Boyd DelanceyJune 16, 2022BFA, alumni, healthcare interior design

Design is a Global Language

International Alumni Who Have Built Exciting Careers in the US. NYSID alumni Therese Virserius ’03 (AAS), Jennifer Graham ’85 (BFA), Ruoxi Cui ’13 (MFA1), IIya Pulyaev ’17 (MFA2), and Myoung Joo Chun ’02 (MFA2) on what brought them to the US to study and what kept them here.

Fall 2021Guest UserSeptember 26, 2021alumni, career changer, careers, healthcare interior design, BFA, MPSH, IIDA

A Mission Behind Every Design

Social Impact Design in Rwanda; Alumna Christelle Muhimpundu’s work for MASS Design Group

Fall 2021Guest UserSeptember 25, 2021careers, career changer, alumni

Design That Saves Lives

COVID-19 has made it clear that interior design is, at its core, about well-being. We sat down with three alumni in healthcare design, Elsie St. Léger ’10 (BFA), Peter Agnew ’15 (BFA)/’16 (MPSH), and Pál András Rutkai ’15 (MPSH), to discuss their careers in this rapidly evolving sector.

Winter 2021Jen DorrDecember 18, 2020alumni, career changer, careers, healthcare interior design, BFA, MPSH, IIDA

Principled, Passionate, and Entrepreneurial

When we caught up to chat with Beth Diana Smith ’14 (AAS), she was managing her booming small business through the COVID-19 pandemic, and still finding time to volunteer on the New York School of Interior Design’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commission.

Winter 2021Jen DorrDecember 18, 2020careers, career changer, alumni

Notable at NYSID: Winter 2021

A roundup of news items about NYSID trustees, alumni, faculty, and students.

Layout, Winter 2021Guest UserSeptember 30, 2020students, alumni, faculty, trustees

Different Generations, Same Drive

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.

Summer 2020, alumni, careers, studentsGuest UserJuly 22, 2020alumni, students, BFA, careers, career changer, outcomes, Nantucket by Design

Return to Optimism

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.

Cause Design Can Change You

MFA-1 students Mika Jiaravanont ’20 and Joanne Park ’20 spent the past two summers participating in community service projects for Safe Horizon, an organization that provides shelter, counseling, and other services to victims of violence. Here’s a deep dive into their experiences!

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