On September 5, 2019, alumni, students, and trustees came to the opening of Pattern and Process, Selections from the Kravet Archive in the NYSID gallery at 70th Street. The exhibit was curated by Darling Green and designed to resemble the Kravet Archives in Bethpage, NY, complete with flat file drawers that hold selections of important textiles, objects, and documents and visitors can pull out to study.
Read MoreNYSID’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.
Read MoreEver 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreNYSID 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.
Read MoreFifty 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.
Read MoreNYSID’s graduating class received the wisdom of two influencers in interior design, Nate Berkus and Elaine Griffin, at the 2019 commencement ceremony. On May 23, cheers rose from the seats of the 92nd Street Y as the New York School of Interior Design’s 111 graduates marched across the stage to accept their diplomas.
Read More“Charlotte Moss’s generosity in endowing this scholarship made a critical difference to me: it helped reduce my debt and enabled me to buy a laptop. Buying that laptop meant I could work as many hours as it would take to give school my all. And believe me … I gave it my all.” –Rachel Edelstein ’19 (BFA)
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNYSID’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.
Read MoreWhen 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.”
Read MoreThe New York School of Interior Design attracts career-changers as students. They bring a wealth of perspectives to the classroom, experience that informs the way they approach the built environment. This is particularly apparent in the stories of NYSID’s veterans.
Read MoreEric Cohen, AIA, Senior Associate Principal at Ethelind Coblin Architect, is his firm’s in-house expert on Universal Design and has worked extensively on contract and residential interiors for seniors.
Read MoreStefan 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.
Read MoreOn May 24, acclaimed interior designer Juan Montoya, Principal of his eponymous design firm, addressed the graduating class at the New York School of Interior Design’s 2018 Commencement Ceremony.
Read More"When you make education possible for a talented student who does not have the financial means to study, you can change the course of a life and make an impact for decades to come." –Dr. Krystyna Breger
Read MoreThe 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.
Read More“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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