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.
Read MoreThe Office of Academic Affairs awarded the students whose capstone projects are featured here the Chairman’s Award for their overall performance at NYSID.
Read More“It’s an exciting time for this field and having this program at NYSID means we get to participate in—and sometimes lead—the evolution of sustainable design.” —David Bergman, architect and director of NYSID’s MPS in Sustainable Interior Environments
Read More“The field of architectural lighting is growing rapidly. The growth is driven by worldwide efforts toward creating sustainable spaces, combined with the advancement of LED technology and advanced controls.” —Shaun Fillion, lighting designer and director of NYSID’s MPS Lighting Design program
Read More“The interior design community is a large part of our business, and education is crucial to the continued advancement of interior design.” —Jose Veliz, senior manager of the Architect and Designer Segment, Benjamin Moore Inc
Read MoreOn October 23, 2019, the New York School of Interior Design hosted a costume ball that engaged the entire community in a fun, immersive lesson in the principles of the Bauhaus movement. At a faculty meeting months before, instructors Stefanie Werner and Francisco De Leon raised the idea of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with a party in the tradition of the movement’s famous costume balls.
Read MoreOn September 23, 2019, NYSID trustees, alumni, and supporters came out to kick off this year’s Dialogues on Design series at The Educated Eye Luncheon in the lovely interior of a private club in New York City.
Read MoreOn 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.
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