Daniel Michalik (Associate Professor of Product and Industrial Design and Associate Dean of SCE) is one of thirteen designers practising in New York City have been selected as part of dezeen's North American Design 2024 series. bit.ly/46dmlRA

Parsons' Disabled Fashion Student Program is a recruitment, scholarship and mentorship initiative created by Parsons and Tilting the Lens that supports disabled students in attaining a fashion degree and entering the industry with the aim to enact change. bit.ly/3Sb4Dbs

Book girl summer: Why brands are leaning into the literary world Miu Miu’s ‘Summer Reads’ pop-ups are the latest in a line of fashion-literature tie-ups, as houses embrace the written word as a means for cultivating an intellectual brand identity. bit.ly/3Y7rqJ9

The new children's book "America's Dreaming" by Bob McKinnon (Part-time Assistant Professor) tackles issues related to belonging and isolation, while also highlighting the positive effects of reading and community-building. bit.ly/3Wa95Ix

Ouer designers Jeremy Ho and Peter Hu delight in making things “a Little Bit Off.” “We start with pieces that are very classically American, but they’re distorted in different ways so they’re familiar but not super-real,” Hu explained. bit.ly/4f5VxXo

In the diasporic imagination of Nishan Kazazian (Part-time Assistant Professor SCE), the Lebanese-Armenian-American artist bridges art and architecture as part of his life’s work. bit.ly/4f0JxXf

The global immersive platform, Roblox, has partnered with Parsons on a Metaverse Fashion Trend Report and new course and curriculum for students to learn digital fashion design. bit.ly/4dOZezg

The world’s most prestigious arts organizations and forward-thinking artists have exhibited at the Venice Biennale, where millions of arts enthusiasts gather each time it's presented. Congratulations to SCE faculty member Nina Freedman on her installation! bit.ly/3XtXy9b

The Trauma and Global Mental Health (T&GMH) Lab reimagines mental healthcare by investigating disparities in mental health issues and developing innovative solutions and interventions that can eliminate barriers to care. bit.ly/3Xj842H

A single company owns so much of the eyewear industry that it’s hard to escape their gravitational pull — or their “obscene” markups. Should regulators do something? Featuring Jessica Glasscock (Part-time Assistant Professor). bit.ly/3X43yDQ

January Yoon Cho (MFA Design and Technology '99) is an interdisciplinary visual artist working with video, photography, and drawing. Her work intersects with themes of social conformity, feminism, and environmentalism. bit.ly/4749pxu

Gucci has unveiled the fifth cohort for the Gucci Changemakers North America Scholarship Program including BFA Fashion design students Matthew Beeston and Christopher Seng. bit.ly/3YXKUAc

Noemi Florea (BFA Integrated Design '23) is the founder of Laero Design Studio and creator of Cycleau, a unique grey water management system that could save millions of gallons of water each year & help protect impoverished families from water insecurity. bit.ly/3MnweTr

Jilly Traganou (Professor of Architecture and Urbanism), author of Designing the Olympics, said she appreciated the unifying message of the new pictograms, which, with their coat of arms, emphasize "the idea of belonging to a particular sport." wapo.st/476Bep8

In this year's re:D magazine, creativity takes our community across boundaries both physical and academic. This issue highlights members of the Parsons community who are dissolving boundaries and pursuing the goal of creating a better world. bit.ly/3Z6wnSO

Angeline Gragasin (Faculty, School of Art and Design History and Theory) completed a Yaddo residency in the Film and Video discipline, where she developed a new feature-length screenplay. bit.ly/3Mr70Ul

Congratulations to Mohammad Valizadeh Alvan (MFA Lighting Design and Architectural Design ’25) who was awarded a merit scholarship which will provide instrumental funds for him as he begins his final thesis year at Parsons! bit.ly/3Z2lS2L

In the design trend where old-fashioned techniques related to leather-making, millinery, and more are becoming increasingly popular, here's what Fiona Dieffenbacher (Associate Professor of Fashion Design) says about how it’s impacted design education. nytimes.com/2024/07/25/nyr…

Hazel Clark (Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies) described Kamala Harris’s fashion choices as "not looking too outrageously different" and "not looking too feminine." bit.ly/3APD15P

Peggy Moffitt was "transgressing extreme femininity toward something that identified with the avant-garde ideal of the ’60s," as Jessica Glasscock (Part-time Faculty at the School of Art and Design History and Theory) described. nyti.ms/4cYyfAd