Schedule Change: Lara Cornell will host the March Town Hall which was moved from February. Our special guest for the Town Hall is one of our current MASD students, Lara Cornell. CEO | Founder | Creative Director at Artisan + Co “When you’re ready to turn pro, Lara’s inspiring and honest book is a great place to →

Welcome Fall 2022! We’re so happy to welcome our newest MA in Sustainable Design students! As always, they bring passion and a diversity of experiences and backgrounds. We have eight students starting this semester: Lara Cornell Danielle Dekalb Hilmarie Figueroa Janet Gonzales Jessica Neal Veronica Mangio Golaleh Poorsoltan Meg Raiano You can read about each →

I recently had an opportunity to speak with my friend and former classmate, Amy Dritz who graduated with a Master of Arts in Sustainable Design in 2014. She is currently living in Minneapolis, MN. What are you currently doing or working on? Co-founded Ecocrumb (an ESG-focused software startup) with fellow MASD alum Gautam Muralidharan What →

We’re so happy to welcome our newest MA in Sustainable Design students! As always, they bring passion and a diversity of experiences and backgrounds. We have eleven students staring this semester: Walker Cahall Michelle Dunn Ophélie Echelard Maribel Funes Sarah Hashiguchi Kate Ithurralde Tania Kac Sarah Morrison Sarah North Anna Schmiel Caitlin Voss You can →

As a lead up to Sustainable Brands conference SB’18 , students, alumni, and faculty of our MA in Sustainable Design program interviewed selected speakers — leaders in corporate sustainability initiatives.  In this blog we share our interview with Nicole Hagerman Miller, Managing Director of B3.8.   Nicole, what did you talk about at SB’18? I’I →

As Director of MCAD’s MA in Sustainable Design, I can’t help but be biased about our amazing program, our incredible faculty, and our fantastic students.  So instead of reading my thoughts on why you might need a Sustainable Designer to help you solve your biggest challenges — as well as help all of us address →

At different times, in different places, and for different reasons, each followed her guiding star. Those stars led to a love of nature, then careers in graphic design, and then to the MCAD Sustainable Design program where eventually their stars collided and formed Humbleweed Creative. Ask one of the partners at Humbleweed Creative what brought →

The human brain is the pinnacle of evolution – or so we humans like to think. Our highly evolved brains provide us with the apparently unique capacity for self-awareness, to understand abstract concepts such as humanity, hubris, and humility.  This capacity also provides us with the ability — and awesome responsibility — to choose how →

As my final post to the blog (sniff), I sat down with Denise DeLuca -the new Sustainable Design program director at MCAD– to capture her thoughts about this new chapter in her career. I know she is going to do an excellent job and wish her and the program the best for the future. Cindy: →

We are happy announce our newest MASD graduates, Christian, George, Megan and Zachary! We are very proud of you and your sustainability-focused work, from green product design to craft brewing to a biomimicry-inspired education model. We look forward to seeing the things that you do and places that you go. These MASD students graduated Friday, →