Hi y’all! Join Cindy Gilbert, director of MCAD’s Sustainable Design Program, for a 1-hr informational webinar about the fully online Master of Arts in Sustainable Design degree offered by MCAD. Webinar is scheduled for February 17 @7pm CT. Cindy promises to field all questions at that time. Just try to stump her! Sign up in →
We are very proud of our newest cohort (entering Spring 2015; start on Tuesday, January 20th) of MASD students. Take a moment to meet them by perusing their profiles listed below. Welcome students! Ricky Ledesma (Maryland) – Is about affordable and accessible 3D printing. Claire Lukens (Minnesota) – Loves the tiny house movement. Ben Marquardt →
A big congratulations to our twelve December 2014 graduates. We couldn’t be more proud of you and your work! It was especially delightful to have 7 students attend the commencement ceremony in person last week. Completed Summer 2014: Jerad Carlson’s thesis was titled, “Whole Earth Sports: Developing a Product-Service for a Sustainable Focused Sports Brand.” →
Want to join the MASD program? We are currently accepting applications from prospective students for this 100% online program devoted to sustainability-focused design. Deadline to apply for Spring 2015 entrance is November 1, 2014. Spring semester begins January 20, 2015. Contact us Contact sustainable_design[at]mcad.edu for more information. Learn more Cindy Gilbert from MCAD →
Hear ye, hear ye… Join Cindy Gilbert, director of MCAD’s Sustainable Design Program, for a 1-hr informational webinar about the fully online Master of Arts in Sustainable Design degree offered by MCAD. Webinar is scheduled for October 21 @7pm CT. Cindy promises to field all questions at that time! Just try to stump her 🙂 →
NEW!!! Spring 2015 entrance. Deadline to apply: November 1, 2014. Join an upcoming webinar to learn more. Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is pushing the design envelope with their new Master of Arts in Sustainable Design—an interdisciplinary, studio design-oriented degree that is also offered completely online. The Designers Accord talks to Director (and →
MCAD’s MASD program was a proud sponsor of the recent annual Bike In Movie Night brought to the Minneapolis Midtown Greenway by AIGA Minnesota. We were delighted to have MASD instructors, Holly Robbins and Curt McNamara, kick off the event. At sundown on August 22, about 75 people flocked to the Midtown Greenway under pedal →
A big congratulations to our 2013-14 graduates. We couldn’t be more proud of you and your work. Elke Erschfeld’s thesis was titled, “The Life of Life Events: Using leverage points, Life Cycle Thinking (LCT), and infographics to influence sustainable consumer behavior.” Sarah Dehlinger-Stanke’s thesis was titled, “Connecting to Nature in Interior Dementia Care Environments.” Mirna →
Designs can be patterned after nature and Bucky Fuller embraced this idea. “To [Buckminster] Fuller, a great technology had already been at work for millions of years — Nature. To look at the way “she” designs the universe was to unlock the most useful direction one could take in designing the artifacts that would make →
Spring came early this year for the MASD program. Although Minneapolis is shattering historical records for extreme winter weather without any sign of spring in sight, we are tickled to announce the rebirth of the MCAD Sustainable Design blog in all of its colorful glory. For us, our blog redesign is like the first intrepid →