LWTech Design

🎨 Hello Future Designers 👋
Ready to take your design skills further and make real-world impact?

Join our BASD Info Session and learn how design can solve complex, human-centered challenges.

✨ Curriculum overview
🧠 Real-world design strategy & systems
🎓 Application tips
👋 Meet Prof. Steve Ater

📍 East Building, Room E207
🗓 Wed 1/21
⏰ 4:00 PM

Evening classes 🌙 | Designed for working students
More dates available—can’t make it? DM us or email [email protected]

And how does that make you feel? 🤔

Students in our Typography 2 class worked together to manipulate type to invoke different emotions 🎭

🗣️ Join us for the Design AAS-T Portfolio Show! Students will be sharing their portfolios and receiving feedback from industry professionals joining us from Microsoft, Starbucks, eBay, Amazon, and many more 🤩

Light refreshments will be provided 😊

Design + Illustration Presentations:
🗓️ Date: May 30
⏰ Time: 10am-1pm
📍 Location: Room A102

UX/UI Presentations:
🗓️ Date: June 6
⏰ Morning Session: 10am-1:15pm
⏰ Afternoon Session: 2pm-4:15pm
📍 Location: Room A102

🎓✨ Senior Capstone Showcase 2025

Join us in celebrating the hard work, creativity, and innovation of this year’s graduating design students from Lake Washington Institute of Technology!

🗓️ June 13
🕑 2PM–8PM
📍 E207, Lake Washington Institute of Technology

🖼️ Featuring projects by:
Andrea Anesh
Nahkari Yoeum
Ivanka Gomilko
Natalie Hilker
Paige Miller
Natalia Vechkutova
Eli Phillips
Seung Gwon Cho

Expect design that’s bold, thoughtful, and full of future-thinking—from UX/UI and product design to branding and illustration

✨ Come support emerging talent and see what the next generation of designers is dreaming up!

Thinking about your next move in design?
The BASD program at LWTech offers 2 more years of in-depth, hands-on design education after your associate degree.

🗓️ Info Sessions:
📍 Room E207, East Building
🔹 Tues, May 13 @ 4 PM
🔹 Tues, June 10 @ 4 PM

✨ Meet Professor Steve Ater
✨ See student work
✨ Learn how to apply
✨ Evening classes = work + study balance

🗓 Wednesday, 3/19 at 4 PM
📍 Room E207, East Building
🌟 Exciting things ahead as we wrap up the quarter—new opportunities, creativity, and growth await! 🌱💡
👋 Future Designers,
Ready to level up your design career? Join us for an info session about the Bachelor of Applied Science in Design (BASD) program! 🎨✨
Meet Professor Steve Ater 👨‍🏫 and get the scoop on the curriculum 📚, application process 📝, and more!
Check out amazing student projects from the BASD program 📸 https://basdesignshow.com/coursesnprojectspotlight/.

Plus, our program offers flexibility with evening courses 🌙, so you can balance your day job 💼 while earning your degree.
Can’t make it? No worries! Feel free to email Professor Steve Ater at [email protected] 📧💬.

See you there! 🙌

So proud of the Winter quarter Portfolio students! Both reviews—Design and illustration was last week, UX on Friday 3.14
— were stellar. Received some great feedback from the panelists from Microsoft, Amazon Music and Nordstrom. Pictured here are the User-centered students.

Fun poster by Brianna Ramos.

DSGN 262 User-Centered Prototyping students working on interactive Kiosks, and today they saw their wireframes and mockups come to life on the brand new, giant high-def display. Next come the visual adjustments. Stay tuned for more!

Meal Tracker is an app that combines traditional features with an AI chatbot tailored to nutritional preferences. LWTech User.centered design student team, Nurtilek Rysbaev, Bibi Bazarova and Lizzy Prenger created this 10 week project in DSGN 153, Intro to Web and Mobile Design. Final 22 page presentation includes user research, usability testing, competitive reviews, app icon design, wireframes, and a final prototype with loading animation, micro interactions and CTAs.

Product and Packaging Design students create stamps encouraging people to vote.

Students: Ansari Torobekova, Karly Sierra, Rebeca Aguilar-Diaz

🗓 Date: 6/14/2024
⏰ Time: 3pm-8pm
📍 Location: Room E207 at Lake Washington Tech ( 11605 132nd Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98034)

We are thrilled to invite you to the Bachelor of Applied Science in Design Senior Capstone Exhibition at LWTech! This event showcases the incredible talent and creativity of our graduating design students. Explore a diverse range of innovative projects, from package and product design to UI/UX, magazine concepts, and beyond. Our students have poured their hearts and expertise into these projects, and we can't wait for you to see their work.

Whether you're a design professional, a potential employer, a family member, or a friend, this exhibition is a fantastic opportunity to support our students and be inspired by their creativity and dedication.
Don’t miss out on this chance to witness the future of design. See you there!