SVA MFA Products of Design

Introducing the Nimbus Cloud Shower Chair: A high-end shower chair designed by Elaine Gao ’25 and Harsha Pillai ’25 for affluent young professionals who consider self-care a top priority. This chair takes your shower to the next level of relaxation, with ergonomic seating and a luxury feel.

Read about their research and design process on our blog (link in bio).

Product, Brand, Experience (PBX) taught by Hlynur Atlason: In this course, students discover how product design, consumer experience and branding interrelate, and how addressing the needs of both users and markets from different perspectives can provide a more holistic approach to the creation of designed objects.

Did you forget someone or need inspiration? If you’re doing last-minute gift shopping, we have the perfect thing: our gift guide includes games, books, fashion-forward designs and whimsical objects made by PoD alumni and faculty.

Many items are available at the MoMA stores or online for quick and easy gifting so save this post and keep these products in your back pocket for holidays, birthdays, and more 🎁

BAGGS are one of a kind jewelry accessories for your crypto hardware wallet; a conversation piece for the web3 evangelista; an apostate symbol for those who know.

Presenting designed by Monty Preston ‘26

Each BAGGS piece is created by hand, and designed to make a statement. Not for those hoping to go unnoticed. Wearers should expect to be approached and questioned about this accessory.

The success of the web3 movement relies on continuous sharing of security and self-sovereignty best practices with those inside and outside of the community. BAGGS creates more opportunities for this discourse to spread, especially within the femme community.

Learn more about self custody at baggs.wtf/fun

Join us for our last guest lecture this Fall: "The Art of Orchestrating Agencies”

Tega Brain will share a recent body of work exploring climate, computation and art as a means of orchestrating agency. How might we expand an imagination for designing systems that function in harmony with their surrounding environments.

REGISTER for the event via the link in bio.

Join us for a talk with Tega Brain

Tega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer born when atmospheric CO2 was below 350pm. Her work addresses issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure and has taken the form of digital networks controlled by environmental phenomena, schemes for obfuscating personal data, and al wildly popular, online smell-based dating service.
Through these provisional systems she investigates how technologies orchestrate and reorchestrate agency.

In 2023, she completed Eccentric Engineering,
her PhD by practice at the Australian National University. This practice-led project interrogates how automated systems and Al are reshaping ecological thought. It also develops a model for practice called
eccentric engineering that not only critiques the technological status quo but also, importantly, suggests new possibilities, imaginaries and approaches for designing systems that act in concert with their environments and which serve ecosystemic
rather than exclusively human agendas.

REGISTER for the event via the link in bio.

We proudly welcome artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain to close out our Fall 2024 Speaker Series.

In “The Art of Orchestrating Agencies,” Tega Brain will share a recent body of work exploring climate, computation and art as a means of orchestrating agency. How might we expand an imagination for designing systems that function in harmony with their surrounding environments.

REGISTER for the event via the link in bio.

Can we transform Al into a tools of collective empathy?

Pau from guided our second years through a fascinating AI workshop, considering ways to mitigate bias and testing its ability to invent a religion.

They used ChatGPT, Krea, and Tripo to create a create the places, objects, rituals etc of a religion based on 7 photos that capture their character and value.

Thank you Pau for giving us a look into the work DDS is doing. We are looking forward to your second workshop in a few weeks!



We want to hear your thoughts on AI in the comments👇

“I want everybody to participate as much as they can because their opinions are important.”

Artwork & quote by SVA BFA Illustration faculty, Lisk Feng

PoD students and faculty are proud to vote today ❤️🤍💙

First years killing it at the parade! 🎃 🔪 🍬

Great weather, better company at . 📸:

Dear Prospective Students,

Our wonderful Department Chair and Director of Operations will be participating in a variety of National Portfolio Day events across the country.

We invite you to attend the events in Chicago, NYC, and online to receive valuable guidance & feedback. This is also a great opportunity to get to know our program better.

Chicago: 10/19 10-2pm CST with Julia

NYC: 11/10 12-4pm EST with Allan

Virtual: 11/17 5-9pm EST with Allan

Check out the amazing Modern Geometry Jewelry Stand designed by PoD’s own, for sale now at

Congratulations to PoD’s very own and for being shortlisted by industry experts for the .sthread Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024 in collaboration with , + 👏👏👏 public voting is now open. Link in bio!

Bright dahlias on a rainy day at the Union Square green market 💛

2nd years practiced doing an observational study at the market before doing the exercise for their own thesis topics.

Week 2 in Thesis Studio: sharing moodboards and up to 50 ideas for a provotype💡

Next week: make the provotype

Field trip! 2nd years attended this week’s Designing for Public Policy class at the office in Dumbo. They had a fruitful discussion of the first two chapters of “Poverty, by America” by Matthew Desmond and defined key words that will help contextualize issues they’ll be workshopping over the next few weeks.

Happy Friday!

Tonight is the night we hear from expert transition designer Cameron Tonkinwise!

Please join us on zoom at 6pm EST for an engaging lecture and Q&A.

Zoom link in bio & story.

See you soon!

THIS THURSDAY:

Join us for an engaging virtual lecture and Q&A with transition designer Cameron Tonkinwise.

Designing Support: Foreseeing Interdependencies

REGISTER for the event & zoom access via link in bio.