Students gathering outside a modern school building with large windows and concrete steps, sitting and talking in groups on a sunny day.
Architectural illustration in the opening frame courtesy of Starling Whitehead & Lux and Stephanie Bower.

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what matters.

Step inside our new building and witness the work that will define the next era of design. The exhibition is open now.

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See the building, meet the faculty, and find your place on the studio floor before the next deadline.

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Create without Slios

Four disciplines, One Space

Our 2026 Student Project Exhibition is live. Walk through a curated carousel of the year's best work across art, architecture, design, and gaming. The new building is the venue and the work is the proof.

Student WORK

Student work that speaks

A selection of projects from the studio floor to the gallery wall.

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Architectural presentation board showing the facade concept and materials for Bloom Children's Health Center, featuring urban grid design, mass timber structural system, rainscreen facade system details, and occupancy classification. Includes rendered images of the building with a curved, tiered tower on top of a blue and white multi-story base with balconies, diagrams of the urban grid pattern and mass timber structure, material facade studies in circular insets, and technical drawings with annotations.
Architecture
by Larrisa Costa

Bloom Children's Health Center

Bloom Children’s Health Center in Philadelphia integrates pediatric care, medical education, and community spaces into a compact, child-centered healing environment. By uniting formerly fragmented services, this welcoming facility seamlessly supports patients, families, and medical trainees within an urban landscape.
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Comparison of Old Style and Modern serif typefaces with annotations. Old Style features diagonal axis, bracketed serif, angled head serif, and moderate contrast on the letters 'Old Style' with a sample of Garamond font styles listed. Modern shows vertical axis, straight and unbracketed serifs, and high contrast between thin and thick strokes on the word 'Modern' with a sample of Didot font styles listed. Text explains Old Style origins in Renaissance period with Venetian printers and Modern style pioneered by Didot and Bodoni with emphasis on elegance and precision.
Graphic Design
by Karol Quintero

Essential Typography & Layout Guide

Mastering the Mark: A Definitive Student Guide to Typography, Hierarchy, and Grid Systems.
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Art & Illustration
Hanna Basalik

Wrens

Course Intro: This course explores the fundamentals of repeatable print media, including relief, monotype, monoprint, intaglio (dry and wet techniques), and stencil printing. Students create repeatable matrix and edition prints.
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A cobblestone street in a European-style village lined with colorful buildings in red, green, blue, and yellow, featuring a tall brick church tower, potted sunflowers, and a blossoming tree against a backdrop of mountains at sunset.
Game DEISGN
By Kimberly Julian

Alpine Canal Quarter

Alpine Canal Quarter is a game-ready 3D environment capstone blending 17th-century Dutch and Flemish townhouses with a rugged alpine backdrop. Built to current studio specifications, the scene showcases modular kit design, shared trim sheets, PBR materials, and cinematic dusk lighting optimized for real-time performance.
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Artistic representation of a golden face with closed eyes and tears, adorned with blue circular earrings and a colorful headdress showing moon phases, surrounded by two sun and moon faces on gold tassels, all set against a blue swirling background framed by a decorative golden-brown border with animal and symbol motifs.
Art & Illustration
By Helen KAssA

Masks

This cumulative course blends traditional analog art with digital environments, exploring how illustration evolves across multiple formats. Students will use illustrated elements to create traditional and non-traditional product designs while engaging in focused, supervised studio time. Through independent study, team collaboration, and guided critique, students will create and refine projects in preparation for their final thesis exhibition.
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Start your Journey

From the first sketch to the exhibition wall

Every project in the expo started somewhere. This is the path from a blank page to a career launch.

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Find your discipline among art, architecture, design, and gaming. The work starts with a choice.

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Submit your portfolio and secure your place on the studio floor. The deadline is closer than you think.

Create and build

Long nights in the fabrication lab. Critique sessions that leave a mark. This is where you become a maker.

Exhibit and launch career

Your work goes up on the gallery wall. Recruiters walk through. The exhibition is your first professional debut.

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Center for Design

A Building for Creatives Minds

This is not a quiet museum. It is a machine for making, filled with the noise of saws, the heat of servers, and the friction of critique.

A building that fosters creativity

Studios with the light of the Pacific Northwest

Critique spaces built for honest, hard talk

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