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Make 10 Marketplace Keeps Getting Bigger and Better

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The Assistive Technology Gift Guide

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Student Research Attracts Transportation Fellowships

Design, the Georgia Tech Way

We think it's important to understand how technology enables better design, and how to fuse that technology into buildings, products, lifestyles, cities, regions, and even healthcare.

About the College

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Our Schools

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Design Research

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Design at the College of Design

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Kevin Shankwiler: Design Creates Real-World Solutions to Human Problems

Kevin Shankwiler explains how design ties human needs, artistic creativity, and manufacturing know-how together, creating products that are useful, enjoyable, and practical.
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Gil Weinberg: Designing to Enhance Musical Experience

Gil Weinberg addresses how students and faculty in the Center for Music Technology and School of Music integrate practical design with the art of music, creating devices and applications to enhance musical experience.
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Danielle Willkens: Putting People at the Forefront of Design

At Georgia Tech's School of Architecture, Danielle Willkens sees design as creative workflows making the world around us better, putting the needs and experiences of people in the foreground.
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Gregory Randolph: Designing Cities, Supporting Communities

Gregory Randolph explains how Georgia Tech students and faculty approach the discipline of city and regional planning.
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Meet Our New Faculty: Fall Semester 2024

Hui Cai

Hui Cai

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Hyojin Kwon

Hyojin Kwon

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Thomas Phifer

Thomas Phifer

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Hugo Sheward

Hugo Sheward

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Michael Stradley

Michael Stradley

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Majors and Degrees

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Undergraduate Programs

Our bachelor of science degrees combine creativity, collaboration, and technology.
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Graduate Programs

Our graduate students use design to solve real-world problems and develop new technologies.
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Degrees and Certificates

A full list of the College of Design degrees, minors, and certificates.
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Our Work, Our Impact

Georgia Tech Industrial Design Majors stand with Nicky Crawford, to present their design for the wash bus. On the right, a photo of Crawford doing laundry in the bus.

Industrial Design Students Partner to Create a Mobile Laundry Bus

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Access Granted: Inside the Inside the $4.3 Million Project on Employment for People with Disabilities

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Georgia Tech team presents at ULI Hines Competition.

Design Team Takes the Win at ULI Hines Competition

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The Citizen Architect: Tech's Signature Approach to Architecture

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Pioneering Process Leads to Big Win for Tech Research Team

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What Happens When Extreme Temperatures Meet Urban Research?

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Lisa Marks

Space Lace: Net Fishing in Low Earth Orbit

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Art and Technology Harmonize in School of Music

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Student Achievement

Lyriel Todd's project Ode.

First-Year Student Wins Third at Lyceum Fellowship Competition

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Design Linking Theory, Material Production

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Student Projects, Reck Garage Win AIA Aspire Award

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Karina Bhattacharya, lower right corner, presents her published paper The Design of Politics and Capitalism at the IDSA Education Symposium.

Tech Student Presents at IDSA Education Symposium

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Student Journal Wins Douglas Haskell Award

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Senior Housing Carries Turac To Berkeley Prize

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What's Been Happening in the College

Industrial design students carve pumpkins at the Pumpkin Ramble event.

Expert Jack-O'-Lantern Design at the IDSA Pumpkin Ramble

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Thomas Phifer lectures at the podium in Georgia Tech's Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium.

Phifer Explores Shaping Light in Life-Changing Projects

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Janelle Peters holds a dog in the Georgia Tech Architecture Courtyard.

ECO Creates Sustainable Canine Comfort

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Student Planning Association Builds Yellow Jacket Network

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Resurging Atlanta IDSA Links Students to Industry

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Portman Prize Critic: Architects Must Think Simultaneously About Design Dimensions

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Robot Guitarist Plays With Human Expressivity

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Student Musicians Engage Community

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Bruce Stiftel Elected APA Director-at-Large

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Media Inquiries

 
Ann Hoevel
Director of Communications
College of Design
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