When Alex Mora ’14 and Katie Parlow ’15 began to learn the interactive e-book creation program Demibooks Composer for the “Storytelling through the iPad” class, neither student expected to become a published author. Demibooks Storytime publishes the best Composer-based e-books submitted to it from around the globe …
As the fall semester was winding down, a group of Industrial Design students found a way to fill their upcoming winter break – the Visa Lighting Design Competition. Kicking off December 5, students met with representatives from Visa Lighting to “Enlighten Visa with their ideas.” The competition, open to all Industrial …
The annual Professional Portfolio Symposium – part of Understanding the Visual 2 – brought Foundations students and alumni together for a trade show of professionals, with students gaining insights into life after MIAD. The evening featured numerous working professionals and Keynote Speaker Natalie Schraufnagel. Alum Schraufnagel, an industrial designer and design strategist …
Var Gallery & Studios After graduating, Renée Navis ’12 and Josh Hintz ’12 craved the collective influence and supportive community cultivated at MIAD – which is exactly what they intended to recreate when they opened the doors of Var Gallery & Studios. Var Gallery & Studios started as a small collective of MIAD alumni who band …
For the ninth consecutive year, the 53rd annual Milwaukee/NARI Home Improvement Show will hold an Interior Design Competition, and for the first time MIAD sophomores are throwing their hats into the ring. Interior Architecture and Design Professor Robert Lynch’s Work Space/Office Design class will design a 12’ x …
Sophomores and juniors throughout MIAD spent early February submitting their best art and design class projects for the juried exhibition It’s a Major Deal. Both MIAD faculty and an outside juror, Milwaukee Art Museum’s Curator of Photography Lisa J. Sutcliffe, selected the best works that were created in the fall …
