OUTPUT is an internationally renown platform based in Amsterdam for design and architecture students. Every year they organize one of the largest design competitions worldwide, this being their 15th edition. Out of about 1000 students that applied 60 were chosen, one of which was Minneapolis of College and Art and Design MFA candidate Shannon McCarthy. [...]

For the second consecutive year a designer from the MCAD MFA program has been selected to attend Onlab’s Publication Summer School. Last years topic was entitled a “Chronology of Failure” for which Lauren Thorson was selected as a senior designer. This year the publications theme was “Love, Seduction, and Intimacy in Urban Landscape”, Jasio Stefanski [...]

This years Room & Board (RB) competition yielded 24 applicants from which 5  finalists were chosen. The winning design, entitled “Clutch”, was created by Steve Listwon (MFA ’13). “Clutch” could potentially go into production over the next year and would be the first in the competitions 10 year tradition. Listwons’ work utilizes custom connectors paired [...]