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February 27, 2025

Student Takeaways from the Transit Mapping Symposium

Sheena Chiang
February 24, 2024

Typography in Flags

Dania Ezz
February 10, 2024

Blacksmith Coffee Company: A Case Study

Afra Lootah
February 8, 2024

Website Wars

Sheena Chiang
February 7, 2024

Rediscovering The Sense of Disorientation

Alima Zhagufarova
December 7, 2023

Color Blindness and Traffic Light Designs

Boby Liu
November 19, 2023

“Designing Hope: My Journey Redesigning the 2000 Florida Ballot”

Ghadah Madani
October 16, 2023

When Re-Design (unintentionally) meets Bioinspiration

Maxine Deluca
October 16, 2023

Wayfinding in Ulaanbaatar

Mega Olonbayar
October 13, 2023

When Graphic Design meets Science: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions

Alima Zhagufarova
October 11, 2023

Visualizing Music Through Design: TXT

Fatima Aljunaibi
September 25, 2023

Rethinking Sustainable Choices: The Paper Straw and Bag Predicament

Lincoln Adomako
May 15, 2023

Navigating Death: Service Design for End-of-Life Care Facilities

Maisy Nels
May 15, 2023

Charting the Cosmos: The Wild World of Zero-Gravity Wayfinding

Meera Al Khazraji
April 14, 2023

Finding Your Way to the Kaaba

Fatema Alhameli
April 2, 2023

Do “We ❤️” This New Logo?

Celia Forster
March 11, 2023

The Risks and Rewards of Localizing Pictograms

Celia Forster
February 24, 2023

Multisensory Memorial Design & Placemaking

Maisy Nelson
December 12, 2022

You Have Emotions and So Do I

Eadin Wang
December 9, 2022

Ode to the Shanghai Metro

Phoebe Lemon
December 8, 2022

Mosaic murals in Georgia: Street Art from the Past

Xiaoyan Zhou
November 16, 2022

Jerseys, Badges, and Branding

Shawn Nassabi
November 7, 2022

Wayfinding and inclusivity in Mexico

Erica Miranda Brito
October 3, 2022

This essay is not original.

Zareth Ramos
May 11, 2022

A Letter: Top 10 Lessons From the Wayfinding Class

Abdelrahman Khater
March 7, 2022

Is the user always right?

Ishmal Khalid
March 6, 2022

Petition for NYUAD flags to be planted

Roba Olana
March 6, 2022

Mexican Rótulos

Miriam Delgado
December 16, 2021

Why my Louvre? Why have you forsaken us?

WIlliam Mlekush
March 7, 2021

Navigating Lahore

Muhammad hasin Shabbir
October 20, 2020

Inclusive Design: Pictograms for Everyone

Owen Zhang
October 12, 2020

Designing Vulnerabilities

Oscar Bray
October 4, 2020

Building knock-offs: what is originality in Architecture?

Jason Cruz
November 15, 2018

Where has Professor Goffredo gone?

Maximus Nobes
February 21, 2015

Disability is Not Discussed in Our Community

Mariko Kuroda
January 1, 2013

A Refusal to Specialize

Erin Collins
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