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Interior Design Student Treks to Ghana on a Mission to Serve

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Thumb through Jihad Peoples’ LinkedIn page and you’ll find a list of causes he supports, from civil rights and social action to disaster and humanitarian relief, poverty alleviation and economic empowerment.   It’s no surprise the School of Art + Design student opted to spend his spring bre...

NJIT Alum Named Partner at DMR Architects

Thursday, February 16th, 2017
​ NJIT alum Kurt Vierheilig ’99 has been named one of five new partners at DMR Architects, the fourth-largest architecture firm in New Jersey. Vierheilig, who joined DMR in 1999 after earning a B.Arch. at the College of Architecture and Design (CoAD), leads the creative design ...

NJIT Grad Talks Digital Design

Monday, January 16th, 2017
Pixar has been entertaining millions for over two decades with brilliant work like “Toy Story,” “The Incredibles” and “Up.” The American film animation studio also continues to inspire budding animation artists, like 2016 graduate Mark Sanna, to create their own art and stories.

Course Spotlight: Behind the Scenes of the Incredible CoAD Superhero Studio

Friday, January 13th, 2017
During the 2015 fall semester, there was a collective of interior, digital and industrial designers and architects holed up in the Idea Factory on the lower level of Cypress Hall creating the legends of tomorrow. The widely-acclaimed Superhero Studio is a collaborative design workshop headed by Assi...

Can-do Attitude

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
Clad in bright red T-shirts, teetering on stepladders in a cordoned off section of Livingston Mall, a team of designers from Gensler’s Morristown branch work together to build a massive mailbox constructed entirely from canned goods. It’s “Build Day,” and they’ve been stacking and arrangi...

A Dream Come True

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
Having grown exponentially over the last decade, the city of Newark continues to burgeon as a mecca of architectural rebirth, thanks in part to creatives like College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) alum Kyle Rendall ’07. As an associate and senior project architect at KSS Architects, a full-serv...

Prime Time

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
Contrary to popular belief, the world of interior design isn’t all pillow fluffing, couch shopping and paint sampling. “Sure, it’s a part of the job, but it goes far beyond that,” insists Elouie Gaspar. “I feel like anyone can decorate, but not everyone has the skills to design a space. We care abou...

All Abroad

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
The Digital Stone Project is a summer workshop offered by Italian stone-cutting company Garfagnana Innovazione. Students from NJIT, NYIT, Yale University, Bennington College and William Paterson University were selected by their respective faculty and brought to Garfagnana, Italy to work with the la...

NJIT Ranks in the Top 7 Percent of Interior Design Programs Nationwide

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
The interior design program at the School of Art + Design—which joined the New Jersey School of Architecture to form the College of Architecture and Design at NJIT in 2008—has recently been ranked #13 nationally by DesignIntelligence. Currently the only school in New Jersey to house ...

Mane Event

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
It’s not everyday you find a course that dissects the symbolism of hair—at a technology university, no less. But twice a week at NJIT, on the third floor of the Central King Building, adjunct professor Patti O’Brien-Richardson teaches “HAIR: Culture, Politics and Technology,” a senior seminar offere...