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DAAP in the News: New York Times, Fast Company and More
Two young alums from the University of Cincinnatis
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) were recently
featured in The New York Times
for their innovative work.
Tara Finke and Megan Scherer were featured for their designs of artwork and notebooks with Nevada mug shots from the 1950s. As design, their work is so successful that the company is expanding. Its also work that is gaining national and international attention not only for the originality of the design concept but for raising broader societal questions.
And just as recently,
Fast Company featured the efforts
of three undergraduate industrial design students who teamed up for an experiment in education called the
. They partnered with a local, inner-city high school and several footwear companies to lead a curriculum focusing on footwear design as a means to bring further educational opportunities to the teens in the form of critical thinking and technical skills that are commonly found within design challenges.
These werent the only recent kudos earned by DAAP. Others include
- Inclusion of UC in Fashionista.coms rankings of the nations top 20 fashion programs.
- Inclusion of UCs Live Well Collaborative in the list, 10 Cool Ways Colleges Are Collaborating with Businesses, found on BestCollegesOnline.com
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