Graduate students from the Interior Architecture program presented their work on a symposium panel at the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) titled “Bright Futures, Dark Futures: Envisioning the Consequences of Climate Change.”

Expect the experimental; 3-D design, handcrafted macramé, silk embellishments and some sustainably sourced collections will set the stage at Drexel’s University’s annual fashion show on Saturday, June 1 presented by the Fashion Design and Design & Merchandising programs in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

The creativity of local students will be on full display this summer as the 29-story LED array of Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre office building is once again converted into the world’s largest video game display. Students and teachers from K-12 schools across the Greater Philadelphia region have been working with experts in Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio to design and code new games for the building — those games will debut on the evening of June 10 as part of a celebration for the opening of the city’s newest green space, Drexel Square. The opening of Drexel Square park marks the first completed project of the Schuylkill Yards development, a 14-acre master-planned neighborhood in University City being developed by Brandywine Realty Trust on land owned by and in coordination with Drexel.

Interior Design junior Justin Lee was awarded second place in the national Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship competition, which awards interior design students with scholarships and summer internships. 

Chloe Tolderlund, a sophomore in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design's Product Design program won the NYCxDesign Student Design Award at the 2019 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF).

Upon the release of Nat Turner Rebellion’s debut album 50 years after its recording, Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and its MAD Dragon Music Group brought together the album’s many collaborators and the group’s sole-surviving member for an evening of celebration and remembrance.