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Design Students Compete as Finalists with Biodesign Project

SeaNails, a team of UC Davis design students, will be competing as finalists with their project at the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2023, June 22-23. This year’s summit will be held in person at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design in New York City.

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Design Students Create Bike Scavenger Hunt

Design students from DES187 Narrative Environments, taught by Professor Tim McNeil, created the 2023 City of Davis Bike Scavenger Hunt that took place on June 3. The student team designed the event identity, clues, and activities.

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Tim McNeil Publishes “The Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook”

The book cover of Tim McNeil's new book, with black and white drawings overlaid with the book's title in red and white lettering.

A new book by Professor Timothy J McNeil, director of the UC Davis Design Museum, is an insightful guide for creating successful museum and gallery exhibitions, and themed environments.

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Niloufar Abdolmaleki Receives SEGD Award

Graduate student Niloufar Abdolmaleki has received a Merit Award from the 2023 Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) Global Design Awards.

Upcoming Events

Event

“Cultural Crossroads: Recent Acquisitions from the Jo Ann C. Stabb Collection”
Sept. 26 to Dec. 1, 2023

Newly acquired garments and textiles from around the globe are featured in the exhibition “Cultural Crossroads: Recent Acquisitions from the Jo Ann C. Stabb Collection,” opening Sept. 26 at the UC Davis Design Museum. The exhibition runs through Dec. 1.

Event

Negar Kalantar: “Design for Circularity”
Research in Design Speaker Series

The UC Davis Department of Design launches a new lecture program Research in Design Speaker Series with Negar Kalantar as the inaugural presenter. Her presentation “Design for Circularity: Backward Design for Forward Progress” is Oct. 4 at noon in Cruess Hall 1105. The event is free and open to the public.

Event

Pape Diop’s Mystical Graffiti (Dakar, Senegal)

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of World Arts and Cultures at UC Los Angeles Allen F. Roberts will give a free public talk on the murals of the Senegalese artist Pape Diop for the Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium.

Event

Nettrice Gaskins: “Theory, Content & Style in the AI Revolution”
ALBERINI FAMILY SPEAKER SERIES IN DESIGN

Digitial aritist Nettrice Gaskins, whose works explores “techno-vernacular creativity” and Afrofuturism, will be the fall 2023 guest for the Alberini Family Speaker Series in Design at UC Davis. Her talk is titled “Theory, Content & Style in the AI Revolution.” 

Event

STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons
Jan. 23 – April 23, 2024

The UC Davis Design Museum explores racism through cartoons in the installation “STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons.” Showcasing the work of pioneering father/daughter cartoonists the late Brumsic Brandon, Jr. and Barbara Brandon-Croft, the exhibition runs Jan. 23 through April 21, 2024. 

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