The Design Lab is a student-run organization where NYU students can get help, find resources, build skills and gain confidence. The Design Lab is a space for creative collaboration and idea sharing.


Drop-in hours where you can meet Design lab leaders and ask about anything related to your design process or needs including
  1. Concept development
  2. Design ideation
  3. Software skills
  4. Visual inspiration and references
  5. Typography and Layout
  6. UX frameworks
  7. Design outputs

Skill Building Workshops

  1. A library of design 101 software tutorials including: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Figma and more.
  2. Weekly workshops to support class and project needs and empower students with design skills.
  3. Cheat sheets including shortcuts, tips and work flow methods that will expand your tool belt

Resources and news

  1. A list of platforms and software offered to students for free or at a discount.
  2. An inspiring and dynamic portfolio of projects, blogs and news. We will be posting on a weekly basis and encourage our community to share their work and inspiration.


Office hours where you can meet Design lab leaders and ask about anything related to your design process or needs including

  1. Concept development
  2. Design ideation
  3. Software skills
  4. Visual inspiration and references
  5. Typography and Layout
  6. UX frameworks
  7. Design outputs

Skill Building Workshops

  • A library of design 101 software tutorials including: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Figma and more.
  • Weekly workshops to support class and project needs and empower students with design skills.
  • Cheat sheets including shortcuts, tips and work flow methods that will expand your tool belt

Resources and news

  • A list of platforms and software offered to students for free or at a discount.
  • An inspiring and dynamic portfolio of projects, blogs and news. We will be posting on a weekly basis and encourage our community to share their work and inspiration.


We are a student-run organization.

We love everything about design and we are eager to share our knowledge and learn from our community.  We strive to create open dialogue and discussion in order to empower students to better integrate design into any project and build confidence in their style and skills.

The Design Lab will be a space to talk about design, share ideas and inspiration and support student creativity in a constructive and helpful way. 

Faculty 
Katherine Dillion

Mentors
Eden Chinn
Akshita Bawa
Michael Zhou

Please write us at
design-lab@itp.nyu.edu

if you have any questions, suggestions or if you might want to join our team.

Drop-in hours can also be booked by clicking here.

If you have any feedback or requests for a workshop, please fill out
this quick survey!








Calendar




Call for Submissions

                     

     Winter Show Poster Design




Design Brief
For this challenge, we are inspired by topics like physicality, connectedness, shared space, and celebration. We’re looking for a strong conceptual design that communicates the ITP/IMA ethos. We would like to see the more humanistic side of our community and less wires, breadboards, and LEDs. A successful poster will offer a compelling visual in harmony with all the requisite textual information.

Inspiration
Poster design has been around for a very long time, but was made available to the mass market in the 1880s with the birth of the lithographic poster and continues to change today with new technologies. We encourage you to pay a visit to iconic posters and use them as a source of inspiration for your design.
💡 A brief history of poster design
💡 NYC Poster Museum
💡 Cooper Hewitt Poster Archive


Required Text
• ITP | IMA | LowRes
• Winter Show 2022
• A festival of the recently possible.
• A two day exhibition of creative interactive projects from NYU’s ITP, IMA & Low Res.
• For more information: https://itp.nyu.edu/show
[ create a QR Code for the URL and include it on the poster ]
• For questions: itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
• Sunday, December 18th | 2PM - 6PM
• Monday, December 19th | 4PM - 8PM
• 370 Jay Street, 2nd & 4th Floors
Brooklyn, NY 11201
• [ NYU Tisch Logo ]


Key Dates
9/29 Open submission form for poster designs
10/14 - Design Lab workshop/critique on poster designs
10/16 - Poster submissions are due by 11:59 pm
12/18 & 12/19 - Winter Show dates

Specifications
• 20 x 30 inches (2:3 aspect ratio)
• Portrait layout
• 300 DPI, RGB color (for screens)
• Save and submit as a .PDF file, but please be sure to keep your working file and all assets. If selected, you will be asked for additional files

Award
The winning designer will receive $500!
$250 is awarded as the prize, and an additional $250 as the stipend for making modifications to the design after it has been chosen.

Submit
Submit your final poster design as a PDF by October 16th at 11:59 pm using this form.

Want feedback or help?
Book office hours with the Design Lab mentors. We can help with concept sketches, type hierarchy, software, visual design... and more :)

Questions?
Reach out to Eden (erc7448@nyu.edu) or the team
(design-lab@itp.nyu.edu)


                             

Winner of 2022 Winter Show Poster Design - Andy Cabindol








location is 4th floor, 370 jay street, brooklyn
ITP / IMA
New York University 
4th Floor
370 Jay street, 11201
Brooklyn, NY
Write to us - We would love to hear your feedback 
design-lab@itp.nyu.edu