The Many Personalities of MiD

Why the jumping photos?

Photographer Philippe Halsman made the jumping portrait famous. According to the Smithsonian's Retrospective Exhibition of his work:

Halsman claimed the jumps revealed character that was otherwise hidden. 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears."

Explore the MiD students in their soon-to-be-famous jumping photos and you'll begin to see the real personalities behind the creative designs here at MiD.

Sara Hall

B. Architecture

"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."-R. Buckminster Fuller

Nicolas Coia

B.S. Marketing & Entrepreneurship

The role of the designer is changing, we need to grab hold of the future and guide it in a greener, more efficient and user-friendly fashion.

Wan Ting Chang

B.S. Computer Science & Engineering

"God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Danny Chang

B.S. Psychology

I am capable of looking at a problem in a large scope and dissecting it in detail.

Natasha Sapershteyn

B.F.A. Painting

Josh Chadwick

B.F.A. Industrial Design, A.A. Graphic Design

“The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool." -Douglas Adams

Alaina Pineda

B.A. Art History

Matthew Van Der Tuyn

BFA, Graphic Design

be the roots not the tree...

Woody

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mathematics, M.S. Mechanical Engineering

confusion could lead us to a new realism

Giacomo Ciminello

B.F.A. Graphic Design

I believe no matter how random something may appear, there's still a plan. -Col. Hannibal Smith

Michael Barakat

B.F.A. 2005 - Film and Animation

If something is easy then you're probably missing the point.

Benjamin Farahmand

BS Aerospace Engineering; BA Philosophy

I believe the ultimate goal of design is to empathize.

Holly Betz

BLA - Landscape Architecture

My passion for design stems from the need to improve the world through informed decision-making and designing.

Mike Smith

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Sherika Wynter

B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." - Luke 12:48

Andy Grossman

B.A. Modern Philosophy

I aim to improve the quality of our everyday lives with analytical problem solving and sensitivity to aesthetics.

Donovan Preddy

B.F.A - Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

I decided to reinvent myself by leaving my ornamentally-based past for a more functionally-based future in Industrial Design.

Kristin Freese

B.A. Interior Design

Design now exists less to shape objects than to produce solutions.

Georgia Guthrie

B.A. History of Art

My decision to pursue Industrial Design came with the realization that I have been a maker, builder and doer my whole life.

Dominic Prestifilippo

BS. Aerospace Engineering

For me, design is perpetual and I see all of my experiences through it.

Jacob Wells

B.F.A. Printmaking

"I'm Jake Wells . . ."

Matt Miller

B.A. Visual Communication

Keynote is my new fav.