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2025 Design Career Fair

Feb 28, 2025, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

The 2025 Design Career Fair returns to the Gatton Student Center on Friday, February 28 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The annual event, to be held in the student center's Grand Ballroom and Social Staircase area, marks the seventh career fair for the College of Design, and the third in partnership with the Department of Landscape Architecture.

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Employers: Register for the 2025 Design Career Fair

Haley Simpkins Dec 12, 2024

Employer registration is open for the University of Kentucky's 

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Pattern + Surface + Skin - Spring 2025 Elective

Dec 6, 2024

Nature serves as an inspiration for many architects who translate its qualities through organizational strategies, biomimicry, evolutionary modeling, and patterns to name a few. In this course students will conduct research through a series of precedent studies where nature serves as an inspiration for the design. After these initial explorations, students will take what was learned collectively and apply this knowledge to research exploring “species or natural occurring systems native to the state of Kentucky.” 

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CoD hosts alums for “Successful Careers in Design” speaker series

Haley Simpkins Dec 6, 2024

Earlier this week the College of Design’s sections of UK 101 and UK 201 welcomed four alumni to share their professional journey with students in a lunch-and-learn-style speaker series titled “Successful Careers in Design”.   UK 101 and UK 201 courses are designed to be an introductory course for first year and transfer students, focused on skill building, finding community and career exploration. In college-specific sections of the course, instructors have the discretion to add content tailored to majors, career interests and student requests.

Installed in the Gray Design Building’s Maker Yard, “Falling Color” is a vibrant homage to the concealed creek running underfoot and the historical layers of Lexington that lie beneath the surface. Photo by Haley Simpkins.

UK College of Design, College of Fine Arts art installation pays tribute to campus landscape

Haley Simpkins Nov 21, 2024

The University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts and University of Kentucky College of Design have joined forces to unveil “Falling Color.” Installed in the Gray Design Building’s Maker Yard, “Falling Color” is a vibrant homage to the concealed creek running underfoot and the historical layers of Lexington that lie beneath the surface.

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CoD Faculty and Staff Awarded Two UK Sustainability Challenge Grants

Haley Simpkins Nov 20, 2024

Now in its tenth year, the Sustainability Challenge Grants (SCG) program supports the development of scholarly, creative and research projects that promote sustainability, engage students and advance academic disciplines. The program also strives to enhance economic vitality, uphold ecological integrity and foster social equity. This year, design faculty and staff are part of two of the five projects awarded an SCG.  

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The way to UK: Interiors student trades rainforest for Bluegrass

Haley Simpkins Nov 19, 2024

Since eighth grade, Dana Thalman has dreamed of attending college outside of her home country of Costa Rica. Five years later, that dream became a reality for Thalman, who is now a first-year interior design student in the University of Kentucky College of Design. 

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On Seeing and Being - Spring 2025 Elective

Nov 19, 2024

The ways we see (or are taught to see) the world are inseparable from the ways we choose to live in it. Acting upon this proposition, this course examines how we produce and represent the built environment through media, science, and technology, specifically through techniques such as perspectival drawing, measuring, photography, and satellite-imaging. 

The group poses on a panoramic terrace in Venice.

Designing Memories: UK Students Find Their 'Camelot' in Italy

Haley Simpkins Nov 15, 2024

This past summer, students from the University of Kentucky's College of Design participated in a transformative education abroad experience in Florence, Italy. Led by Mark O'Bryan, an associate professor in the School of Architecture, the program offered students the chance to explore Italian architecture, history and culture firsthand.  

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American City and Planning History - Spring 2025 Elective

Nov 13, 2024

America's cities have been shaped by an incredibly diverse array of planning philosophies. From early Native American communities, and colonies that followed European planning ideals, to railroad towns, company towns, Utopian settlements and suburbia, America's planning history is surprisingly rich. 

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