BS · undergraduate
Objects, systems and experiences that people use every day, from research and sketching through prototyping.
Objects, systems and experiences that people use every day, from research and sketching through prototyping.
Tuition is $26,400 per term plus a studio fee of $450 and a technology fee of $260. The priority application deadline for fall entry is Jan 15, 2027; the final deadline is Apr 1, 2027. Questions: admissions@workbench.example.
Selected work from this programme appears in the galleries once it is cleared for public release.
Published by the Product Design department · review date 2027-02-14. Figures on this page are single-source facts owned by Finance, Admissions and the Registrar.
Admissions
Portfolio feedback, visits and the application, with an admissions counselor.
Faculty
Co-Chair, Industrial and Spatial Design. Faculty are working designers and artists; names and portraits in this wireframe are invented.
Every day
A student and a graduate of the department, with their work, chosen afresh each day from everyone who shows work publicly. 6 of 209 students and 3 graduates show work here.
Student of the day
Product Design · Expected class of 2026
Nila is a Product Design student, expected class of 2026, working in photograph, interested in work that lives in public: streets, stations, shelves. (Placeholder statement; the student writes their own.)
Alumni of the day
Product Design · Class of 1981
Nico graduated from Product Design in 1981 and is on a second career in the same field, working in print, photograph and film. (Placeholder statement; the graduate writes their own.)
Gallery
Eight works from the department, a fresh selection every day; the full gallery and the directory have everyone.
Exhibition design: Salt and light
Wren Goudy
Type specimen: Arroyo Grotesk
Wren Goudy
Modular planter
Milo Cooper
Studio stool in ash 2
Ada Walbaum
Studio stool in ash
Nila Gill
Hand tool for left-handed makers 2
Diego Bembo
Modular planter 2
Kavya Plantin
Packaging for a small roaster
Pilar Trajan
Course of Study
In the department
Nothing scheduled in the department right now; the college calendar has everything public.
From the department's teachers and leaders
Display · Oct 5, 2026
One object, drawn, modelled and made, in six steps.
Maggie Hendrie, Dean, Division of Media and Technology