Three Interior Design students earn spots in Metropolis Future100 Class of 2024

Three Interior Design students earn spots in Metropolis Future100 Class of 2024

  Metropolis Magazine publishes its Future100 list each year, designating 50 interior design and 50 architecture students as the best emerging designers in North America. Students on the Future100 list are connected directly to top architecture and design firms as companies scout the best and brightest talent. Since 2021, Marymount University has had three students […]

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Interior Design

These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn’t been shaken up by the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology—and interior design is no exception. With new AI design platforms popping up seemingly overnight, interior designers who want to remain relevant and competitive in their fields must learn to work with these tools rather than against them. So, what are […]

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Inaugural Keegan Lecture in Interior Design spotlights AI advancements

Inaugural Keegan Lecture in Interior Design spotlights AI advancements

  Marymount University’s Interior Architecture + Design program recently hosted the inaugural Dana Keegan & Martha Child Lecture Series event in response to the rapidly evolving landscape of AI technologies and their integration into various professions. Held on February 28 in the Ballston Center auditorium, it aimed to foster increased knowledge and insightful discussions surrounding […]

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Interior Design alumna named 2023 ‘Ones to Watch’ award winner

Interior Design alumna named 2023 ‘Ones to Watch’ award winner

  Cathleen Gruver, an award-winning interior designer and 2015 graduate of Marymount University’s Interior Design master’s program, has been named a 2023 ‘Ones to Watch’ award winner by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). ASID’s ‘Ones to Watch’ program identifies and recognizes rising leaders in the interior design industry who demonstrate exceptional leadership potential […]

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Marymount’s Future100 Interior Design winner inspired to create ‘unique spaces that change a person’s life’

Marymount’s Future100 Interior Design winner inspired to create ‘unique spaces that change a person’s life’

  For the third year in a row, an Interior Design student at Marymount University has been named as a Future100 Interior Design winner by Metropolis Magazine, which honors the most talented students at the best interior design and architecture schools in the U.S. and Canada each year. Natalia Laykov, a senior at Marymount, was […]

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Interior Design alumna launches first book, “Design for Identity”

Interior Design alumna launches first book, “Design for Identity”

  This month, Marymount University Interior Design alumna Jessica Bantom launched her first book, ‘Design for Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse World,’ with the aim of offering leaders a change management roadmap. “Design is expression, a service, an act of creativity,” Bantom argues. “But if designers design for everyone, how can there […]

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Designers speak to MU students for Global Entrepreneurship Week

Designers speak to MU students for Global Entrepreneurship Week

  Last week, Marymount University’s College of Business, Innovation, Leadership and Technology (BILT) joined over 20,000 organizations worldwide in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week, which through various lectures and seminars is utilized to help entrepreneurs transform their ideas into tangible action. To mark this occasion, the College of BILT hosted two renowned design entrepreneurs, Jomo Tariku […]

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MU Interior Design student awarded $10,000 scholarship

Interior Design student Emma Naing

  When Marymount University senior Emma Naing was selected in July to receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Network of Executive Women In Hospitality’s (NEWH) Washington, D.C., Metropolitan chapter, she felt both excitement and relief. After an application process that required a personal essay, recommendation letters and an in-person interview with the scholarship committee, Naing […]

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New curriculum agreement between MU, Florence University of the Arts

New curriculum agreement between MU, Florence University of the Arts

  Earlier this month, Marymount University signed an agreement with Florence University of the Arts – The American University of Florence (FUA-AUF) that will result in new, exceptional educational opportunities for students in Marymount’s School of Design and Art to study in Florence, Italy. Haute Couture was born in Florence, and the city is home […]

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Marymount Interior Design student named to Metropolis Future100 List

Viviane Pedruco

  For 18 years, Viviane Pedruco was a professional helicopter pilot in her native country of Brazil, following in her family’s footsteps through a career in aviation. But with a determined career change to pursue her longtime dream, she moved to the U.S. and enrolled in Marymount University’s Interior Design M.A. program – and is […]

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