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LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio to help develop Master Plan for Baton Roots Community Farm

With recent support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio will partner with the nonprofit organization The Walls Project to develop a master plan for Baton Roots Community Farm, which…

Letter From the Director of the School of Interior Design

Dear School of Interior Design community, As we head into the summer months, let’s take time to acknowledge all persons of color who continue to be impacted by systemic racism and reflect on our…

Alumni Spotlight: Blaire Brown Stroemple

Blaire Brown Stroemple, HSS & AD 2011, combined her love of art with an entrepreneurial spirit to launch Box of Art, a business that brings people together to make art while socially distancing – in…

Interface Graphic Design Senior Exhibition

2020 LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction honoree Lewis May

Lewis May, one of America’s leading planners, urban designers, and landscape architects, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture at LSU, and his five-decade career has earned him nearly 200 international awards of…

Art & Design 2020 LSU Distinguished Communicators

During the May 2020 graduation celebration, eight College of Art & Design graduates received the LSU Distinguished Communicator Medal. LSU Communication across the Curriculum, or CxC honored 44 graduates across six colleges with the medal in 2020….

BFA Student Designs Hearts From Home

BFA student Brynn Finney, graphic design concentration, is using art to contribute to the Baton Rouge community in an unexpected way. In the midst of stay-at-home orders and social distancing, the Arts Council of…

LSU Design Faculty Create Face Shields to Combat COVID-19

In response to the global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LSU faculty, staff, and students are joining the worldwide effort to create PPE to donate to those in…

LSU Interior Design Students Thank Louisiana Healthcare Workers

The LSU School of Interior Design works with Louisiana healthcare facilities regularly, as part of the healthcare design curriculum in which students design facility improvements for local hospitals, partnering with the staff there to…

Lake Douglas Receives Faculty Award for Outstanding Communication

Lake Douglas, the LSU College of Art & Design’s associate dean of research and development and professor of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, has been awarded the 2020 Faculty Award for Outstanding…

Novel Coronavirus Updates

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LSU Graphic Designers Win ADDY Awards at District Level

Each year, the American Advertising Awards, also known as the ADDYs, the advertising industry’s largest competition, recognizes some of the best creative work in the country. The Baton Rouge American Advertising Federation annually recognizes…

Virtual Frictions

The Virtual Frictions workshop and symposium addressing architectural fabrication was held February 13-15, 2020 at the LSU School of Architecture.

LSU Graphic Design Grad Creates Hot Sauce Brand

BFA alum Scott Bellina started Bayou Gotham hot sauces. Read more

Getting into Shape: Using 3-D Printing Technology to Create Interlocking Blocks of Concrete

Niloufar Emami, assistant professor of architecture and holder of the A. Hays Town Professorship, has received the 2020 ARCC Research Incentive Award from the Architectural Research Centers Consortium for a research project on how…

Design Students Learn Community Firsthand with Hospital Project

By: LSU interior design instructor Andrew Baqué Read more

Educating About Landscape Architecture

Professor Bruce Sharky and students are working to spread the word about how landscape architects affect significant change in the world. Today’s landscape architect tackles everything from large-scale environmental issues like disaster recovery and stormwater management…

LSU Digital Art Students Win Awards at World’s Largest Student-Led Game Design Competition

Nearly two dozen LSU students participated in the world’s largest student-led game design competition, Chillennium, hosted by Texas A&M University in October 2019. Competitors planned, designed and developed a video game within 48 hours,…

Students Gain Real World Experience Through Design Externships

Off-campus internships (“externships”) are a significant component to the interior design curriculum, in which undergraduate students can experience the pace of working at design firms in their chosen fields. In the fall 2019 semester…