The Alberini Family Speaker Series is supported through
an endowment by the Carlos and Andrea Alberini Family Foundation.
It brings renowned innovators and thinkers in design to campus
and in virtual formats to inspire students and encourage
community engagement and learning.
Design graduate student Latrell Broughton, a native
of Beaufort County, NC, is creating an interactive
mural for students at P. S. Jones Middle School in
Washington, NC; which he attended growing up.
The UC Davis Eco Materials Library and CoSEP have partnered with Autodesk and
California College of the Arts on the Pioneering Biomaterials
exhibition. Eco material samples made by Professor Beth Ferguson,
Assistant Professor Akshita Sivakumar, graduate student Diego
Martinez Fernandez del Castillo, and alumni Eldy Lázaro and
Alejandra Ruiz will be on display at the CCA Campus
Gallery until Feb. 14.
Professor Timothy J. McNeil was among the winners at the
2024 SEGD Global Design Awards Ceremony recently held in Dallas.
McNeil received a Merit Award for his book The
Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook.
An engaging exhibition, which brings together visual journals
belonging to students who participated in the UC Davis Design
study abroad program, opens on Jan. 21 at the UC Davis Design
Museum. “Visual Journals: 2010-2024” is a partnership between the
UC Davis Department of Design and Global Affairs. The
installation runs through April 25.
Design Professor Gozde Goncu-Berk offers an online public talk as
part of the Dean’s Faculty Fellows Public Talk Series.
Goncu-Berk’s presentation, “Empowering Health and Wellbeing:
Transdisciplinary Design in Wearable Technology,” is April 10 at
4 p.m. (PDT).
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
The UC Davis Fashion and Design Society (FADS) will present
“Through the Looking Glass,” the 2025 Picnic Day Fashion Show, on
April 12. The event will spotlight fashion created and executed
by the Department of Design undergraduate students in the
“Signature Collection” course.
Rachel Berger, a
designer whose background includes writing, architecture,
technology, cities, politics, identity and fiber, will give a
presentation as part of the Department of Design’s Research in
Design Speaker Series. Her talk, “Current Events, Reading
and Writing, Architecture, Technology, Cities, Politics,
Identity, and Fiber,” is April 18, 12- p.m. in Cruess Hall
Room 1105. The event is free and open to the public.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Community Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Dylan Mulder is an
award-winning industrial designer, lecturer, consultant, and
digital fabrication expert whose work encompasses product design,
feature films, and wearable technology. Mulder will give a talk
titled “Weaving Heritage and High Tech: From Wearables to Movie
Magic” for the UC Davis Department of Design’s Alberini
Family Speaker Series in Design.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
