Schools Showcase

Launched in 2022, the Schools Showcase at WantedDesign Manhattan serves as a great opportunity for international design schools to present the work of their best students for them to be part of the main design trade event during NYCxDESIGN, receive feedback from professionals and start building their network.

It is as well a space for international design schools to recruit students and to connect with an international schools network to create partnerships and potential exchange programs.

Participating schools for 2023 included: CEDIM, Central Saint Martins, Cranbrook Academy of Art, École Boulle, IED, University of Iowa, Northumbria University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, RISD, SAIC, SCAD, Tec Monterrey, and Universidad Iberoamericana.

The Best of Schools and Students Prize awards is presented with media partner Design Milk and sponsored by Alessi.

Best of Schools 2023: Northumbria University
Best of Students 2023: Universidad Iberoamericana

Schools Show 2023 | Jenna Bascom Photography

CEDIM

Located in Monterrey and Mexico City, CEDIM's campus was designed as a way to naturally expand and inspire students creativity. Their labs, work stations and classrooms are no exception. This school's flexible and stimulating areas allow teamwork to flourish within our students.

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Central Saint Martins

Central Saint Martins is alive with different ways of thinking, making and doing. Across art, design and performance, Central Saint Martins' students create ideas, materials and actions for a better future. The University is in the top two of the QS rankings for art and design.

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Cranbrook Academy of Art

Cranbrook Academy of Art is America’s top-ranked, graduate-only program in architecture, design, and fine art. Each year, just 75 students are invited to study and live on their landmark Saarinen-designed campus, which features private studios, state-of-the-art workshops, a renowned Art Museum, and 300 acres of forests, lakes, and streams, all a short drive from the red-hot art, design, and music scene of Detroit.

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École Boulle

The Boulle school was born in 1886 and remains today one of the largest schools of art and design in Europe. The school was founded on rue de Reuilly in 1886, in the heart of the historic district of the furnishing trades, near the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris.

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IED Istituto Europeo di Design

Istituto Europeo di Design is an international network of design schools with 12 branches in Italy, Spain, and Brazil. Since its foundation in Italy in 1966, IED has been operating in the fields of education and research in the disciplines of design, fashion, visual communication, and management, welcoming every year more than 10.000 students from all over the world.

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University of Iowa

Founded in 1847, it is the state's oldest institution of higher education and is located alongside the picturesque Iowa River in Iowa City. A member of the Association of American Universities since 1909 and the Big Ten Conference since 1899, the University of Iowa is home to one of the most acclaimed academic medical centers in the country, as well as globally recognized leadership in the study and craft of writing. Iowa is known for excellence in both the arts and sciences, offering world-class undergraduate, graduate, and professional academic programs in a wide variety of fields.

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Northumbria University

Northumbria is a research-intensive, modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence. It was named UK University of the Year 2022 in the Times Higher Education Awards.

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Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design at The New School enables students to develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in and contribute to our rapidly changing society. Students collaborate with peers throughout The New School, industry partners, and communities around the world and in New York City, a global center of art, design, and business. Parsons' unique approach to interdisciplinary, real-world learning is interwoven throughout all of our offerings, from undergraduate and graduate degrees to executive education for professionals to continuing and pre-college courses taught on campus and online.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. What started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty. 135 years in the making, this is Pratt.

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RISD Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of Rhode Island School of Design, through its college and museum, is to educate its students and the public in the creation and appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to make lasting contributions to a global society through critical thinking, scholarship and innovation.

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SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Since its founding in 1866, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. With a fine arts graduate program ranking among the top programs in the United States by U.S. News and World Report, the School provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design.

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SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design

Located in Savannah, USA and offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university, SCAD is uniquely qualified to prepare talented students for professional, creative careers.

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Tec Monterrey

In the School of Architecture, Art and Design, EAAD of the Tec de Monterrey, we create worlds that welcome and flourish diversity, enable trust, harmony and make a desirable and lasting future for everyone. We are the territory turned transformative impulse; reflection that projects and materializes value. We are creative leadership that generates community.

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Ibero

Ibero is recognized as one of the best private universities in Mexico. IberoDiseño was the first Design School in Mexico City, with over 7000 alumni working for the creative industries. Product Design, Transmedia Storytelling Design, Sustainable Design for Fashion and Textiles and Sensory Design are its current programs.

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