With the help of many of America’s leading art and design schools, we once again identify top students ready to burst on the design scene. Some are undergrads, others are graduate or continuing education students, all have found personal and professional growth through their programs.
Our Students To Watch feature has become tradition that resonates and renews: the students get recognized and the professional creative community gets refreshed.
As you will see, we focus on the good and great traditional design schools and keep casting our net wide to include wonderful public universities, innovative online and certificate programs, and more. In the next edition of GDUSA magazine, selected institutions of higher learning from which these students come will themselves get the spotlight.
The Editors thoughts, should you be interested, appear here.
STUDENTS TO WATCH 2025
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- Charlie Anderson
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (SCAD) - Kyla Krahn
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (SCAD) - Zach Jacobsen
ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY - Vicki Vincent
ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY - Jayden Badillo
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - Avery Frost
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - Alex Cieslinski
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - Bryce Patterson
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - Emelia Knarr
FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY - Sean Matthew Prayuda
FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY - Robert Gleason
AUBURN UNIVERSITY - Caroline Webster
AUBURN UNIVERSITY - Skye Armstrong
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - Thanh Tran
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - Christina Ukolov
PRATT INSTITUTE - Vera Soberg
PRATT MUNSON COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - Nanoka Umehara
PRATT MUNSON COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - Carter Rice
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Yimei Tang
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Jewell Melisa T. Morton
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS (VCFA) - Tim Murray
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS (VCFA) - Fernando Del Rosario
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS (VCFA) - Maria Dierkes
DREXEL UNIVERSITY - Nicholas Evangelinos
DREXEL UNIVERSITY - Audrey Pumphrey
UCO SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Emma Thompson
UCO SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Madelyn Arnold
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY - Ashley Cai
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD) - Tina Zhou
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD) - Breanna Thomas-McDuffie
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY - Rachel Baker
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY - Taylor Rector
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY - Cwen Freeman
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY - Angelina Vizuete
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY - Lauren Aber
KEAN UNIVERSITY, ROBERT BUSCH SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Stacey Polynice
KEAN UNIVERSITY, ROBERT BUSCH SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Riley Kaufman
VIRGINIA TECH - Lauren Sartori
VIRGINIA TECH - Halle Angell
HARTFORD ART SCHOOL - Sandy Le
HARTFORD ART SCHOOL - Gracen Bohling
MERCER UNIVERSITY - Abby Milam
MERCER UNIVERSITY - Adam Chen
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS (SVA) - Cecilia Mol
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS (SVA) - Joscelyn Lindsey
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE (KCAI) - Katelynn Stevens
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE (KCAI) - Zack Gibson
ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN - Malina Mikami
ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN - Logan Byer
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (PCA&D) - Matthew Dornan
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (PCA&D) - Olivia Weissflog
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Drithi Kandoor
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Rice Gallardo
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Stefanos Dardanos
SESSIONS COLLEGE - Kelly Serio
SESSIONS COLLEGE - Megan Mersch
NC STATE COLLEGE OF DESIGN - Rebecca Planchart
NC STATE COLLEGE OF DESIGN - Kate Aren
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES (CCS) - Martina Lasku
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES (CCS) - Lily Nguyen
THE COOPER UNION - Tyler Hausser
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY - Aaliyah May
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY - Jacey Wieter
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - Reese Yarbrough
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - Rachel Blow
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS - Kyla Brown
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS - Laura Patino
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI - Skylar Huster
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI - Nova Ostermann
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI - Ita Kim
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SI NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS - River Taylor
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SI NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS - Lamaur Benjamin
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY - Ugochukwu Eluchie
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY - Grace Gabriel
THE MODERN COLLEGE OF DESIGN - Ian Wiant
THE MODERN COLLEGE OF DESIGN - Amy Selstad
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Jane Zhang
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Ava Lagundino
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY - Joshua Quizon
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY - Viktoriia Leonenko
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY - Luke Miller
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY - Mateo Garcia
USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN - Mankun Guo
USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN - Kyra McKay
UIC SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Nahid Yahyaee
UIC SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Caitlin Lu
BOSTON UNIVERSITY - Kate Ragosta
BOSTON UNIVERSITY - Alex Graser
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (FIT) - Hye Na Ro
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (FIT) - Katherine Pena
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - Miles Skonberg
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - Cindy Raspiller
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY - Frida Muro Rodriguez
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY - Marissa Raybuck
TYLER SCHOOL OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE - Cameron Specht
TYLER SCHOOL OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE - Isaac Carter
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO - Luis Angel Gomez
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO - Chanel Christy
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY - Jonãi Sheppard
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY - Brianna Bowman
MIAMI AD SCHOOL - Essence Lowe
MIAMI AD SCHOOL - Dylan Raymond
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY - Molly McGuire
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY - Flor Buitrago
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Marie Chacon
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Gianna Guzman
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Alyssa Infante
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Fruzsina Papp
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
- Charlie Anderson
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