Thursday evening the Oregon State University Graphic Design program showed off its new offices and collaboration space with an open house, inviting the OSU community to see the new area it hopes will facilitate more great work from students.
Located in the ground floor of Milam Hall, the new area houses offices for graphic design faculty, a front lounge area and an open meeting room for students.
The meeting area doesn’t have tables and chairs but moveable, stackable blocks that can be rearranged in any format a project requires. Eventually the space will also have whiteboards and flatpanel screens.
“They can bring their laptops, plug into the screens,” said associate professor Andrea Marks. “It’s a place they can kind of call their own, where they don’t have to have teachers around.”
Michael McDonald, a junior in graphic design, was already breaking the space in Thursday evening, handing out blocks to students as they entered.
“It’s a place we can all gather and use as a think tank and for projects with all these resources,” McDonald said.
A nice location, looks perfect for graphic designer indeed.