Thesis Projects
The repository for past design thesis papers completed 2014 to now can be found here.
Alumni
Richard Hunt, MDES (York U) 2007
- Current: Associate Professor, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Deb Lau-Yu, MDES (York U), 2008
- Current: Co-Founder, Art Director & Principal, PALETTERA Custom Correspondences; Editor-in-Chief at Fête Chinoise Magazine; VP Brand, The Ferris Wheel Press, Markham, Canada
Renee Lung, MDES (York U), 2008
- Current: Software Engineer, PagerDuty, San Francisco, USA
Brian Banton, MDES (York U) 2010
- Current: Creative Director, Creative Studio SAP, Toronto, Canada
Karen Kwan, MDES (York U) 2010
- Current: Learning and Design Consultant, BMO Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Canada
Oleg Portnoy, MDES (York U) 2010
- Current: Design Director, Pound & Grain, Toronto, Canada
Brad Tober, MDES (York U) 2011
- Current: Director of Product Design, Publicis Groupe, Boston, USA
Kevin Paolozzi, MDES (York U) 2011
- Current: Associate Partner, IBM Consulting, Austin, USA
Hyuna Park, MDES (York U) 2011
- Current: Assistant Professor, Texas State University, Texas, USA
Bianca DiPietro, MDES (York U) 2011
- Current: HelloFresh, Creative Lead, Hamilton, Canada
Kaila Jacques, MDES (York U) 2012
- Current: Creative Director, Briteweb, Toronto, Canada
James March, MDES (York U) 2012
- Current: Professor, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
Franziska Erlebach, MDES (York U) 2013
- Current: Design Director, Ogilvy, Toronto, Canada
Michael Fan, MDES (York U) 2014
- Current: Digital Production Designer, The Ontario Cabinet Office, Toronto, Canada
Marie-Noëlle Hébert, MDES (York U) 2014
- Current: Designer, LOKI, Montreal, Canada
Saskia van Kampen, MDES (York U) 2014
- Current: Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Nancy Snow, MDES (York U) 2014
- Current: Associate Professor, Graphic Design Program Chair, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Malika Soin, MDES (York U) 2014
- Current: Creative Director, Purpose Investments, Toronto, Canada
Philippe Jean, MDES (York U) 2015
- Current: Senior Product Designer, Shopify, Vancouver, Canada
Francis Benoit, MDES (York U) 2017
- Current: Product Designer, GSoft, Montreal, Canada
Aala Sharfi, MDES (York U) 2019
- Current: Designer, BOND, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Frank Zhang, MDES (York U) 2019
- Current: Creative Director, Spectra Art and Design, Toronto
Lucy Bilson, MDES (York U) 2020
- Current: Doctoral Student Critical Studies in Improvisation Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Helen Yaqing Han, MDES (York U) 2020
- Current: Doctoral Student Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto, Canada