With the power of 3D scanning and printing, the world is your oyster. You can even have a mini you! Join us to create a mini bust of yourself! It makes a great gift or desk decoration. Participants will be taught how to operate a 3D scanner to create printable 3D scans of one another, process the scans, and send them to be printed at the HVAMC. Prints will be available for pickup at the DDF Alumni Panel or HVAMC after Design Week. 

 All are welcome! No experience required.

Workshop Leader: Marissa Borone 

Marissa is a student in the MA in Digital Design and Fabrication. They completed their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Art at the New York Institute of Technology. 

Come explore the beautiful lead type in Old Library, learn about letterpress printing, and leave with your own typeset and handprinted poster take-away!

Workshop Leader: Professor Anne Galperin

Anne Galperin is the Chair of the Department of Design at SUNY New Paltz and avid letterpress enthusiast who has been working with a small but might group of students to build the OLB Letterpress studio.

Join Design Society for Bookbinding! At this workshop, members of the Design Society Student Club will teach the basics of bookbinding through sewing methods and with staples!  Feel free to bring your own collage materials or other medias for your booklet.

No experience required!

In this workshop participants will explore the potential of 3D printing through creating custom G-code through Rhino’s parametric modeling software: Grasshopper. By generating toolpaths outside the convention of regular slicers, participants can move beyond the clean lines and precision typical of 3D printing. Without any experience or outside knowledge of grasshopper participants will be able to create droops, bumps, and other layer inconsistencies without needing to understand the concepts that make 3D printing possible.

Workshop Leader: Ike Lobel

Ike is a graduate student in the Digital Design and Fabrication program. Ike holds a BFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz.

Amid a deepening crisis of isolation and loneliness, how might art and design schools transform into spaces for experimenting with new formats for togetherness? This interdisciplinary workshop plays with movement, dialogue, writing, and group artmaking in order to prototype tools for connection, collaboration, and co-creation. It involves a mix of individual and group work, as modes for students and faculty to connect with themselves and others. Through these encounters, DOT seeks to seed a creative community for practicing new methods of learning and collective healing.

Workshop Lead: Prem Krishnamurthy

Prem Krishnamurthy has directed design studios, established galleries and institutions, curated large-scale international exhibitions, and taught widely. He received the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s “A Year With” fellowship in 2018. In 2019, Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies acquired his professional papers. His books include P!DF (2017–2020), On Letters (2022), and Past Words (2024), an anthology of his writing and experimental curatorial projects. In 2022, Krishnamurthy founded Department of Transformation, an artist-organized group that prototypes new methods for togetherness, learning, and collective healing.

The Sustainability Community Inspiration Map Design Workshop is a two-hour, hands-on session led by Olivia Wilson (SUNY New Paltz Alum) and Joshua Korenblat (Associate Professor, Graphic Design) in Old Library 103B. Participants will gain hands-on experience in sustainability research, design thinking, and open-access collaboration while contributing to a real educational platform that connects our creativity with community.

Using UX design principles, participants will help develop ideas for the Community Inspiration Map that could become part of Earthrise Commons, a SUNY grant-funded open education project that includes an upcoming book and platform for remixable Creative Commons teaching material. 

Participants will research campus sustainability initiatives, compare them with SUNY’s goals, and explore solutions and responses from other schools. Their findings, reports, and reflections can be credited and featured on the Earthrise Commons platform. 

In the second half, we will do a UX design sprint, choosing between journey maps, storyboards, and wireframes to envision how educators and learners might use the map. 

Workshop Leaders:

Joshua Korenblat, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, SUNY New Paltz

Olivia Wilson, BFA Graphic Design, SUNY New Paltz 2025