The New School Archives And Special Collections

The Parsons School of Design Illustration Department compiled this collection of approximately 175 zines, little magazines, and other illustrated limited run publications.

Five individual artists' books and three group projects created by students in artist Roni Gross's Parsons School of Design letterpress courses.

The Master of the Arts in Liberal Arts: Architecture and Design Criticism graduate program began in 1986 and graduated its last student in 1997. The program was jointly administered by Parsons School of Design within the Environmental Design program (now the School of Constructed Environments), and the New School for Social Research’s Graduate Faculty. The collection contains eleven theses written by students who graduated between 1987 and 1995.

This record group consists of print and digital text, video, and image files documenting theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's master's program in fashion studies, situated in the School of Art and Design History and Theory.

Printed publicity materials including but not limited to circulars, mailers, promotional booklets and pamphlets, and postcards generally advertising Parsons School of Design, or a particular course or program of study not connected to a specific department. Also includes a small number of audiovisual recordings in various formats, presumably made for promotional purposes.

The Parsons School of Design Master of Arts Design Studies program was established to encourage the study of design as a transdisciplinary discipline with the goal of preparing students to become active agents of social change. The collection consists of physical and electronic files documenting the program's development and planning, and reporting on its progress, as well as syllabi and video recordings of a 2014 symposium.

The Parsons School of Design Master of Arts (MA) Design Studies program was launched in 2012 with the aim of exploring design as "a field of scholarly research and an agent of social change." The program became a minor in 2018. This collection contains student theses from 2014-2020, representing all graduating classes in the program's history as a major, and its first two years as a minor.

This record group consists of text files of theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's MA program in History of Design and Curatorial Studies.

This record group consists of text, video, and audio files documenting theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's MFA program in Design and Technology.

This record group consists of analog, print theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's master's program in industrial design, situated within the School of Constructed Environments.