Karen Kramer '03, is finishing her film Limulus that is a weird tale and centers around the accidental collision of two objects with a strange and ancient animal, the horseshoe crab.

Veronica Menendez, BFA FAshion Design '09, and Chris Choi, MFA Design and Tech '11 have started a reverse graffiti clean art project. They want to engage artists, brands, and passerby's to be a part of a Global Clean Art Movement. 

Patrick Robinson, Fashion Design '89, is using Kickstarter to launch his first men's and women’s collection which includes lounge, active wear and urban clothes geared toward the athlete. Featured on The New York Times

Recent photography alumna Marisa Schwartz is working in Ghana to bring real stories happening in Africa to a wider public audience. Loud Silence produces intense, moving stories on a range of issues, mostly human-interest based.

Parsons MFA Transdisciplinary Design alumni Bland Hoke and Howard Chambers are launching a pilot program for their thesis, Softwalks, which transforms construction scaffolding into spaces of urban respite. The project recently won a Fast Company Design and Innovation Award.

Alfred Zollinger, Director of Parsons Design Workshop, is launching a new project - 'Peace & Quiet' which is a temporary dialogue station where veterans and civilian can openly engage each other in meaningful conversation.

Parsons alumnus and faculty Leif Percifield's new project Visualight is a Wi-Fi enabled light bulb that can display data as colored light. By representing information as colored light, a simple change in your ambient environment brings new information to your awareness.

Parsons Product Design alumna Ingrid Zweifel, Leighann Tucker, Chelsea Brigante, and Monica Bhatia's project to create edible cups that are biodegradable and vegan.

Plant-In City is a modular, sculptural structure designed by Parsons faculty member Jon Schramm. This art installation features an interactive architecture for plants that translates their environmental data into sounds of an imaginary wilderness.

Parsons alumna Paola Guimeran is part of a project that will create an open-source electronics platform that will be powerful, modular and compact!

Oscar Rivera, a sophomore at Parsons is working with Broken Doll Productions, a Youth Theatre project in Brooklyn that seeks to foster a sense of social justice and action among its players and the community.

Parsons photography alumna, Natalie Gruppuso has created Love and Equality: The Faces of Same Sex Marriage as an exhibit that shows the domestic lives of same-sex couples. The work will also be published as a book.

Parsons MFA Design and Technology alumnus, Dan Provost, launched an iPhone accessory that became a runaway hit on Kickstarter, demonstrating the power of this online community to help make projects a reality.

Parsons Design & Technology alumnus and faculty member Joe Saavedra, is helping to develop the Air Quality Egg, a community-led air quality sensing network that gives people a way to participate in the conversation about and effort to improve air quality.

Alice Arnold, a Parsons integrated design faculty member, has created ELECTRIC SIGNS. This documentary examines how TV-style advertising in the public domain are re-shaping urban environments and re-defining areas of public space by the commercialization of the public sphere.

Recent Parsons illustration graduate Julie Pinzure runs Mokuyobi Threads. For the fall season she has developed The Bedford Bag that can be worn as a backpack, thrown over the shoulder or carried as a tote.

Developed in an Algorithmic Animation course in the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons, Andy Wallace's Doodle Defense combines the art of drawing with the latest technologies for an innovative gaming experience.

Ray Masaki, a Parsons student, currently working towards his BFA in Illustration, has created Lowdtown, a t-shirt line featuring hand drawn designs.

The Design Workshop, a group of graduate architecture students from Parsons School of Design are created a new pool pavilion for the Washington Heights Community to keep the recreation center open for indoor play year round!

Parsons faculty Yury Gitman and Joel Murphy's new project “Pulse Sensor” is a well-designed plug-and-play heart-rate sensor. It can be used by students, artists, athletes, and makers who want to easily incorporate live heart-rate data into their projects.

Developed during his time at Parsons The New School for Design, illustration alumnus Robert Scott's Urban Tarot Deck combines images of the urban landscape with the mysteries of tarot.

Parsons Alumnus, Dan Provost's new design project - a wide-grip stylus for touch screens. This stylus will help designers use their touch pads for sketching and doodling.

Parsons faculty, Zach Lieberman's is creating a new collection of original TEMPT1 artwork and merchandise using the EyeWriter 2.0 software, robotic technology, traditional print-making techniques, as well as his community of friends, fans and peers.

Chapel for the Betrayed is an installation piece that commemorates the deaths that would result from the proposed anti-homosexuality legislation under consideration in Uganda. It is an project created by Parsons Associate Dean for Civic Engagement, designer Tony Whitfield.

Students from the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons collaborated with the MTA on a public art installation in the Union Square subway station.

Parsons alumna Karen Gehres is directing Astor Barber All Stars, a documentary feature about the people that own, work at and go to Astor Place Hairstylists.

Parsons student, Sonia Scarr's senior thesis project of a cabinet that will inform viewers of how our food system works now, and of alternative actions one can take to eat a little more morally and healthily.

While earning his MFA in Design & Technology, Parsons student Philippe Ramet has created The Crystal Tray, an innovative household item that makes life a little easier through a combination of minimal design and simple hardware.