Careers
Furniture designers balance aesthetic and conceptual concerns with practical and functional requirements to create large-scale objects and furnishings society uses to organize and enhance its environments.
- Contract or residential furniture designer
- Hospitality furniture designer
- Design consultant
- Design manager
- Environmental designer
- Studio artist
- Exhibition designer
- Fixture designer
- Hospitality furniture designer
- Instructor/professor
- Lighting designer
- Limited-production furniture designer
- Mass-production furniture designer
- Packaging designer
- Product designer
- Project director
- Soft goods designer
- Staff designer
SCAD graduates are in demand at the United States' most recognized companies. Each year, more than 175 companies and organizations visit SCAD to meet and recruit our students and alumni. More than eight out of 10 SCAD 2008 alumni surveyed had been placed in jobs in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Some employers of SCAD furniture design alumni
- ADD Inc.
- Bernhardt
- Corporate Interiors
- Dakota Jackson
- David Edward
- Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
- Illuminations
- MOEN
- Palmer Johnson
- Paoli Inc.
- Pennsylvania State University
- Prop Art Ltd.
- Scott Snyder Inc.
- Studio Z Design Concepts
- Tellus Furniture
- Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
- University of Florida
- Wendell Castle Studio
Contact Furniture Design
- furniture@scad.edu
- admission@scad.edu
- Hong Kong/Savannah/eLearning: 800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100
- Atlanta: 877.722.3285 or 404.253.2700
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Events
- Winter Quarter Begins
Jan. 04, 2010
News
- Sep. 17, 2009
Furniture designs at N.Y. Design Center - Jun. 30, 2009
Furniture design at NeoCon Worlds Trade Fair - May. 22, 2009
SCAD wins Best Furniture Design Program award - May. 12, 2009
Furniture sculptures at scholarship auction
Recognition
- Exhibitus hires Megan Ashley
- Cliff Young hires Lee as furniture designer
- Marrs' pieces in design competition
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