Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition!

Passepartout Duo performing onstage at the Ferst Center for the Arts

1st Place: Chromaplane

Passepartout Duo & KOMA Elektronik – Italy & Germany

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Lockruf Music playing the Mulatar onstage with Jeremy Muller at Ferst Center for the Arts

2nd Place: Mulatar

Lockruf Music – United Kingdom

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Courtney Brown performing with the Dinosaur Choir onstage at Ferst Center for the Arts

3rd Place: Dinosaur Choir: Adult Corythosaurus

Courtney Brown & Cezary Gajewski – United States

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Andrew Reid playing the 3 Axis MIDI Guitar onstage at Ferst Center for the Arts

Judges' Special Award: 3 Axis MIDI Guitar

Andrew Reid – United States

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Jacob Barton plays the Udderbot onstage at Ferst Center for the Arts

Judges' Commendation: Udderbot

Jacob Barton – United States

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Emily Koh plays her ModμMIDI onstage at Ferst Center for the Arts.

Judges' Commendation: ModμMIDI

Emily Koh et. al* – Singapore & Georgia

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Lockruf Music playing the Mulatar onstage with Jeremy Muller at Ferst Center for the Arts

People's Choice: Mulatar

Lockruf Music – United Kingdom

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Announcing the Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics

The Babel Table featured in the CBS Sunday Morning segment about the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
 

Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Featured on CBS Sunday Morning

Architecture students Swathi Kovvur and Shaina Lofton show Hana Kassem the "Rapunzel" bench during a campus tour.
 

Architecture Students Host Principal Designer Hana Kassam

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Congratulations, Julie Kim, for Elevation to AIA College of Fellows

The cover of Brian Stone's book "Radical Adaptation."
 

Congratulations, Brian Stone, for "Radical Adaptation" Making Planetizen's List of Top Urban Planning Books

Rounaq Basu
 

Meet Rounaq Basu, our newest Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning

Design Students to Showcase Innovative Robotics at HRI 2025

Six groups of Georgia Tech students from the School of Industrial Design are at the forefront of exploring how robotics can help build a more sustainable and socially engaging world.

Find out more!

College of Design Events

GT Symphony Orchestra

Student Ensemble: Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra Concert

Feb. 9 | 1 - 3 p.m., Ferst Center for the Arts

Juliana Neelbauer

Center for Music Technology Seminar: Juliana Neelbauer

  February 10 | 2 - 2:50 p.m., West Village 175

EQiA student group poses in the East Architecture breezeway.

School of Architecture Lecture: EQiA Forum Panel

February 13 | 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Reinsch Pierce Auditorium 

Students network with industry at a Georgia Tech career fair.

Schools of Architecture and City and Regional Planning: Career Fair

February 5 | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Exhibition Hall

Design, the Georgia Tech Way

We think it's important to understand how technology enables better design, and how to fuse that technology into buildings, products, lifestyles, cities, regions, art, and healthcare.

About the College

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Our Schools

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Support the College

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Design Research

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Majors and Degrees

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Undergraduate Programs

Our bachelor of science degrees combine creativity, collaboration, and technology.
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Shimon the robotic, improvising, and singing robot plays music with graduate students.

Graduate Programs

Our graduate students use design to solve real-world problems and develop new technologies.
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Degrees and Certificates

A full list of the College of Design degrees, minors, and certificates.
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Our Work, Our Impact

Georgia Tech Industrial Design Majors stand with Nicky Crawford, to present their design for the wash bus. On the right, a photo of Crawford doing laundry in the bus.

Industrial Design Students Partner to Create a Mobile Laundry Bus

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Access Granted: Inside the Inside the $4.3 Million Project on Employment for People with Disabilities

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Georgia Tech team presents at ULI Hines Competition.

Design Team Takes the Win at ULI Hines Competition

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Julie Kim, center, looks over architecture plans with students at a table

The Citizen Architect: Tech's Signature Approach to Architecture

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Aerial shot showing members of the Re-Wind Network stand in front of a pedestrian bridge made using decommissioned wind turbine blades

Pioneering Process Leads to Big Win for Tech Research Team

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Brian Stone

What Happens When Extreme Temperatures Meet Urban Research?

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Lisa Marks

Space Lace: Net Fishing in Low Earth Orbit

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A robot arm plays a guitar

Art and Technology Harmonize in School of Music

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Design at the College of Design

Kevin Shankwiler seated on a gold couch in front of a black wall. He is talking and gesturing, wearing a black shirt with the Georgia Tech College of Design logo.

Kevin Shankwiler: Design Creates Real-World Solutions to Human Problems

Kevin Shankwiler explains how design ties human needs, artistic creativity, and manufacturing know-how together, creating products that are useful, enjoyable, and practical.
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Gil Weinberg: Designing to Enhance Musical Experience

Gil Weinberg addresses how students and faculty in the Center for Music Technology and School of Music integrate practical design with the art of music, creating devices and applications to enhance musical experience.
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Danielle Willkens: Putting People at the Forefront of Design

At Georgia Tech's School of Architecture, Danielle Willkens sees design as creative workflows making the world around us better, putting the needs and experiences of people in the foreground.
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Gregory Randolph: Designing Cities, Supporting Communities

Gregory Randolph explains how Georgia Tech students and faculty approach the discipline of city and regional planning.
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What's Happening in the College

Pre-College Design students in a classroom dive into the brainstorming and sketching process

2025 Pre-College Summer Program

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Student at a workbench, with granite lamps arranged on the bench in front of him

Make 10 Marketplace Keeps Getting Bigger and Better

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Stephen Cassell delivering a lecture at the podium in Georgia Tech's Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium.

Stephen Cassell Presents the Practice as a Project

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Focused Networking for Industrial Design Students

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Thomas Phifer lectures at the podium in Georgia Tech's Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium.

Phifer Explores Shaping Light in Life-Changing Projects

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Janelle Peters holds a dog in the Georgia Tech Architecture Courtyard.

ECO Creates Sustainable Canine Comfort

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SPA students enjoy networking with alumni at a table

Student Planning Association Builds Yellow Jacket Network

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The medusai robot debuts on the LUX stage in Fayetteville, Georgia.

New Robot Musician Makes Modern Magic With the Wave of Eight Arms

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Overhead shot of people mingling at Launchpad Design Showcase

Resurging Atlanta IDSA Links Students to Industry

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Portman Prize Critic: Architects Must Think Simultaneously About Design Dimensions

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Robot arm strums acoustic guitar

Robot Guitarist Plays With Human Expressivity

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Composite image showing BJ Diden conducting the Symphonic Band on the left, Nathan Frank directing the Chamber Choir on the right

Student Musicians Engage Community

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Bruce Stiftel Elected APA Director-at-Large

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Student Achievement

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Focused Networking for Industrial Design Students

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Student Research Attracts Transportation Fellowships

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Lyriel Todd's project Ode.

First-Year Student Wins Third at Lyceum Fellowship Competition

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Design Linking Theory, Material Production

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Composite image featuring sections of two design proposal renders from award-winning student projects, and a photo of the Reck Garage with the Ramblin' Wreck inside.

Student Projects, Reck Garage Win AIA Aspire Award

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Karina Bhattacharya, lower right corner, presents her published paper The Design of Politics and Capitalism at the IDSA Education Symposium.

Tech Student Presents at IDSA Education Symposium

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Student Journal Wins Douglas Haskell Award

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Senior Housing Carries Turac To Berkeley Prize

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Media Inquiries

 
Ann Hoevel
Director of Communications
College of Design
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