We’ve all passed it. Sat on it. Waited under it.
The Rapunzel Bench = College of Design core memory.
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The Portman Sculpture isn’t just iconic—it’s ours.
Right at the heart of campus, this piece by Georgia Tech alum John Portman represents the creative energy that connects design, architecture, and place.
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At the College of Design, we believe in thinking with your hands, designing for impact, and shaping the future of cities, products, music, and the built world.
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Spring at Georgia Tech shows up in details.
A lamp post, new blossoms, and light filtering through- small moments that quietly change how the campus feels day to day.
Most of campus life happens in between.
Between buildings, between classes, between long hours of work. At Georgia Tech, even these everyday transitions begin to shape how the place is experienced.
Last year, M.Arch graduate student @jared.abrahamian was selected to design the inaugural 2025 Design Excellence Awards, honoring individuals from Georgia Tech’s College of Design for outstanding design, creative, professional, and leadership contributions.
Inspired by John Portman’s final project, Koan, on Georgia Tech’s campus, the award reflects a trilogy of traits exhibited by the recipients: Progress (gold), Service (white), and Creativity (dichroic), embracing each other and unified in a single form.
Over the past year, with support from undergraduate student Max Matelic and faculty mentors, the project evolved from a prototype into 42 handmade awards, designed and fabricated in the Digital Fabrication Lab at Georgia Tech.
Photo Credits: @arshk1506
Light filters through the Crosland Tower at Georgia Tech, casting color across surfaces that are usually neutral and still.
A familiar space shifts for a moment - the same place, seen differently through light, color, and time of day.
How often do you notice these small changes in the spaces you move through every day?
The Portman sculpture at Georgia Tech comes alive after sunset.
What is usually a quiet courtyard becomes a gathering space, with light, music, and people transforming the sculpture into a stage. Moments like this show how design and public space can bring the Georgia Tech community together.
Sometimes a place changes completely when people activate it.
Photo Credits: @arshk1506
The Arch West Atrium at Georgia Tech’s College of Design.
A space where studio floors, open balconies, and natural light bring together models, pin-ups, and everyday studio life.
If you had a workspace like this, where would you sit?
Photo Credits: @arshk1506
Ideas don’t stay on paper for long.
In the woodshop at Georgia Tech’s College of Design, students in the Industrial Design program turn drawings into furniture through hands-on fabrication, sanding, assembly, and iteration.
What starts as a concept becomes a prototype through making.
Photo Credits : @arshk1506
Some spaces are loud with ideas. Others are quiet but just as important.
At Georgia Tech’s College of Design, studio floors fill with sketches, models, and conversations, while the corridors in between become places to pause, reflect, and reset.
Which space helps you think better - the busy studio or the quiet hallway?
Photo Credits : @arshk1506
