Product Designer + Artist
Emma Cali is a distinguished graduate from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Industrial Design. She combines her technical training in prototyping, sketching, and modeling with process-based research of textile waste streams to explore the effects and ethics of our material world and how things are made. She has found herself interested in studying pre- and post consumer textile waste and finding product development opportunities within their limitations.
Her strengths are rooted in creative problem solving, interdisciplinary collaborative work, and employing her distinct artistic lens to create beautiful, experimental solutions.
She see's both her art and design work as a way to critically engage with the climate crisis and the human experience, seeking potential and joy in all that she sees and makes.
Education
Accolades
2018-2022
Parsons School of Design
2022
IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America) Student Merit Award 2022
2022
2022
2018-2022
Deans List + Honors graduate
BFA Product Design graduate with a focus in material sustainability . Recipient of the Sustainable Vision award for Senior Capstone and the BFA Product Design award for Sustained Design Achievement.
Each year, IDSA recognizes exceptional student design talent through their Student Merit Awards
Program
Awarded annually to a student for sustained achievement in design by the News School, School of Constructed Environments, BFA Product Design
Awarded to a student whose Capstone project comprehensively embodies sustainable social and material practices.
Graduating from the New School with Academic Honors and emphasized academic honors within the school of Constructed Environments, undergrad Product Design program