Welcome to the Fifth Annual Design Winter Market!

Welcome one and all to the Fifth Annual Design Winter Market! This webpage is the online companion to an emerging tradition within the Department of Design at Ohio State. During the Winter Market, an on-campus event and online exhibition, guests will encounter limited-edition – and in several cases unique – products designed and produced by design students. Products will be available to purchase for a limited time only!

The Fifth Annual Design Winter Market features:

• Home Goods Shoppe – Each of the eight “housewares” products, designed by third-year industrial design students as part of an Autumn 2022 studio course, strike a balance between addressing the needs of users, demands of small-run production, constraints of a limited budget, and approaches to sustainability.
• Greeting Card Station – featuring more than two dozen hand-crafted, seasonal stationery products, designed and produced by students in the design foundations program
• Second-Year Sideshow – featuring knick-knacks and giveaways produced by second-year students in the industrial design major
• Design Ventures Showcase – featuring product offerings from small businesses owned by current design students
• Special Guests: Women’s Glee Club

Winter Market Products will be on sale for a limited time on December 7, 2022, and only on location (from 10 AM-12 PM in front of Hayes Hall on Ohio State's campus). Proceeds from this year’s Winter Market benefit the student-led Ohio State chapters of Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Columbus Society of Communicating Arts (CSCA).

How It Works

Preview Fifth Annual Design Winter Market products online, then visit our on-campus location to purchase during a limited time window: products will be on sale during our on-campus Winter Market event from 10 AM-12 PM in front of Hayes Hall on Ohio State's Columbus campus on December 7, 2022. In years past, products sell out in mere minutes!

Products must be purchased with Design Winter Market tickets, which will be available to purchase on-location during the event. All ticket purchases must be completed in-person via our online system – we cannot accept cash or other forms of payment in-person.

There will be no shipping options for purchases. All purchases must be picked up during the on-campus Winter Market event. Although discouraged, you may request alternate pickup arrangements by contacting Assistant Professor William Nickley at nickley.3@osu.edu.

For those products that have multiple variations or colors available, customers will make their selection during pickup on a first come, first served basis.

All sales are final, no refunds. No expressed or implied warranties.

Special Thanks

The student designers (and their Professors) would like to extend a special thanks to six industry professionals – some of them OSU Design alums – who contributed to the development of these products through their participation during studio critiques and/or guest lectures: Dounia Tamri-Loeper, Tanya Vora, Todd Perkins, Mackenzie Shaw, Merijn van der Heijden, and Lily McBride.

Additional special thanks to members of the student chapter of CSCA at Ohio State, who designed the Fifth Annual Design Winter Market brand identity and guidelines: Lilyana Bryan and Ciera Yamarick.

Home Goods Shoppe

Greeting Card Station

Designers: First-year students enrolled in the design foundations program

Materials: Paper, ink

Year: 2022

Description: First-year design foundations students have crafted 22 bundles of one-of-a-kind seasonal greeting cards. Guests will find a wide range of designs reflecting studies of nature through pattern, which result in beautiful abstractions that invite us to reflect on and interpret the natural world around us. Texting is out – we are reviving the personal hand-written note to encourage connecting with others this holiday season!

$5 per bundle of 4 cards / $10 per bundle of 10 cards

Second-Year Sideshow

Designers: Erin Shaw, Harrison Dodd, Elise Aultman, Morgan Brown, Mark Celestina, Brett Enders, Emily Straughn, Liann Trahey

Materials: Varies

Year: 2022

Description: Second-year students in the industrial design major feature their work as a “sideshow” to the Design Winter Market. A “Trinket Table” will offer visitors small designed objects in the $5-$10 range, including crochet beanies or characters by Morgan Brown, wooden mushrooms by Mark Celestina, acrylic earrings by Brett Enders, Mark’s Cookies by Mark Celestina, and small crochet pouches by Emily Straughn. Guests will be able to spin a handmade prize wheel, created by Erin Shaw and Harrison Dodd, for a chance to win prizes (while supplies last), including Mark’s Cookies, small chipboard geese, stickers, and treats. Stickers will be designed by Elise Aultman and a range of second-year students in the Visual Communications major including Liann Trahey.

$5-$10 each / free (while supplies last)

Design Ventures Showcase

Designer: Dominique Flaksberg

Materials: Returnable glass bottles, compostable labels, and ingredients sourced from small, organic and/or local U.S. farmers

Year: 2022

Description: This year’s Design Ventures Showcase features Dominique Flaksberg, an MFA candidate in the Design Research & Development track of the graduate Design program. She will have a small table displaying handmade goods from Circular Bodies, a wellness company Flaksberg founded to provide low waste day-to-day products for the home and body. Products range from oils and moisturizers, staples (such as soap and deodorant) and holiday specials (like candles and soap kits). Circular Bodies was designed with a closed loop production system based on the circular economy model, where materials are cycled back into natural systems without generating waste.

$5-50

Fifth Annual Design Winter Market is presented in partnership with Hybrid Arts Lab, a multi-venue learning lab that experiments with how art is imagined, made, viewed and understood within physical and digital spaces.