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.
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- Contract or residential furniture designer
- Hospitality furniture designer
- Design consultant
- Design manager
- Environmental designer
- Studio artist
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- Exhibition designer
- Fixture designer
- Hospitality furniture designer
- Instructor/professor
- Lighting designer
- Limited-production furniture designer
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- Mass-production furniture designer
- Packaging designer
- Product designer
- Project director
- Soft goods designer
- Staff designer
Annually, more than 500 national and international companies and organizations recruit SCAD students and alumni. Over the past four years, an average of 8 out of 10 SCAD alumni responding to a survey were employed in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Employers of SCAD alumni include:
- 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
