IIDA Illinois is very proud of our students who are graduating amidst the COVID-19 chaos and we want to celebrate them and their great accomplishments!
Congratulations, 2020 Seniors!
Abigail Hall is a graduating senior from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She will be moving to Charleston, SC this summer and enjoys commercial design, client branding and identity. She finds inspiration from specific client locations, and loves exploring bold color and texture applications in her designs. Abigail enjoys reading fiction, spending time with family, and traveling in her free time!
Check out some imagery from her senior project below, and even more of her work at her website!
Carly Aldridge is graduating from Illinois State University. She recently moved to Colorado for the summer and is enjoying outdoor activities such as camping and rock climbing in her free time. Carly is continuing her education through a Master’s degree over the next year.
Check out some imagery from her senior project below!
Rachel Gamen is graduating from Illinois State University and has been very involved in her student IIDA chapter as the Membership Chair. She’s also spent her time in school as a Family Consumer Science Dept. Student Ambassador and working part time, not to mention keeping up with her coursework to finish school with a 4.0 GPA. She loves high-end residential design after completing an internship in Chicago during the summer of 2019. She’s already planning to take the first part of her NCIDQ this fall, and is looking for a design position in Chicago.
Check out some of her work from her Senior Project below!
Molly Quinn is graduating from the College of DuPage! During her time in school, she’s been involved in many programs on campus, in addition to keeping busy with her schoolwork. She was the President of the NKBA campus student board and has been a member of the Academic Honor Society since 2017. She has received an Associate of Arts and a Kitchen and Bath Certificate, in addition to completing an almost year long internship.
Check out some of her work at her website!
Megan Westra is graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale this year with a B.S. in Interior Design. She is hoping to move to Colorado this summer, or as soon as it’s safe to travel again!
Check out imagery of her senior project, ‘The Pad’, which was a wellness center in St. Louis MO below. Head over to her website to see even more of her work!
Shaneenah Agustin is graduating from Columbia College in Chicago with a degree in Interior Architecture, but before she landed here in the city, she had also lived in the Philippines and Singapore! She loves cities, exploring food, and diverse cultures. She was drawn to design by the creative way of problem solving- from things as small as a door knob to landscapes and skyscrapers, and even beyond to how we live and are going to live as a society in the years to come.
Check out some imagery from her senior project below, and even more of her work at her website!
Tiffany Caraos is graduating from Columbia College in Chicago with a B.F.A. in Interior Architecture. She’s finishing her college career with achieving the 2020 Interior Architecture Hollis Singer Award with one of her colleagues. She was first interested in interior design from an awe of the infinite possibilities an imaginative mind can create and apply in ways not limited to a canvas but to spaces we experience every day. Outside of school, she harnessed her creativity to experiment with different types of mediums in art and design which has helped her hone a variety of skills.
Check out some imagery and a video from her senior project below, and even more of her work at her website!
Ursula Sharp is graduating from the College of DuPage! She is a passionate interior designer with a background in sales and marketing. She’s creative, hardworking and has a desire to transform a space into something exactly what the client needed all along!
Check out some imagery from her senior project below, and even more of her work at her website!
