Photo by Nils Tarukoski, 2025

Liam Monaghan is an American designer whose work moves between the cultural and the technical, seeking to understand how design can amplify connection and collective experience. Trained first as an audio engineer, he spent years working in live events before turning to industrial design—a transition that continues to shape his perspective on the social dimension of objects, constantly considering design as both artifact and encounter.

He studied at the School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design program before completing a Master’s in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, where he received IDSA’s 2025 Graduate Student Merit Award and was nominated for the AICAD Teaching Fellowship.

Liam has work experience with Leon Ransmeier in New York and with Shane Schneck’s Office for Design in Stockholm. He is currently the founder of Office of Use and a Design Assistant for Jason Miller.

EDUCATION

MID, Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute
2025

MFA, Products of Design
School of Visual Arts
2022

MFA, Products of Design
Temple University
2019

EXHIBITIONS

(upcoming) “Beam”
Paraphernalia, Alien
Curated by Jess Fügler & Eliza Axelson-Chidsey
2026

“Resonance”
Paraphernalia, Desire
Curated by Jess Fügler & Eliza Axelson-Chidsey
2025

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

Industrial Designers Society of America,
Merit Award
2025

AICAD Teaching Fellowship
Nominee
2024

Bienenstock Furniture Library
2nd place, Chair Competition
2023

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