The faculty and staff of the Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design are committed to creating an excellent educational experience for our students, and access to technology is a fundamental part of an OSU education in this day and age.

To insure the optimal studio experience in our program, we are instituting a purchase plan that will give incoming and returning students access to a laptop computer that has the minimum configuration necessary to meet the needs of the various programs. This plan provides the uniformity of hardware and software that will serve the need for students to use computers broadly throughout the curriculum, and also provides the best available price for the computer.

Students in the Design program will be expected to purchase a laptop computer that meets this minimum configuratiuon. This purchase plan is available for Autumn 2006 and is recommended for all potential majors and pre-majors.

Students in Visual Communications should buy the Apple laptop; students in Industrial Design should buy the Lenovo laptop or the Apple laptop with the BootCamp software needed to rum Windows XP; students in Interior Design can also choose either the Apple or the Lenovo.