<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/ubalt-stories-business-design-partnership.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>06/29/2026</pubDate><title>Real Clients Shape Student Designers’ Work</title><description>Graduating Integrated Design students at The University of Baltimore get a taste of the creative pressure they will experience in a professional setting in Seminar in Publications Design course, one of two capstone courses for the M.A. in Integrated Design program.</description><author>UBalt Stories</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/integrated-design-capstone-feature.jpg" alt="Three students, each with a laptop open, discuss a presentation while looking at one of the students' screens."/></image><image-cap/><quote>It's interesting to see different people, the different paces that they go at, and the different communication styles and levels of clarity that they give you.</quote><quote-name>Melissa Baley</quote-name><quote-info>M.A. '26</quote-info><tags><tag>Academics</tag><tag>Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences</tag></tags></item>