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The game designer as artist
As a game arts major, you can combine your passions for art and gaming to shape the future of play.
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Q&A: Comics professor Justin Hall on nurturing community in queer comics
Interim MFA Comics Chair Justin Hall on his documentary, No Straight Lines, and the importance of finding (and sharing) your own voice.
Media coverage / Oct. 13, 2021
Angela Hennessy is awarded 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship
Media coverage / Oct. 8, 2021
DMBA grad Isaac Buwembo featured on IBM Design’s It’s About Time podcast
Isaac Buwembo (MBA Design Strategy 2014) joins It’s About Time to talk about his career journey and how he infuses his work to advance anti-racism, racial equity, and cultural change.
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Why get an MBA at an art and design school?
Knowing how to leverage design thinking will help you improve the logistics of business administration and your own career—and it may also help you change the world.
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Connecting CCA and the Wattis Institute
TT Takemoto talks with Christina Linden and Anthony Huberman about the adjacency of the Wattis and CCA—and how they’re working to expand the dialogue between the two.
Media coverage / Sept. 23, 2021
Maia Cruz Palileo’s Wattis Institute exhibition featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
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CCA’s Interior Design program awarded $75k Donghia Foundation grant
Media coverage / Sept. 22, 2021
Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus on “Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II”
Press release / Sept. 21, 2021
Wattis Institute’s 2021–2022 research season is inspired by the work of Lorraine O’Grady
Media coverage / Sept. 20, 2021
CCA faculty member Terri Friedman wins 2021 Artadia Award
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Alum spotlight: Architect Nastaran Mousavi
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Alumni Spotlight: Video game designer and animator Babak Saadat
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Three MFA Fine Arts students win Cadogan awards
Press release / Sept. 8, 2021
CCA launches new Bachelor in Fine Arts in Comics in fall 2022
Media coverage / Sept. 3, 2021
Fashion Chair Lynda Grose on the future of fashion education
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) interviewed Lynda Grose and Simon Ungless about the future of fashion education and what they’re excited about in fashion education.
Media coverage / Sept. 3, 2021
Forbes covers Rachel Berger's exhibition, "Shooter Box"
Graphic Design Chair Rachel Berger spoke with Forbes about Shooter Box, an exhibition of designed objects protesting the U.S. military’s use of Microsoft Xbox controllers as battle equipment.
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Which graduate Design degree is right for me?
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From CCA to the NBA: Dustin O. Canalin on designing his dream career
With a passion for basketball and an eye for design, this Bay Area-born alum is living what he loves.
Press release / Aug. 26, 2021