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Design students gain the skills and perspective needed to positively impact society and create beauty while doing it.

Choosing the right graduate school can set the stage for your career, community, and area of focus. We've compiled ten reasons to say 'yay' to the Bay Area.

CCA alum Patrick Lin has one of the most coveted Pixar jobs: DOP. Learn how he merges traditional cinematography with 3D animation software.

CCA partnered with Pixar during an intensive summer program—focused on new voices, collaboration, and storyboarding—for students pursuing an animation degree.

Things to consider when you are getting serious about how to pay for art school.

CCA to partner with Summit by providing a broad network of mentors for its students.

Advice on maximizing scholarship money with your art portfolio.

The quality of your art portfolio has the single biggest impact on your application to art school. Here are some tips on what to include.

Here are a few tips to make the process of selecting samples for your portfolio a bit easier.

Learn how to create a portfolio that showcases your technical, creative, and conceptual abilities and separates you from other applicants.

CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab won the 2018 R+D Award by Architect Magazine for Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab.

Modern Luxury Silicon Valley profiles MBA design strategy alumna Reena Merchant.

Chair of fashion design Lynda Grose discusses what makes CCA's fashion program different.

Graphic design students work with BART to encourage better rider etiquette.

Fitbit's VP of Design Jonah Becker shares how his industrial design degree from CCA helped him get there.

Students discuss how their internships opened up new career paths.

Furniture and Fine Arts faculty member Donald Fortescue travels to the Arctic as a part the Arctic Circle Residency.

Equal parts artist, activist, and educator, Humanities and Sciences Dean Tina Takemoto is a force to be reckoned with. Their work takes many forms and deals with issues of race, gender, queer identity, memory, and grief.

Amanda Cachia (Visual and Critical Studies 2012) discusses her research, her experience at CCA, and her work curating shows around the world.

Steven Miller (BFA Interior Design 1992) shares what initially drew him to interior design and what it's like to start your own studio.