Advertising & Graphic Design

Philippidis is an award winning editorial and commercial illustrator and graphic designer. She was the editorial features illustrator for the Columbus Dispatch for 22 years. Her work has appeared in some of the most prestigious newspapers in the country including the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, LA times and Anchorage Daily News. 

In 2015, students in a Columbus College of Art & Design special topics course revealed a surprising insight about central Ohio organizations that serve survivors of human trafficking: Many of these nonprofit service and care providers lacked basic communications support.

“Most nonprofits and government agencies have little or no capacity for marketing and communications,” says Michael Compton, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design and Master of Design. “Many of them tell us that their funding sources wouldn’t see communications as a priority.”

CCAD alumni are working on solo gallery exhibitions, a distillery and restaurant launch, and a new book illustrated for an Empire star. Get the skinny on what’s happening on campus, in Columbus, and points well beyond.

Here’s a heads up on the construction coming to campus this spring, which will make CCAD more beautiful and safe, as well as myriad mentions of CCAD student, alumni, and faculty work in local media including Columbus Alive, Columbus Underground, and The Lantern. Get the skinny on what’s happening on campus, in Columbus, and points well beyond.

Columbus College of Art & Design students learn to think, create, and work at the highest level, and it’s exciting when others outside CCAD recognize what we already know: Our student are incredible.

Kicking off 2018, Comicon gives a big shout-out to the work of a recent Columbus College of Art & Design Illustration alum, Broad & High highlights a Fine Arts professor’s exhibition, and all the Short North construction feels a little brighter thanks to CCAD student artwork. Get the skinny on what’s happening on campus, in Columbus, and points well beyond.

We know CCAD is tops, and end-of-year press coverage reflected that, with accolades from Entertainment Weekly for a comic by a CCAD alum, and praise for Beeler Gallery from The Columbus Dispatch and Columbus Underground. Get the skinny on what’s happening on campus, in Columbus, and points well beyond.