CCAD’s Senior Capstone and Illustration Market classes collaborate with McKinney Middle School, Yellow Springs, Ohio, to create comics inspired by the blockbuster movie Black Panther.
CCAD Illustration students act as sidekicks in middle school's Black Panther comics projects
A.G. Ford is the New York Times best-selling illustrator of Barack by Jonah Winter and Desmond and the Very Mean Word by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams. He has won two NAACP Image Awards, and his clients include HarperCollins, Candlewick Press, Black Enterprise and Simon & Schuster. One of his latest books is My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King III.
Notable alumni: A.G. Ford (Illustration, 2006)
Wes Talbott is an award-winning illustrator and designer. He has worked as a Lead Concept Artist for Alexander Films and as a Concept Artist and Texture Painter for Emerald City Games. Talbott is currently building models and doing illustration work for LEGO.
Notable alumni: Wes Talbott (Illustration, 2013)
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.
Notable alumni: Evangelia Phlippidis (Illustration, 2008)
Get to know some of the talented Columbus College of Art & Design students and alumni whose work will be available for purchase at the CCAD 2018 Spring Art Fair on Saturday, April 7. Find other entries in the series here, here, and here.
Spring Art Fair preview: Illustrations and prints by Logan Schmitt
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.
In other news: 1.24.2018
"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night Live Playing Cards!"
Alum Jay Fletcher creates gorgeous packaging for SNL playing cards
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.
In other news: 1.9.2018
