Industrial Design

Kudos to Mariah Zambuto (Industrial Design, 2019), who recently won an honorable mention in the Morton Kesten Universal Design Competition. The annual competition recognizes students across the country for their innovative designs using the principles of Universal Design that support aging-in-place.

At Columbus College of Art & Design, artists and designers learn the business skills they need to change culture and commerce.

And that’s evident in CCAD’s Starting an Art & Design Business course, which includes participation in  SunDown RunDown, a nonprofit in Ohio that offers pitch events, funding, and other venture aid to startups.  The experience with SunDown RunDown gives CCAD students a chance to  build valuable experience and gain access to investors, mentors, and important resources.,

Every year at Columbus College of Art & Design, Outstanding Seniors are selected by faculty for their academic and artistic accomplishments. Congrats to the 2018 Outstanding Seniors!

At Chroma: Best of CCAD, you get to see the best of the best of CCAD’s artists and designers. The annual campus-wide juried show and celebration showcases exemplary pieces from each of our majors as well as our CORE programs, MDes students, and our first-year MFA students.

In anticipation of this free festival starring the future of art and design, which is from 5 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9, we caught up with a few students displaying work at the event.

Michael Young is an Industrial Designer at Zukun Plan, an industrial design and mechanical engineering studio whose work ranges from consumer goods to automobile design. Young’s clients at Zukun Plan include Dirt Devil, Bike2O and Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA). He previously designed for Priority Design and Mind On, a digital marketing agency, and his 2015 design of Drakan Spyder bodywork was featured in Autoweek.com, Jay Leno’s Garage and Motormagazine.

Gordon Downey is a designer and illustrator for Big Monster Toys, a toy and game design firm. He invents, designs and builds toy concepts for manufacture for clients such as Fisher-Price, Playskool, Spin Master, Playmates Toys, JAKKS Pacific and many others.

The Industrial Design department announces its 2018 Women in Design Panel, while alumni show all over the world. From Franklinton to Singapore. Get the skinny on what’s happening on campus, in Columbus, and points well beyond.

Escobar facilitating a design research workshop for her senior thesis while at CCAD.

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.