During a visit to Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Chelsea Funk got a spark of inspiration that would ignite her senior fashion collection at Columbus College of Art & Design. “I was really inspired by how the animals are held captive,” says Funk (Fashion Design, 2018). “It made me think deeper about having a disability. How it can feel as if you’re always being watched — like you’re trapped, held captive.”
CCAD Stories: Chelsea Funk
Escobar facilitating a design research workshop for her senior thesis while at CCAD.
Aura Escobar makes an impact in the world of industrial design
“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.”
Anti-human trafficking class uses art and design to help others
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.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one out of five adults and children experience some form of mental illness — that’s a staggering statistic. And it’s not lost on us that the issue of mental health rises to the top of our conversations whenever an act of violence is carried out on the public — in whatever form that takes.
Using design research to tackle mental health
See Julia Hamilton’s exhibition In Loving Color on view now through Feb. 18 at Franklin Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens.
MFA student transforms gift on synesthesia into gifted artwork
First Columbus Black International Film Festival makes its mark
It’s not every day you get a call from from HarperCollins’ Executive Art Director and the Vice President of HarperCollins imprint Balzer + Bray to discuss illustrating a book penned by a TV star. CCAD grad Keturah Bobo (Fine Arts, 2006) got that very call late last year.
CCAD grad Keturah Bobo illustrated book arriving March 6
Award-winning Hollywood digital artist Nasheet Zaman, a Hilliard, Ohio, native, has returned home to Columbus to work as visual-effects and animation supervisor for Ohio Film Group, which is located on the CCAD campus, and as a Visiting Faculty member in the college’s Animation department.
Award-winning digital artist joins Ohio Film Group, CCAD
