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Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.
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Christina Neston
Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.
Smile Indias
Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…
E-Textiles: Yuchen Zhang
Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…
Model of Collaboration: Baltimore Design School + MICA
The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…
Hilary Ament
Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.
Stephen Edmond
Upon graduation from MICA, Stephen Edmond was recruited by well-known boxing brand Everlast Worldwide, Inc. Within months, he found himself designing…
Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally
How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.
Emma You Zhang
Emma You Zhang ’16 (Graphic Design M.F.A.) is an experience designer and graphic designer at Adobe. She is a design thinker focused on branding…
Ben Peterson
As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…
Virtuoso Faculty: Jenna Frye
There is no clear line between Jenna Frye’s art practice and her work as an educator. Both come down to the same driving force: her desire…
Becky Slogeris
A leader while at MICA - she was a member of MICA’s Student Leadership Task Force Committee and the recipient of France-Merrick Fellowship…
Matt Hodin
Shortly after his graduation from MICA in 2015, Matt Hodin was hired as a production designer by Under Armour at their global headquarters in…
Toy Design... for Elephants
MICA students students accept challenge to design toy for Asian elephants at the National Zoo.
Designing New Leadership, Starting Now
“You have two minutes, start now.”
These six simple words kicked off a flurry of sticky notes, Sharpie pens and far-flung ideas that began our…
2018 Baker Awards
Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…
Rising Star: ND Stevenson
Signing their first book deal while still a student at MICA, ND Stevenson is a rising star. Author and illustrator of the young adult graphic…
Edon Muhaxheri
Edon Muhaxheri is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.
Hermonie Williams
Hermonie Williams is a Baltimore-based exhibiting artist.
Unconventional Illustration
Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…
Andrew Keiper and Kei Ito
When Andre Keiper and Kei Ito discovered their shared connection to the atomic bomb through their grandfathers, they promised to one day explore…
Get Your Green Quotient
Visitors new to Baltimore often remark on how green they find the city, and the amount of trees covering our streets is no accident. For years…
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Masterwork
In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Site Specific, The Baltimore Area
Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
Designing for America
It seems like such a clear solution to reducing recidivism rates prevalent in the criminal justice system: create an easy-to-use SMS text tool…
Setting the Design Standard
The Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence Program
Hello, Allo!
High-profile freelance jobs for new Google app puts alumni work in the hands of people around the world.
Designing the Digital Classroom
M/O/O/C
Power to the Young People
M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.
EPIC Fun
This winter, the holiday season arrived a little early for Maharani, Swarna and Kamala — three of the six Asian elephants living at the…
Paul Mirel: MICA’s Starman
Paul Mirel takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.
Celebrating Dr. Karen Carroll, Dean of the Center For Art Education
As Dr. Karen Carroll — MICA’s “Art Mama” in residence — prepares to retire, her students and colleagues laud her singular brand…
A Conversation with Ellen Lupton
The director of the MFA in Graphic Design talks about the current state of the field and MICA’s graduate program.
First-Year Juried Exhibition
New associate dean Marcus Civin reflects on a strong show by the MFA class of 2017.
Center for Social Design
Learn How Design helps people get the things they need to make their lives better.
Sustainable Design: Alayna Citrin
Currently, a graphic designer at Sir Kensington's in New York City, Alayna Citrin loves working in process-driven, collaborative environments…
Rachel Frank
Rachel Frank leveraged the power of the MICA network to go from intern at NIKE to full-time color designer at the sportswear titan.
Carlos Florez
Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…
Caitlin Turner
Caitlin Turner is a designer at Mission Media in Baltimore, where she creates package design, publications, branding, identity systems and more…
Emily Ragle
Emily Ragle has made apps for the Food Network, National Geographic, Fast Company, the Royal Irish Academy, and more. She is currently principal…
From Coast to Coast: Noah Boyle
Since leaving MICA, Noah Boyle's career has thrived, first as a visual design intern for Huge, Inc. in Los Angeles and currently as a designer…
Meen Choi
Meen Choi maintains an active career as a Brooklyn-based illustrator. In addition to a position as a designer for Bogopa, he pursues freelance…
Tyler Naugle
Tyler Naugle's successful internship at MTV opened the door to a fulltime job there after graduating from MICA. After working at MTV for over…
P.J. Richardson
Five years after graduating, PJ Richardson co-founded Laundry, a creative firm in Los Angeles which today employs 20 employees who take on everything…
Jaimie Bennati
Jamie Bennati is currently teaching photo and video classes in Goiânia, Brazil and has plans to help a local group of women create crafts out…
Knowledge and Community
At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…
Cut/Fold/Make (Unravel the Code)
Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course