The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale

A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.

The summer before my senior year, I worked as a NASA animation intern on-site at Goddard Space Flight Center – commuting from Baltimore to Greenbelt…

Faculty are mindful of how each step of a student’s education can contribute to their long-term success and work to integrate professional…

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…

Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…

Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.

Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.

Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…

Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…

The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…

Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.

Upon graduation from MICA, Stephen Edmond was recruited by well-known boxing brand Everlast Worldwide, Inc. Within months, he found himself designing…

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

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…

As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…

Orpheus Collar ’09 was obsessed with comics as a teenager – so obsessed, in fact, that when he was in high school, his mother tracked down legendary…

As a child growing up in Nigeria, Kehinde Bademosi ’15 (Social Design M.A.) didn’t have a television. His family simply couldn’t afford one. So…

“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…

Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…

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 is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.

Hermonie Williams is a Baltimore-based exhibiting artist.

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

When Andre Keiper and Kei Ito discovered their shared connection to the atomic bomb through their grandfathers, they promised to one day explore…

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…

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…

Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

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…

The Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence Program

High-profile freelance jobs for new Google app puts alumni work in the hands of people around the world.

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M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.

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 takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.

As Dr. Karen Carroll — MICA’s “Art Mama” in residence — prepares to retire, her students and colleagues laud her singular brand…

The director of the MFA in Graphic Design talks about the current state of the field and MICA’s graduate program.

New associate dean Marcus Civin reflects on a strong show by the MFA class of 2017.

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Currently, a graphic designer at Sir Kensington's in New York City, Alayna Citrin loves working in process-driven, collaborative environments…

Shortly after his graduation from MICA in 2015, Matt Hodin was hired as a production designer by Under Armour at their global headquarters in…

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 is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…

Caitlin Turner is a designer at Mission Media in Baltimore, where she creates package design, publications, branding, identity systems and more…

Emily Ragle has made apps for the Food Network, National Geographic, Fast Company, the Royal Irish Academy, and more. She is currently principal…

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…