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March 8, 2024

Two members of the VCFA MFA in Graphic Design community, Chris Lange (GD ‘24) and Leah Chutz (GD ‘24), have been named as 2024 GDUSA Graphic Design Students to Watch. GDUSA is America’s premier graphic design publication. Every year, GDUSA publishes a list of graphic designers who they believe are “…top students ready to burst […]

February 22, 2024

Congratulations to Silas Munro on receiving a grant for The MIT Press Program for Diverse Voices. Munro is a faculty member of the MFA in Graphic Design program. Data by Design: A Counterhistory of Data Visualization, 1789-1900, excavates the hidden history of data visualization through evocative argument and bold visual detail. “Launched in 2021, the […]

February 10, 2024

Join the MFA in Graphic Design program virtually for our upcoming Alumnx Talk on February 13 at 8pm EDT! A panel of alumnx will share their current work and reflect on both their time at VCFA and how their experience in the program helped shape their current creative pursuits. We will conclude with Q+A and […]

December 26, 2023

Join us! Microlecture: Utopianism, Good Enough, and the Grading Rubric. January 6th starting at 1:15 pm EST. Join us virtually on January 6th starting at 1:15 pm EST for an incredible line up of Microlectures by our own Graphic Design Faculty this residency. Our first presentation will be by founding faculty member, Yoon Soo Lee […]

December 23, 2023

We’re so happy to welcome back designer, researcher, educator and VCFA MFA GD alumnx Heather Synder Quinn! Heather is usually where she “isn’t supposed to be.” You will find her playing in unexpected places, physical or virtual, and collaborating with people from an array of backgrounds. She uses design fiction to empower communities to imagine […]

December 20, 2023

The VCFA Graphic Design MFA department proudly presents this year’s edition of Global Studio Sessions. In the past, this has been a lecture series inviting a wide-spectrum of creative practitioners from around the world. We’ve had spotlights on Asia, the Global South, and the Middle East. This year, we have curated the programming around the […]

December 17, 2023

Congrats to Chris Lange ‘24 on being selected as a Center for Arts and Social Justice Community Engagement Fellow for his work “Just A·S·C!” Lange’s VCFA thesis studies the economic and political power structure behind the growth of monopsonies and monopolies. This has led to the realization that individual agency depends upon independent and community […]

December 10, 2023

Dec 2023 Podcast: “What do iconic movements like women’s suffrage, Civil Rights, queer liberation, and the Vietnam war resistance have in common? They tapped into the power of words and images to convey messages of protest that changed the collective imagination and direction of history. For LA-based designer and educator Silas Munro, there is “no […]

November 26, 2023

Sneak Peek! Coming to your mailbox soon! This year, the VCFA alumnx magazine “In Residence” is designed by Graphic Design alumnx Sarah Flood-Baumann (GD ’16). Here is the link to the digital version: Sarah: “I have 12+ years of design experience under my belt and in 2016 I snagged my MFA in Graphic Design from […]

November 4, 2023

Join the MFA in Graphic Design program on. November 9th at 7:00 pm EST for our upcoming Alumnx Talk featuring Ray Masaki (GD ’23), Robyn Lindquist (GD ’22), and Segun Olude (GD ’14). Each Alumnx will share their current work and reflect on both their time at VCFA and how their experience in the program […]

October 21, 2023

GD 2022 Alumnx Simona Bortis-Schultz was honored to have one of her favorite, recent posters, exhibited in the United States and soon internationally as part of the United States Poster International Biennale @unitedstatesipb. All selected posters will be exhibited in multiple exhibitions in the United States starting in Los Angeles, California @posterterritory in Long Beach, […]

September 20, 2023

VCFA GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE HOUSE! Alumnx 2020 Patricia Childs and Alumnx 2018 Katie Krcmarik, Alumnx 2016 Jason Alejandro and Alumnx 2019 Leslie Moore Parker! And Faculty Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, Natalia Ilyin and visting Faculty Ramon Tejada all will be presenting. Join us OCT at the AIGA National Conference! We’re leading education dialogues on Friday and […]

July 20, 2023

From Under the Rubble Faculty Panel: Designing Design History Curriculum Now July 22, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (Mountain Time) Register on Zoom here: When the brain registers disparate stories about a topic, it invents a construct into which those stories fit in order to avoid cognitive dissonance. Such construct-making can have good effects, […]

July 12, 2023

SNEAK PEEK!  The MFA in Graphic Design program’s Summer 2023 residency will be held on the campus of Colorado College July 21-29, featuring visiting designers Ignace Cami, Jürg Lehni, Bethany Koby-Hirschmann, Lana Soufeh, and Ryan Waller and Gary Fogelson (from Other Means). Join us virtually and register for all events in zoom. Click here for more […]

July 11, 2023

Re: Reflecting on the cyclical nature of design, history, and experiences, we found that they are not singular or linear—they are relational and ever-evolving. The prefix “re” emphasizes the importance of learning from our pasts and using that knowledge to promote effective change within the work we do for others and ourselves. Check out our […]