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June 2, 2016

VCFA’s Silas Munro on race, marginalized communities, class, boots, art, design, and a whole lot more!

May 23, 2016

Our Twitter account has been going strong for a year now—follow us at @VCFADesign. We also started an Instagram account which you can follow at @VCFADesign.

May 23, 2016

VCFA faculty Natalia Ilyin has an essay titled “What Design Activism is and is Not: A Primer for Students” published in the new book Developing Citizen Designers, edited by Elizabeth Resnick.

May 14, 2016

Technology Will Save Us just launched the Mover Kit – it is the first active play wearable that kids make and code themselves. Check it out!

May 11, 2016

VCFA’s Ian Lynam has a new essay in Slanted Magazine’s latest issue, devoted entirely to Portugal.

May 11, 2016

VCFA MFA Program Director, Jenn Renko, will attend the upcoming HOW Design Live Conference from May 19-22 in Atlanta, GA. Stop by booth #839 for more information and cool swag!

May 11, 2016

Laura Rossi-Garcia, April ’16 graduate of VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design Program, will present her thesis design work at The New School, Parsons “Fresh Grad” event on Thursday, June 2nd. 2016, 6:30 pm in the Parsons Tishman Auditorium. Read all about it!

May 6, 2016

Were the Medium, AirBNB, Flipboard and Beats plagiarized? What does that mean for design and culture at large?

May 5, 2016

VCFA alumna Julie Sittler has a number of exhibitions up now! Woo-hoo!

April 30, 2016

Ian Lynam to co-curate the 2016 Brno Biennial’s Study Room with Kiyonori Muroga of IDEA Magazine in the Czech Republic. Check it out!

April 30, 2016

VCFA will be well-represented at TypeCon, North America’s premier type design and typography conference, to be held in Seattle from August 24 to 28! Read all about it!

April 28, 2016

VCFA MFA in Graphic Design Program Director Jennifer Renko will be at HOW Design Live in Atlanta May 19 through 23!

April 23, 2016

VCFA’s faculty and Guest Critic Kenneth FitzGerald weigh in on the shortlisted Tokyo Olympic logo designs.

April 23, 2016

VCFA Co-Chair judges Lithuania’s national design awards.

April 4, 2016

We are very excited to announce lectures that are open to the public at our residency next week, as well as lectures by Silas Munro and Kenneth FitzGerald that can be streamed directly to your computer if you are unable to attend.