CCAD Stories

After graduating from CCAD with a master’s degree, Wilson relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tym Tyler lives on an old farm outside Granville, Ohio. His studio, formerly a chicken hatchery, is, fittingly, dedicated to two seemingly disparate worlds: painting and cycling. Since graduate school, Tyler has been a promoter—in his 20s and 30s, he promoted music concerts, professional cycling events, running events, and triathlons. As he got older, he honed his focus to fitness events (concert promotion is “a young man’s game,” he says).

A group of Columbus College of Art & Design students headed to Louisville Sept. 15–16 to compete against more than 150 collegiate and professional peers in “Hack the Home,” a Hackathon—that is, a marathon of innovation and creation—hosted by FirstBuild and sponsored by 3M, Renesas, Samtec, and US Steel.

30 CCAD seniors, juniors, and sophomores across three Industrial Design studio classes are tackling a new project to design new concepts for Craftsmen for Kids’ wooden toys.

Craftsmen for Kids donate toys to needy children. CCAD students design new toys to aid developmental skills. Partnership fosters creativity and community impact.

This is CCAD’s third year as a member school of the Fashion Scholarship Fund, which distributes more than $200,000 in scholarship funds annually. In addition to the scholarship fund, the trio of Fashion Design students and Fashion Design Associate Professor and Chair Suzanne Cotton attended an all-expenses-paid awards gala in New York City on Jan. 10, 2019.

CCAD Fashion Design students created a look book for retailer Madison-USA, orchestrating photo shoots, styling, and layouts. The winning project will be displayed in early 2019.

Back when he was a student at Columbus College of Art & Design, Josh Hara (Illustration, 1996) made his mark on illustration board. These days, Hara, now Creative Director at IBM iX in Columbus (formerly Resource Interactive) has chosen a new canvas for his self-expression.

Photographer Jiahao Peng (MFA, 2019) chose CCAD for its diverse opportunities. The MFA program developed his skills and artistic voice through critiques and interdisciplinary projects.

As a project manager at WD Partners, a branding agency in Columbus, Courtney Patton wears many hats. In addition to helping designers on her teams with everything from idea mapping to prototype rendering, she also has to seamlessly juggle multidisciplinary team schedules, client expectations, keeping her desk’s popular candy jar fully loaded, and so much more.

Carol Snyder (Fine Arts, 1985) lives and makes art in central Ohio, but her ceramics practice has taken her around the world.

As a Resident Artist at Goodwill Art Studio and Gallery, Cody F. Miller (Illustration,1995) guides artists with disabilities, helping them land exhibitions at galleries across the city.