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MFA Design launches the Design Futures Lab
![Photograph of MFA in Design student Sarah Bonnickson as she demonstrates her drawing machine.](https://media.cca.edu/images/drawing-machines-4010_LISTING-1.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Decolonizing design
CCA’s Decolonial School focuses on how to relate diversity, inclusion, and equity to artistic and design practice.
![From the As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes exhibition at CCA.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Story_Design-Decolonializing-Desig.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Media coverage / Dec. 19, 2022
Undergraduate Interior Design student receives 2022 Lighting Design Award
Celebrating lighting designers for their creativity and innovation, the LIT Lighting Design Awards recognizes CCA undergraduate Owen Fernando Patia (Interior Design) as Emerging Lighting Designer of the Year.
![Photo of a large, digitally rendered gallery with figures draped in blue and green lighting.](https://media.cca.edu/images/newsroom_Owen-Fernando-Patia-AQUA_.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Can graphic design be political?
Postcards to the President, a project that encouraged attendees to write messages to POTUS, Vice President Pence, state reps, and local leaders.
![Collection of postcards for the president and rubber stamps](https://media.cca.edu/images/Postcards_for_the_President_Story-.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Design pedagogy for collective work
![Assistant Professor Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera (center) teaches his Decolonization & Design course in 2019.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Story_Design-Is_Design-Pedagogy_20.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Media coverage / July 1, 2019
Tish Evangelista, Graphic Design alum, on the moral responsibilities of branding and design agencies
![Tish Evangelista is a creative director and founder at Character.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Tish-Evangelista_07242019_Media-Co.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Media coverage / Nov. 24, 2019
Erik Carter, CCA graphic design faculty member, discusses teaching and his independent design practice
![Selected works from Erik Carter.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Woody-de-Othello-2018-2.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Interior design junior wins major scholarship
![Portrait of Antonia Widodo, CCA Interior Design junior.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Antonia-Widodo_Story_Donghia-Found.8d22cc1c.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Design division welcomes two new chairs
Two new chairs join CCA's Design division, Erin Malone, Chair of Interaction Design and Sara Fenske Bahat, Chair of MBA in Design Strategy.
![A faculty member trying out a student project.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Design-pres_opt.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Media coverage / Sept. 13, 2019
California Home + Design profiles alum Gary Hutton and his four decades in the interior design field
![Interior design for a home by alumnus Gary Hutton.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Gary-Hutton-interior-design_100120.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.png)
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VP of Design at Fitbit and graduate of CCA's Industrial Design program talks about his career journey
![VP of Design at Fitbit and Graduate of CCA's Industrial Design Program Talks About His Career Journey.jpg](https://media.cca.edu/images/VP_of_Design_at_Fitbit_and_Graduat.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Graphic Design Students Create BART Etiquette Posters
![BART game over poster.png](https://media.cca.edu/images/BART_game_over_poster.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.png)
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A decade of design strategy at CCA
![Decade_of_DMBA_Quote.jpg](https://media.cca.edu/images/Decade_of_DMBA_Quote.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Should I get an MFA in Design?
Second-year MFA in Design candidate Winston Struye answers prospective students’ most urgent question.
![Should I get an MFA in Design?](https://media.cca.edu/images/datamojis_3_winston_struye.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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Interrogating boundaries: hybrid practices in MFA Design
![IF/THEN, San Pablo Avenue Ramble, 2019](https://media.cca.edu/images/Story_MFA-Design-Hybrid-Practices_.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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How architectural design can improve social equity
Today, thought leaders in the field are approaching architectural design with an eye not only to aesthetics and environmental sustainability, but also to social equity.
![Drawing of people of all ages and ethnicities gathering for picnics and barbecues in a green space surrounded by houses.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Story_Architectural-Design_2022_he.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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CCA wins San Francisco Design Week award
CCA’s new webpage on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) shares how our community cultivates impact and action.
![deib-listing_thumbnail-Jl](https://media.cca.edu/images/deib-listing_thumbnail-Jl.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.png)
Media coverage / Sept. 27, 2018
Alumni-founded design studio champions local production
![Ceramic pitcher by Yield](https://media.cca.edu/images/products-yield-design-homeware-sai.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
Media coverage / July 29, 2020
Alum Miriam Hillawi Abraham (MFA Interaction Design 2019) wins prestigious Graham Foundation Grant to develop her MFA Design thesis
![Miriam Hillawi Abraham, 2019. Exhibition of thesis work, “Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus,” at the Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco.](https://media.cca.edu/images/Newsroom_Redirect_Graham-Foundatio.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
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DMBA alumna employs design strategy to launch musicians
![Vinitha Watson (headshot)](https://media.cca.edu/images/VinithaWatsonHeadshot-web.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)