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Academy of Art University Students Enter Into Professional Collaboration With 3D Creation Tool Innovator Gravity Sketch

Gravity Sketch gives Academy of Art students access to their revolutionary virtual product design technology to hone their creative skills.

General Motors and Academy of Art Design Cars for the Future

Tasked with designing a GM car for the year 2025, Industrial Design students worked and collaborated with other departments such as Web New Media, Fashion, and Graphic Design to shape their of automobile.

Aaron Aikman Adds to ‘Planet of the Apes’

In 2011, Aaron Aikman was in the audience viewing 20th Century Fox’s revival of the beloved Planet of the Apes series. Just five years later, this School of Game Development graduate and former basketball player found himself as HALON Entertainment’s lead engine artist working on the trilogy’s final installment, War for the Planet of the Apes.

Walking The Talk With Simon Ungless

Simon Ungless the professor is Simon Ungless the fashion designer. As a renowned professional in the industry and director of the Academy’s fashion school, Simon’s legacy is two-fold.

Advertising: From Art School to Campaign of the Decade

Recognition on an International Scale

Creative Quarterly magazine, an award-winning journal of art and design, features a wide array of work by Academy students and alumni from the Schools of Graphic Design, Fine Art and Photography in recent issues.

Urban Knights in the Spotlight - Vol. 1

Academy of Art University is proud to see students, alumni, and faculty members under the global media spotlight for impressive achievements during this hustle-and-bustle award season.

Animating 'Coco'—Daniel Arriaga Shares the Experience

Standing on stage at the Academy’s 79 New Montgomery Theatre in this past October, Daniel Arriaga looked out on a sea of Academy students as he described his years working on the Pixar feature film Coco as a character art director. One of a number Academy alumni and instructors who contributed to the film, Arriaga may not have shed any tears, but he was clearly emotional as he talked about his full-circle journey from a wide-eyed Academy student to senior director at Pixar Animation Studios.

Mary Telling: Giving Back to the Community

Mary Telling is dedicated to giving her all back to San Francisco. After earning her MA degree from the School of Architecture in 2009, she’s taken multiple steps forward to serve the needs of San Francisco’s underserved populations through her architecture career.

Top 10 Architecture Design Projects from Academy of Art Featured in Dezeen Magazine

Fashion School Alumnus Shows Sustainability in Transformation at 2020 Men's NYFW

Fashion school alumnus Eden Slezin stays the course on his career path as fashion designer. This year, he found himself headed to the 2020 Men's New York Fashion Week.

Interested in Comic Book Illustration?

This is the story of Alexandria Huntington, a School of Illustration BFA student interested in comic book illustration, who was chosen in an international contest sponsored by Adobe to create a one-of-a-kind Marvel Avengers comic.