California Institute of the Arts Graphic Design program
05/15/2026
MFA2 Thesis Projects🙌
The MFA2 cohort is opening the doors to their thesis show this Saturday. A year of research, experiments, false starts, and final forms — now installed off campus and ready to be seen.
Come walk through and talk to the designers.
🗓 Saturday, May 16
🕔 5–8 PM
📍 1933 Broadway, Los Angeles
Open to all. Bring a friend.
Poster designed by ✨
GD Yearbook Launch 🏟️✨
Tonight at 7 PM, the 2026 GD Yearbook goes live.
Built around the language of sports, this year’s website turns each student into a player, with portraits, gestures, signatures, and trading cards that archive not only our work, but also our personalities, energies, and presence throughout the year.
We also made physical card decks, boxes, and stickers featuring all current GD students. Each student has their own card.
Current GD students and faculty — stop by D300 to pick up your free deck!
Cut your own corners and the cards are free.
If we cut them for you, they are $15 :)
Big thanks to everyone on the team who made this happen 💥
Thanks Cowboy Coder and the yearbook team for making this happen!
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05/06/2026
🚆 The Train Never Arrives 🚆
Join us tomorrow night for the MFA Graphic Design End of Year Show. Featuring projects and process work from this year’s MFA students, the exhibition includes print, web, posters, publications, and works across different media.
Date: May 7, 2026
Time: 7 PM
Location: D301
Poster designed by Ashleigh Kawaoka m and Amal Gupta
05/01/2026
The Studio Family 2026
BFAs and MFAs. Critique-worn, caffeine-fueled, and almost at the finish line. One final push.
Big thanks to for capturing the moment! 📸
04/21/2026
FRUI-TEE Market 🍓 Last Thursday we took over the space next to Steve‘s.
Students, faculty, fresh printed T-shirts and totes, all wrapped up in the most satisfying FRUI- packages. We picked our colors, grabbed our tees, and that was it.
Shoutout to the team for designing, producing, and pulling this whole thing together!🧃 .bah ._.designs .y0unji_lee
📸 Big thanks to for capturing the moment!
04/17/2026
Visiting Designer Lecture👀📢
We’re excited to welcome Pedro Lavin next Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 PM in A101✨
Pedro Lavin is an award-winning creative director and designer known for his versatile approach to design, animation, and VFX. After establishing himself at Psyop in New York City, he launched his independent practice in 2019 and has since collaborated with leading animation studios and tech companies as a freelance creative director. He is also a filmmaker, writer, and visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores mythology, ritual, and the primal link between the divine and the profane across film, animation, concept and generative art.
Poster designed by Amal Gupta (MFA1) 🌟
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04/15/2026
The annual Graphic Design T-Shirt Show is just around the corner! 👕
The FRUI-TEE Market 🍓 is OPEN FOR BUSINESS this Thursday in the Main Gallery ✨
We’ve got the freshest designs, printed in red, brown, blue, and green 🎨
Featuring 10 unique designs by faculty, students, and alumni — come shop our “produce.”
Not your style? We’ve also got calendars and totes available 🗓️👜
Doors open at 3PM and we’re selling until we’re sold out — stock is limited, so grab yours while they’re fresh ✨
04/01/2026
Designers’ Baking Session 🥖
Dylan Levine said it best:
“Let‘s make this bread. Let’s bake this bread. Let‘s break bread. Bread and roses. This will be the greatest thing since sliced bread.“
Last Thursday, some of our current BFAs and MFAs, alumni, and faculty gathered at MOM’s in the Chouinard dorm for a baking session. Our visiting faculty, Roman Jaster, guided us through the process from dough to bread.
In the courtyard of Chouinard, we shared in the aroma of rosemary, the sweetness of guava jam, and the creaminess of butter, accompanied by the tender sunlight and a soft breeze at the end of March.
Big thanks to the host committee for leading the session!
Roman Jaster
Maria Garsa .design
Zack Roberts .design
Dylan Levine
Tiffanie Tran
Hope you all are enjoying the wonderful spring break 🌞
✨A special book from visiting faculty Christina Huang:
“Gathering: Ongoing Work by Current Interests in Downtown LA.”
Christina spoke about the design through her choices of material, binding, and content focus in the book. The cover is wrapped in a fabric-like material more commonly used in packaging, giving the book an unexpected tactile quality. The binding uses an elastic cord, allowing the book to expand and shift, making it feel like a loose and growing object, much like the design process itself.
Inside, a mix of papers ranging from toothy uncoated stock to glossy sheets supports different types of content, including photographs of sites and works, as well as drawings and models. A series of tableaus document material experiments and conceptual thinking throughout each project.
Text is kept minimal, with the focus placed on imagery and material, foregrounding architecture as an iterative and evolving practice.
03/20/2026
