AICAD Blog

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May 23, 2017

AICAD Alumni & Faculty Win Prestigious 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award

May 23, 2017 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2017 National Design Awards, recognizing design excellence and innovation in 11 categories ranging from landscape to fashion to architecture to product design. Among the winners are two AICAD graduates, Deborah Berke (Rhode Island School of Design, Architecture, 1977) and Joe Doucet (ArtCenter, Communication Design, 1999), and longtime...


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Feb 20, 2017

AICAD VIRTUAL Learning Lab - Creative Critical Thinking: Bringing Design Thinking Into the Classroom

February 20, 2017 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations Join AICAD, NAEA, and speakers Michael Compton, Director of MindMarket at Columbus College of Art & Design and Judy Shafer, Art Education Advocate, on February 27, 2017 (7-8 pm ET) to participate in an ONLINE interactive design lesson entitled Creative Critical Thinking: Bringing Design Thinking Into the Classroom. Participants tuning into the webinar will gain a theoretical and historical overview of...


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Feb 13, 2017

AICAD Librarians Win ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources for Lynda.com Tutorial!

February 13, 2017 Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director, Programs & Operations, AICAD On Wednesday, February 9th, the co-creators of the Lynda.com tutorial, Information Literacy with Elsa Loftis, were presented the Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) at an event held in conjunction with the 2017 ARLIS/NA annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tutorial has had over 121,000 views since its launch in the summer of...


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Feb 01, 2017

AICAD's Response to Executive Order on Refugee and Immigration Policy

February 1, 2017 Deborah Obalil, President & Executive Director, AICAD AICAD has had a multi-decade exchange program in place among its member institutions that in this dark hour will help to mitigate the impacts on affected students planning to study at US institutions. All Canadian member institutions of AICAD will accept any international students who planned to study at a US member institution, and all credits will be fully transferable to any other AICAD member institution. AICAD is...


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Dec 01, 2016

AICAD VIRTUAL Learning Lab - Beyond the Paper Prototype: Teaching Design for Grades 7-12

December 1, 2016 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations Join AICAD, NAEA, and faculty at College for Creative Studies on December 13, 2016 (7-8 pm ET) to participate in an ONLINE interactive design lesson with high school art educators and students at the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies. Ask real-time questions and explore the elements of the design process in action, including inspiration, research, ideation, refinement, prototype, and the final...