CCS Students Get Real-world Opportunity with Designs for Pistons

The program between the Detroit Pistons and the College for Creative Studies has engaged cross-discipline students to create a series of 10 posters. The partnership allows students to get attention for their skills and to commemorate the opening of the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center in New Center Detroit.

100 Days of Color and Materials Design

100 Days of Color and Materials Design CCS Chair of MFA Color and Materials Design Sally Erickson Wilson first learned of the 100 Day project in 2014 via an essay and podcast at the Design Observer. The project, which began as a workshop led by designer and critic...

Materiality in Design

Materiality in Design Often the alternative to using, and recycling, artificial materials is the judicious use of natural materials. Wood, for example. We love it for its texture, its heft and solidity, the grain and color — its materiality. In research he conducted...

CCS Alumna Opens Tattoo Parlor and Art Collective

CCS Illustration alumna Samm Rae recently hosted the grand opening of her brand new KarmaKnife Tattoo and Art Collective in downtown Jackson, Michigan. This collective not only acts as a tattoo parlor, but also a fine art gallery featuring the work of local artists, who receive 100% of the proceeds.