More On: Creative Work

Showcase 2025 highlights unique creative research
When is art not just art? When it’s creative scholarship, the academic work that combines traditional research methods with creative practices.

Auburn alumnus’s work exhibited at The Met
Exhibition marks the first retrospective of Modernist Architect Paul Rudolph ’40

Showcase 2025: Spotlighting creative scholarship on campus
A video game about conservation efforts on the Gulf Coast. A dress that’s a mashup of Harley-Davidson and Dior. An Art Deco-style lamp crafted with sustainable materials. A classical music album inspired by Alabama’s cultural history. Design plans for a house that can withstand a 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

Weekend Workshop Explores Design and Technology
When planning for Urban Studio’s permanent home in the former Hood-McPherson building, Director Alex Krumdieck ’86 knew one of the important aspects of the new space would be to inspire interdisciplinary collaboration within the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC).

GDES Faculty Recognized with 2025 Graphis Award
Courtney Windham and Mario Bocanegra, faculty in Auburn’s School of Industrial and Graphic Design (SIGD), have been recognized with a 2025 Graphis Poster Design Award.

SIGD’s Kelly Bryant Named South Arts’ Alabama Fellow and Southern Prize Finalist
Kelly Bryant, professor of graphic design in SIGD, has been named the 2023 Alabama State Fellow and a Southern Prize Finalist by South Arts.

Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Devon Ward
Devon Ward joined the graphic design faculty in SIGD as an Assistant Professor last fall.

Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Mario Bocanegra
Mario Bocanegra, an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Industrial and Graphic Design, joined the faculty in January of 2022.

Finkel and Windham Win in 2023 Graphis Design Competition
Faculty members Robert Finkel and Courtney Windham both took home awards in the 2023 Graphis Design Competition.

Ward Recognized for Western Australian Film Festival Design
Graphic Design USA recently recognized Devon Ward, assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Graphic Design, for his outstanding branding and logo work on behalf of The Other Film Festival: Western Australia.