The Student Ambassadors are to contribute their singular voices to the Association’s Conferences and the Cumulus community overall highlighting the changes that the next generation of artists and designers are shaping in an increasingly complex and interconnected global marketplace for art and design.

Students partnered with artists, designers, and scientists to envision the future of biotechnology.

Students and faculty members notice! In this exciting project students will have the challenge of puzzling over the use of color (and other elements of design) to create a visual identity for an organization dedicated to the research and application of color. No small feat!

This is a great opportunity for students to showcase their talent and win prizes from the prize pool of $1250. We encourage faculty members to make use of this competition and make it a part of your class!

Act fast, the deadline for these scholarships is March 19th! Type Directors Club Opens Call For 2021 Beatrice Warde and Superscript Scholarships. Recognizing excellence in female-identifying and BIPOC students with $5,000 scholarships; both programs sponsored by Monotype.

The No Waste Challenge presented by What Design Can Do and the IKEA Foundation is now open for submissions! This global design competition focuses on addressing the enormous impact of waste and consumerism on climate change. They are looking for radical new ideas and design-driven solutions to reduce waste and rethink our entire consumption and production cycle.

‘GENSAI’ refers to the mitigation of damage or casualties caused by disasters. This competition has been held annually since 2011, seeking ideas and designs to promote ‘GENSAI’, the disaster mitigation. For this 10th year, the theme is “Gensai design in the age of living with COVID-19”, given that our world is now facing this crisis from the viewpoint of disaster mitigation.

We are excited to announce the Foodicons Challenge – a global initiative that invites designers to develop a shared, open-source, and royalty-free iconographic language of food to be unveiled at the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.