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AET Lecturer Yuliya Lanina talks to Austin Art Talk about everything from growing up in Russia to having kids to quitting her job as a graphic designer and becoming a full-time artist. 

CID Lecturer Carly Burton shares how the students' research insights in her "Design and Artificial Intelligence" class influenced their design solutions. The class was offered as part of the Center for Integrated Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

The School of Design and Creative Technologies hosted its first Career Jam this week and invited more than a dozen employers to connect with Design and Arts and Entertainment Technologies students.

Early in November, the Foundry makerspace in the Fine Arts Library welcomed its second artist-in-residence, Russian-born American multimedia artist and AET Lecturer Yuliya Lanina. Lanina spent the better part of her time at the Foundry working on a collection of animatronic projects, from doll to human-size in stature, that are intended to interact with the viewer, with sensors that activate motion and audio when a viewer is in proximity. 

The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin today announced the hire of a new chair of the Department of Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies. Kate Canales comes to the Department of Design from Southern Methodist University (SMU) where she serves as Director of Design and Innovation Programs and a Clinical Professor in the Lyle School of Engineering. Canales will assume the role July 1.

Brooks Protzmann writes about his experiences teaching undergradutates from many majors at UT in the "Radical Collaboration @ IBM" class. 

Design lecturer James Walker has a background ranging from environments, branding, illustration and interaction. His work has been featured in several publications and books; was part of larger collective projects that are now in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, MOMA, and the Brooklyn Museum; and has won several design-focused awards from organizations such as the AIGA and Communication Arts. Walker received his M.F.A. in Visual Communication and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, Growth and Renewal in the McCombs School of Business recently invited Jan Ryan, Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to present a workshop on design thinking for their Ignite Startup series. In this Medium blog post, the center shares highlights from her talk. 

Carly Burton writes about her experience teaching a 5-week module on Design and Artificial Intelligence, with the objective to demonstrate how to use design as a tool for solving real-world problems—as AI becomes increasingly integrated into our everyday lives. The class was offered by the Center for Integrated Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Natalie Campbell (B.F.A., Design, 2017) is a visual designer at the Design Institute for Health, a partnership between the Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts dedicated to applying a creative design-based approach to the nation’s health care challenges. Campbell interned at the Design Institute as a communication designer after excelling on a class project for the organization in a Design classes taught by James Walker. Shortly after graduating from UT, she joined the team full time as a visual designer, and in that role, she focuses on creating visual design assets on projects where digital or physical interactions are critical components of the user journey. We caught up with her recently to learn more about her work and interest in designing for health care.