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SDCT's Top 10: Year in Review

Relive standout events, inspiring student work, and key milestones from the 2024–2025 academic year.

New "I voted" sticker designed by UT student debuts in travis county

New ‘I Voted’ sticker created by UT design senior Ashwara Pillai debuts in Travis County

October 21, 2022

The Travis County Clerk’s Office launched a design contest earlier this year asking local college students to create a new sticker, and Ashwara Pillai’s submission won. The University of Texas at Austin senior made time during the middle of her finals week to craft a design depicting a bluebonnet in check mark form with the words “I Voted” next to it.

Reviving Erased History: How Associate Professor Kate Catterall used design to resurface a Belfast memory

Reviving Erased History: Associate Professor Kate Catterall

October 14, 2022

Associate Professor Kate Catterall used design to resurface the Ring of Steel, a Belfast memory buried for 25 years, with a 12-hour performative event that sparked a conversation between generations and across sectarian divides.

Gefilte Fish Animation by Yuliya Lanina

Digitality in the Arts: Yuliya Lanina explores intergenerational trauma from Holocaust in stop-animation film Gefilte Fish

October 14, 2022

How technologies are transforming scholarship, practice, and archival work including work from an Arts and Entertainment Technologies professor.

2022 New CoFA Faculty

UT College of Fine Arts welcomes diverse cohort of new faculty members

October 12, 2022

The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin has appointed 13 new career faculty members, including 5 across The School of Design and Creative Technologies for 2022-2023. This cohort of new faculty members represents a diverse array of cultural and scholarly backgrounds and expands research and creative practice opportunities across the college.

Fall 2022 student fellows at The Texas Tribune, including senior Design major and SDCT student ambassador Juleanna Culilap

Design senior Juleanna Culilap named fall 2022 student design fellow

August 25, 2022

As a new academic year begins, it’s time for The Texas Tribune to welcome fall fellows. Juleanna Culilap, a senior Design major, is a design fellow. She is design editor at The Daily Texan, design director of Spark Magazine and a student ambassador for the School of Design and Creative Technologies. Previously, Juleanna was a print graphic design intern for Victoria’s Secret’s Pink and a participant in the 2022 Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection summer residency.

From left to right: Arts and Entertainment Technologies Department Chair Michael Baker, Design Department Chair Kate Canales, and Assistant Dean Doreen Lorenzo at Graduation in 2021

Conversations with Doreen Lorenzo

August 9, 2022

VoyageAustin interviews SDCT Assistant Dean Doreen Lorenzo about working with creatives and the importance of continuous learning.

An open laptop against royal blue solid background displaying the Cita Press website homepage that features their mission statement.

Feminist, Open-Access, and Decentralized — Cita Press Share Five Favorite Books

August 1, 2022

This genius platform transforms public domain texts by female authors into beautifully designed eBooks & hardbacks.

close up image of Rob Roy Kelly Woodtype Collection by Romy Suskin for The Alcalde

The Right Type

July 12, 2022

Housed in the Design Department's Design Lab, The Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection is a comprehensive assortment of wood type amassed by noted design educator and historian Rob Roy Kelly in the 1950s and 1960s.

Karl and Nelda Buckman smile and throw up "hook 'em horns" hand signs alongside members of the College of Fine Arts development team at UT Austin

Nelda Studios: A Foundation for a Dream Realized

June 16, 2022

Philanthropists Karl and Nelda Buckman created an incredible resource for artists to fully commit to their passions.

UT Austin professor Yuliya Lanina smiles in the foreground while NYU professor Carla Gannis smiles via Zoom on a screen in the background

LAUGH OUT LOUD: Professors from UT Austin and NYU explore how to be funny in any medium

June 10, 2022

At a time when humanity struggles with a global pandemic and faces so many other crises, two distant professors — one in Texas and one in New York — decided to offer a college course on humor and absurdity.