Jim Cogswell creates the "World's Largest Vinyl Painting" for the new C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

Students in SmartSurfaces team up to provide design solutions for an off-the-grid artist house in Detroit.

Director of Work•Detroit Stephen Schudlich gives an illustrated, culinary tour of Detroit.

A&D students and faculty are bringing art back into the school day and learning some lessons from students about creativity and play .

Curators Stephanie Rowden and Kath Weider-Roos on the making of Sounds of the State.

New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff: Why Art Should be Funnier

A&D Professor Jim Cogswell writes about the meaning, practice and study of painting.

A&D Associate Professor Nick Tobier on social design and his interest in Detroit.

Art & Design, Engineering and Music studients learn how to cast carillon bells for a course called "Shaping the Sound of Bronze".

A&D Alum Linda Holliday (BFA '79) describes how an art and design education can pay off.

A&D Student Stephanie Starch reflects on her experience designing and building treadle pumps in Madagascar.

A&D Alum Joan Sugihara (BFA '72) talks about how - and why - she has chosen a creative life.

A "floating residency" in the arctic circle helped Osman Khan create work that responds to climate change.

Profiles of four A&D Seniors, each with a different approach to the year-long Integrative Project.

Can one course change the world? SmartSurfaces, an innovative, multi-disciplinary team-taught course channels the power of collaboration.

Visiting artist collective Tiny Circus creates public, engaging art with the magic of stop-motion animation.

Recent A&D graduate Belal Hibri talks about his work as a colorist in the film industry.

Visiting artist Andrea Loefke helped A&D students create - and inhabit - a mysterious, three-tiered green world.