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Cat City Wins Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films Award
The short animation film “Cat City”, created by CAA graduates, recently won The Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films Award! The Zagreb World Festival is the most time-honored animation film festival in Europe.
The short film tells the story of how a small group of people found a giant sleeping cat and ended up building an entire city around the animal. One day however, the cat wakes up – take a look at the video and see if you can guess what the cat represents. Most of the sound effect
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2018 Design Intelligence Award Design Week (DDW) Will Open
The 2018 Design Intelligence Award Design Week will be held on May 6-10 on our university’s Nanshan Campus in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Its press release is held on April 26 on Nanshan Campus of CAA.
Guided by Zhejiang Principal Government, Design Intelligence Award (DIA) has been held by China Academy of Art for consecutive three years. The DIA is set up for improving industrial upgrade in Zhejiang province and China.
The 2018 DIA Design Week (DDW) is a new highlight of this y
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When Peppa Pig Meets Porcelain
For those of you that like the cartoon Peppa Pig, you will absolutely love this porcelain cup. It was designed and created by Chen, a CAA graduate that majored in traditional Chinese painting. The designs on the cup were painted in the traditional Chinese style – the perfect combination of old and new!
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The 2nd World Industrial Design Conference opened
The 2nd World Industrial Design Conference opened in Yu Hang District on April 21. The conference is initiated by China Industrial Design Association with design organizations, corporations, and universities from over 30 countries. It aims to set up an international cooperation platform to promote design creation and harmonious development between economy and society as well as cooperation on design among nations and districts.
As a part of the 2nd World Industrial Design Conference, an
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Spring Career Fair of 2018
CAA held its Spring Career Fair of 2018 on Friday, April 20th.
Booths lined in the gym on Xiangshan campus, with over 200 companies advertising nearly one thousand job and internship opportunities on site. Students were seen bustling around the fair with their resumes in hand, hoping to land a spot in their dream companies.
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Write A Letter Home
When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone?
Since digital communication has become so accessible, picking up a pen and #writing a letter to a friend or family member hardly ever crosses our minds nowadays.Recently, students from the School of #Intermedia at CAA gathered to write to their families as well as to their Alma Mater (CAA) in celebration of the university’s 90th birthday.
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Sketching the Towns!
It’s CAA’s tradition that freshmen led by their professors in every spring go to countryside in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Shanxi provinces for sketching its scenes. In the nights, teachers comment on students’ sketches created during the day. Students used their cameras, brushes and colors to record local views and its architectures, lovely animals in rural towns.
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Young Art Enthusiasts in the China Design Museum
Even though the China Design Museum has only been open for a few days, it has already attracted many visitors. Last Sunday, a group of young art enthusiasts spent a day at the museum. Following the teacher from the Children’s Workshop at the museum, they enjoyed the exhibitions and designed their own handbags inspired by the famous work-Red&Yellow&Blue Chair afterwards.
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Celebratory Souvenirs are launched!
Our university’s DDD Store designed a series of celebratory souvenirs for CAA’s 90th birthday; including badges, brushes, scarves, bookmarks and other products. Additionally, the DDD Store also designed some Bauhaus-themed souvenirs for the opening ceremony of the China Design Museum.
Souvenir badge for the 90th Anniversary of the China Academy of Art
A set of duplicate writing papers and envelopes from the National College of Art era and a brush from Huzhou
A Souvenir brush gift set for the
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CAA campuses hold museums of grand architectures
At present, two CAA campuses hold museums of grand architecture. On Xiangshan Campus, you can find the Crafts Museum and the China Design Museum designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winners - Kengo Kuma and Alvaro Siza. Xiangshan Campus is the work of Wang Shu, the first Chinese national to win the Pritzker prize. In the northeast of Hangzhou, the new Liangzhu Campus is designed by Zhang Yonghe, a Pritzker prize judge. The new campus is predicted to open in 2020.
