The new term has begun! 4th year students Alex and Juliana give lovely makeovers to campus newspaper boxes.

IDEA School of Design grad Cristian Fowlie's playful, colour-driven works often find their way into the hands—literally—of readers, viewers, passersby, and even imbibers.

It's almost back to school! Check out the latest video for Youngblood created by my Capilano University IDEA School of Design grad student Tierney Cathella-May Milne and Mark Illing. Each frame was painstakingly created with hand-cut paper using stop-motion animation.

Find out all about our Bachelor of Design program, and meet faculty and students, starting at 1:00 p.m. sharp!

Many congratulations to third year student team Pamella Pinard & Max Littledale for winning a $1,000 Jim Rimmer Scholarship! 

Applications are about to open for September 2017 entry to the Bachelor of Design! We’ll walk you through the features of our program and follow with tours of classroom studios.

IDEA Grad 18 headed to Las Vegas, Nevada this week for the AIGA 2016 Conference.

Congratulations to our 2016 IDEA graduates!This year's crew marks the end of a particular era: they’re the final graduates of the 3-year IDEA Diploma program (the next will be our first Bachelor of Design graduates, in 2018).

Fantastic results for our IDEA illustration students in this spring’s CAPIC's RODEO8 Competition. The IDEA domination in the illustration category here is total!

IDEA School of Design students won awards from: YCN, Jim Rimmer, Applied Arts, CAPIC, 3x3, Redgees, GDC, Salazar, and RGD.

2016 grad Maria Centola has landed an interesting summer job – hand painting a salmon sculpture for the City of Coquitlam's 125th anniversary.

This year, students in the IDEA School of Design were given a unique assignment.

Sample our first year students' favourite pieces of work!

Congratulations to Lilian Leung for winning a D&AD New Blood Award!

We're very pleased to announce that Grad 16 student Shyronn Smardon won one of three new Applied Arts Georges Haroutiun Scholarships! The $3,000 award (design category) also comes with tickets to the Applied Arts Magazine 30th Anniversary Gala in Toronto where the awards will be presented and work shown in front of Canada’s top industry creatives.

Alberta born Cree artist, George Littlechild came to spend the morning with us as part 2 of a wonderful collaboration with aboriginal students and faculty at Capilano University. He asked the class to use their intuition to create an image, or symbol that represented them: something that would touch their souls and bring them comfort.

Lexus recently invited students from Canadian schools to design an auto show display for the new Lexus RX 350 SUV. Three IDEA students beat out teams from OCAD and Concordia!

There is still plenty of time to find out if the Bachelor of Design is for you! We’ll walk you through the features of our program and follow with tours of classroom studios.

The Bachelor of Design second year lab made it into this short promotional video for Capilano University.