CCS Communication Design

Internships + Positions Day #2: A big CD&S congratulations 🎉 🙌 🌟 to all our students and alumni that have secured full-time positions and summer internships: Nidhi Srikanth, Product Design Intern at XQ Institute and Destiny Smith, Marketing Media Intern !

The CCS Communication Design & Strategy Student Exhibition has officially come to a close! 🎓✨
If you missed it, don’t worry, here’s one final look. Swipe to watch our exhibition walk-through and check out some of the incredible graphic design, brand strategy, UxD, and motion work from our talented students.
Thank you to everyone who came out to support! 🙌

The CCS Communication Design and Strategy Student Exhibition is officially open. 🎉

Come check out incredible, multidisciplinary work from our talented freshmen to seniors, spanning:
🖌️ Graphic Design
💡 Brand Strategy
📱 UxD
🎬 Motion Graphics

📍 Where: 8th floor of the A. Alfred Taubman Design Center (Detroit’s New Center neighborhood)
🗓️ When: Free and open to the public now until May 29

Bring a friend, get inspired, and celebrate the next generation of designers! 🙌✨

A huge congratulations to all the Communication Design & Strategy students who walked the stage for commencement tonight. So much talent and potential… the future of design is bright.

Senior Spotlight: Brandi Witek is a multidisciplinary designer with a love for copywriting. She creates content for social media and enjoys experimenting with print to balance her creativity across both digital and physical spaces. With a research-driven approach and a sharp eye for detail, Brandi always brings thoughtful typography and unique concepts into her work.⁠ Check out her work at: brandiwitek.com⁠

Senior Spotlight: Miyana Tatum is passionate about blending style with function, aiming to create digital experiences that look great and feel natural for users. She believes in keeping things clean and functional while still pushing the boundaries to find unique, creative solutions.

Senior Spotlight: Destiny Smith is a Detroit based designer obsessed with movement, Identity, and fluid visuals. Her work combines conceptual thinking with bold ex*****on, often exploring how design and photography can communicate emotion and narrative in unexpected ways.

Senior Spotlight: Davin Ordiway is a passionate designer committed to visual fidelity and building systems. Whether it's motion graphics, branding, or identity, he brings eagerness to any project. His work is vivid and bold. Davin’s creative range is experimental at times but ever expanding. A nerd for all things design and application, especially typography design. See his work at davindesign.work

Senior Spotlight: I’m Kennedy Noble, a designer passionate about exploring various fields of design, especially branding, packaging, and type design. I’m really excited about the chance to build a system from the ground up. I take pride in executing each project with precision, paying close attention to detail, and I enjoy incorporating vibrant colors and vector art.

My primary goal as a designer is to create work that really connects with and matters to everyone who sees it.

Senior Spotlight: Reese Mallon is a designer and artist who is passionate about telling a good, well-researched story. She approaches her work very methodically, making sure she has a deep understanding of the topic and material before beginning the design process. She really enjoys creative directing and managing projects. She often experiments with funky color palettes, and she is very good at adapting her skills to different aesthetics. Trying out new styles and mediums is always on her mind. Her goal is to make things that matter, things that will invoke change and make a difference. See her work at: reesemdesigns.com