UARK Design

One of our favorite nights to meet the families and friends of our graduating design students! Come see their amazing projects tonight!

We're excited for our students who have set up internships around the world this summer! Company names such as PVH Corp. (parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger), Stone Ward, Studio GLD, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi X, C.R.E.T.A., Walmart AMP, Clarkson Construction Company, Launch Marketing, UA Global Campus, The Twiggs Group, JB Hunt, Hill Records and others! Congrats to our students and we hope to see some great pictures and work from your summer!

Visited with the design teams at the new campus of the Walmart Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas! Thanks so much to everyone there who hosted us! @walmart

Today’s the day! 🎉 Don’t miss your chance to see the incredible work our Design + Entrepreneurship students have been doing all semester! They’ve partnered with real local businesses right here in Fayetteville to create designs for our community. Come show them some love at their end-of-course exhibition tonight at 5:00pm in the Studio and Design Center, Room 242. See you there!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💫✨

Design skills belong in every major! 🎨 Still looking for a course this fall? The School of Art is offering an Intro to Graphic Design course for Non Design Majors. No prior design experience is required! If you’ve ever wanted to sharpen your visual communication skills, build a more compelling portfolio, or simply learn how to grow your design skills, this is your chance! 💫 Swipe to learn more and reach out to Tom Hapgood [email protected] with any questions! ✨

Does emerging technology help us deal with grief?⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Join us Thursday, April 30, 2026, from 5:00–6:30 PM for the last TESL Speaker Series talk of the year:⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ “Caring and grief in a changing world: When griefbots take on the persona of a deceased loved one”⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ Dr. Marco Dehnert is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Technology at the University of Arkansas and director of the ARC Lab (AI and Robots for Connection). His research focuses on human–AI communication, exploring how technologies shape relationships, intimacy, and social connection.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ In this talk and workshop, Dehnert explores griefbots, AI systems designed to simulate communication with deceased loved ones.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ 🥂 Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ 🔗 More info at the link in bio.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ 📍 Studio + Design Center (SDCR Main Lobby)⠀⁣⁣⁣ 696 W. Praxis Ln.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ 🅿 Lot 520 behind the building (no parking pass required after 5 p.m.)⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣

Hanna Ji, current MDES student at the University of Arkansas, is demonstrating the power of design on a global scale. 🌍👏 As a Research Intern with the Refugee and Migration Lab, and in partnership with Rohingyatographer, she worked with Rohingya communities in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh—conducting fieldwork for her thesis on the power of storytelling to empower young girls. We’re grateful to RML and Rohingyatographer for supporting Hanna throughout this work! ✨ Back in Northwest Arkansas, Hanna shares documentation of her fieldwork in her exhibition We too have dreams at sUgAR Gallery. On view through May 6. 🎨💫 𝑾𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 brings together artwork created by Rohingya girls in refugee camps and local girls in NWA through storytelling workshops, alongside photographs taken during fieldwork. It also features selected works of Rohingya artists produced as part of Rohingyatographer’s Visual Storytelling and Human Rights course. The exhibition centers the girls’ voices and aspirations while the photographs offer glimpses into everyday life in the camps. Enriched with audio recordings of the girls chattering, some Rohingya youth singing a folk song, and ambiance from the camps, the works form a dialogue between lived experiences and imagined future. 🌱🤍 #uarkart #uarkdesign #uarkmdes

🎨 Come see what happens when design meets entrepreneurship! Our Design + Entrepreneurship course allowed our students to collaborate with local businesses in Fayetteville to create meaningful, community-centered design work. The result? Real impact for real businesses, right here in our community. 🌱 Come celebrate their work at our end-of-course exhibition Monday, April 27th at 5:00pm! 📍 Studio and Design Center | Room 242 #uarkdesign

A great day recently visiting with some of the JB Hunt creative team in Lowell, Arkansas! Thanks to our MDES alum @artistjtm and to Senior Manager of Creative Strategy Casey Yocum and the rest of the team! @jbhunttransport

Thanks Alicia Capo of @theroarkgroup for another great visit by our Professional Development classes!

We’re so proud of our graduating design student @mckinley.hughes and her work on the exhibition design for last night’s celebration at the Fine Arts Center on the University of Arkansas campus. The exhibition was part of the grand reopening and 75 year anniversary of the center that was designed by Arkansas native and UA alumnus Edward Durell Stone. The event included McKinley’s exhibition design that showed historic works and artifacts in the teaching gallery, in collaboration with the UA Libraries’ Special Collections Division. Her work was completed under the guidance of Art History Program Director John Blakinger @john_blakinger , Curator & Director of Exhibitions Marc Mitchell @methan18 , and Architectural Records Archivist Catherine Wallack, with design guidance and assistance from Graphic Design Associate Professor Ryan Slone @_ryan_slone and School of Art Senior Designer Will Watson @willhwatson . Appropriately, the design style takes elements from mid-century modern design, meshing the bold, uppercase type style with a condensed sans serif. We’re also excited to announce that McKinley will be joining the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art @crystalbridgesmuseum team as an associate designer! Based on seeing this work especially, we know McKinley will be a great part of the Crystal Bridges team with our other alumni there. Congratulations, McKinley, School of Art administration and staff, and everyone who brought this incredible event together!