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Our alumni work at Disney, Google, CHANEL, Mattel, and the Guggenheim, around the globe and across industries. They work as creative directors, teachers, product designers, curators, entrepreneurs, and so much more.
Moana, Frozen, Wreck-it-Ralph, and more: As an animator and head of animation on many projects at Disney, Amy Lawson Smeed (BFA 1997) is behind the scenes of your favorite movies.
Minh-Tam Nguyen (BFA 2017) works as a senior face designer for Mattel and has become an advocate for diverse representation in toy design. “Now I get to be a part of that change, so that's just a really fulfilling full-circle part of my life,” she said.
When SAIC alum Spencer Davis (BFA 2011) wanted to transfer to SAIC, his parents asked him to make a presentation about career paths that would be open to him as a graduate of an art and design school. He outlined possible futures, but his parents could not imagine where he’s ended up, as a successful principal design lead at Microsoft, working on operating systems and virtual reality headsets.
