13 Notable alumni of
College for Creative Studies
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The College for Creative Studies is 2411th in the world, 844th in North America, and 798th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from the College for Creative Studies sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mary Lynn Rajskub
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- television actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
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Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24 and Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Rajskub was a regular cast member on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David, appeared in The Larry Sanders Show, Brooklyn Nine Nine, and Veronica's Closet, and such films as Dude, Where's My Car?, Firewall, Sweet Home Alabama, Punch-Drunk Love, Mysterious Skin, Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning, Safety Not Guaranteed, and The Kings of Summer, among others.
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Harry Bertoia
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- sculptorprintmakerartistjewelry designermusician
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Harry Bertoia was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer.
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Gerald Wiegert
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- car designerinventorbusinessperson
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Gerald Alden "Jerry" Wiegert was an American automotive engineer and businessman, notable as the founder of two companies, Vector Motors and Aquajet, and for designing the products marketed by those companies.
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Bill Morrison
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- comics artistillustratorvisual artist
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Bill Morrison is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor. He is a co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance).
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Wendy Froud
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- puppet makerdollmakercostume designer
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Wendy Froud is an American doll-artist, sculptor, puppet-maker, and writer. She is best known for her work fabricating Yoda for the 1980 film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, for which she has been called "the mother of Yoda", and creatures for the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
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Kevin Siembieda
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- science fiction writernovelistrole-playing game designer
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Kevin Siembieda is an American artist, writer, designer and publisher of role-playing games.
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Jelani Aliyu
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- 1968-.. (age 56)
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- designerbusinessperson
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Jelani Aliyu is a Nigerian automotive designer who worked for the American car company General Motors. He was a senior creative designer at GM until his appointment as the director general of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) in 2017 by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari.
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Tyree Guyton
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- artist
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Tyree Guyton is an artist from Detroit, Michigan. He is married to Jenenne Whitfield and continues to live in Detroit. Before becoming an artist, Guyton worked as a firefighter and an autoworker and served in the U.S. Army. He studied art at Marygrove College, Wayne State University, and the Center for Creative Studies—now College for Creative Studies. Guyton counts his grandfather, Sam Mackey, and Detroit artist Charles McGee as his greatest influences.
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Charles McGee
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- artist
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Charles McGee was an American artist and educator known for creating paintings, assemblages, and sculptures. His artwork is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. He also had several large-scale public works in the city of Detroit.
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David Lyon
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- car designer
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David Lyon is a car designer best known for his work with General Motors where he worked directly from college in 1990 until 2012. He is originally from Naperville, Illinois, United States and has been moved around several General Motors design studios during his career. He is currently working for VinFast, a Vietnamese automobile manufacturer.
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Bryan Thompson
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- 1974-.. (age 50)
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- designer
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Bryan Thompson is an automotive and freelance designer. He received a Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from College for Creative Studies in 1999 and was employed at Nissan Design America in San Diego for a decade. Thompson has created production and concept car designs for Nissan, Volvo / Mack Trucks, Embraer Executive Jets and Airstream. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his partner since 2011. He has designed in studious "around the world from France to Japan, Austria, and Brazil."
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Richard Ritter
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- glass artist
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Richard Ritter is an American studio glass artist who lives in North Carolina.
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Carol Wald
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- 1935-2001 (aged 66)
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- artist
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Carol S. Wald was an American artist who was also widely known for her talents as an illustrator. Her collages and paintings appeared in Time, Fortune, and Ms, and on the covers of Business Week, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Saturday Review.
