Gregory Dixon (MFA '18) is an award-winning Chicago filmmaker and photographer. His MFA thesis film, Olympia, premiered at the 2018 LA Film Festival and is available on TV and streaming networks worldwide. Dixon's webseries Couch Surferz and his short Me vs. the Tooth Fairy are both streaming on Amazon Prime. In addition to being an independent filmmaker, Dixon produces content for brands such as Accenture, Questar, Barry Callebaut and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).

CDM's Security Daemons team took first prize in the Midwest regionals of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). The team will move onto nationals, which will be held virtually this year. The student organization, which is open to all undergraduate/graduate students interested in Computer, Information, and Network Security, has gone to nationals four of the last six years.

As part of the City of Chicago's 183rd birthday celebration, Mayor Lightfoot announced the official launch of the new Chicago Design System, which will provide "an inclusive, equitable, cost saving system for City communication and for public use to show civic pride.” Chicago's Design Director Jason Kunesh (CDM '06) was a partner with instances of CDM School of Design's EXP 480 Collaboration Practicum involving related projects. DePaul University students and faculty were acknowledged and thanked by the Mayor at this event.