A film-and-television creative team from the Qingdao Base of Industry-Education Integration at Shandong University of Art & Design (SUAD) has been featured on Midnight News on CCTV-13. Using AIGC technology, the faculty-and-student team produced an ink-wash, Chinese-style animated short film, The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea, a fresh digital retelling of a classic Shandong coastal legend. Grou...

On the morning of August 18, a delegation from City University Malaysia, led by Prof. Norman Chu, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. Tan Yong Chai visited Shandong University of Art & Design (SUAD). The two sides discussed the joint master's program, while also exchanging views on faculty-and-student exchange, research cooperation and joint doctoral training.

On August 20–21, the third session of the United Nations' Global Dialogue series on Artificial Intelligence and Human Development was held in Xi'an, China, convening policymakers, technical experts, and representatives from academia and culture to discuss the transformations that AI is bringing to human civilization and social development. Prof. Gu Qunye, Dean of the Graduate School of SUAD, w...

On June 17, 2026, Shandong University of Art & Design signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Linyi Municipal People's Government at the Changqing campus. The agreement aims to leverage the university's design expertise and talent resources to support Linyi's industrial transformation and cultural development. This partnership will also provide practical platforms for the un...