From a humble begining in 1987, Dato' and Datin Chuah Kooi Yong, a dedicated and determined couple set the wheels of EAA in motion when they decided to venture into the visual communication arena and era, where and when few people dared to tread.

From borrowed place and time, at a 2nd floor suite on Penang Road, Equator Academy of Art was established on 28th of April 1987. It is here that the first batch of students consisted of 7 young adults received their first lessons in the art and design discipline. Within a short period of 3 years, EAA's courses had gained popularity in a momentum that none could have imagined, and with the subsequent increase in student numbers it resulted in a perennial space problem.

EAA, at one point in time, had 3 branches to accommodate all its students with the occupation of premises at Dato Keramat Road, Seang Teik Road and Anson Road. Now it looks as if the space problem is a thing of the past because the management embarked on a bold millennial project of expansion by moving in into 7 Leith Street, a stately pre-second world war mansion that has an exceptionally rich heritage past.

As the new millennium neared the old century bade its goodbye, the eagerness to transverse the trans-century digital divide was greeted by the official opening of EAA's own 5-storey Wisma Equator at Amoy Lane on the 11th of April 1999. This landmark establishment at the Wisma heralded the coming of age of EAA as the cent of educational excellence in the up-and-coming fields of art, design and multimedia.

With international linkages well connected, EAA is poised to grow from strength to strength in the coming years. It is no wonder that EAA has matured and developed into the art and design specialist college that it is today, still the only and design college in the Northern Region of Malaysia.

An achievement difficult to imitate and emulate by others.

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