KSU School of VCD

The 2012 VCD Senior Show is scheduled to be in the main Art Gallery from April 10 through the 13th. The reception and awards begins at 6:00 PM on Friday April 13, 2012.

BFA Exhibition
April 10th–13th, 2012
11:00AM-5:00PM
Main Art Gallery
Kent State University 400 Janik Drive
Kent, OH 44240

Reception and Awards on April 13th, 2012 at 6:00PM
Area professionals are invited to review portfolios and meet with seniors prior to the public reception.
Please contact the school for further information 330.672.7856

At the Akron Advertising Federation ADDY Awards the evening of Friday, March 2, Kent State VCD students proved their talent once again! Alumni Kate Hardy, Hilary Demko and Dave Steckel from the class of 2011 were in attendance to receive awards for Glyphix client projects completed last academic year. The awards were a Gold and three Silvers in the professional entries. In the student category, senior Kimberly Smolkowicz won a Gold for her t-shirt design for the Roughs eNewsletter in the category of Non-Traditional Advertising. Casey Sandala and Jason Tiberio won a Silver award for their Poster: M.A. in English at KSU Department of English which they designed and photographed.

From his work at the Tannery, graduate student Brian Buirge won a Silver ADDY for a poster created for the KSU College of Architecture in the professional category.

Glyphix was honored to have clients attend the event: Bill Hoover, COO and Doug McKay, CEO of Broadleaf Partners and Professors Sherry Schofield-Tomschin and Harriet McLeod of the KSU Fashion School took time to support our students at the ceremony.

Local business sponsors provided admission for 15 of our students to attend. This allowed eight juniors in addition to the Glyphix students to participate in the evening and gave them a chance to get a glimpse of design and advertising work being done in the area.

The bi-annual AIGA Cleveland Design Competition was held this spring with award presented on the evening of May 26 at the Front Room Gallery in Cleveland. VCD graduate student Jason Goupil and undergraduate student Ruth Turner both received awards in the student category for their poster designs. Jason's poster "Tie the Knot" was a silkscreened process poster designed in a vintage advertising style and depicted steps to tying a bow tie. Ruth's illustrated poster design "My Voice," created for the "Traveling Stanzas":http://vcd.kent.edu/healing_stanzas/index.php design and poetry project, has also won several awards in other competitions.

KSU VCD alumni were well-represented, winning a majority of the awards, including two of three Judge's Choice Awards. Ken Hejduk, owner of Little Jacket won for his AAF Chili Cook-off promotional piece. Christopher Oldham and Christine Wisnieskl of Twist Creative were two of five art directors recognized for the Cleveland Film festival promotional package.

Alumni who won awards include David Roll at Epstein Partners for Website design, John-Paul Walton for App and Website designs, Ken Hejduk, Christian Woltman and Andrew Hendricks for poster and print designs for Little Jacket clients, Lee Zelenak, Mark Nizinski, Christopher Oldham and Christine Wisnieskl of Twist Creative for print and identity designs, Brian Roach of Marcus Thomas for a print piece, Sean Higgins and Nicholas Rezabek of The Bubble Process for poster designs and Rachel Adkins for Website designs. Steve Schulman and Chris Haas work for Flourish which received multiple awards. Congratulations to all!

For the second time in two successive issues, Steven Hughes was recognized by CMYK Magazine in the industry’s New Creative Class of CMYK 50. One hundred award-winning communication art students and graduates were selected to represent their respective schools inside CMYK’s 15th Anniversary June 2011 issue.

Steve’s illustration “The Waiting Room” was selected by guest judge Nora Krug, a professional Illustrator from New York (Published in CMYK 22). Professor Jerry Kalback was credited as the instructor for this work completed while Steve was a student in VCD.

The illustration is described as a portrait of Russell Martin used to promote baseball to inner city youths and revive interest in the sport.

Steve was also featured in CMYK 49 in the fall of 2010. See story

Visit primaryhughes.com for an intriguing web site showing the development process of the series of illustrations.

Steven Heller, one of the most prolific authors in the graphic design community (over 100 design and illustration texts), and one of the leading lights in graphic design education, recently released the fourth edition of his Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design (Steven Heller and Teresa Fernandes, Wiley, October 2010). In it, he ranks Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design program as one of only 40 undergraduate programs evaluated as the best BFA programs in North America and one of only 35 best MFA programs in North America. "This is a remarkable third-party testament to the quality and reputation of VCD," said Stanley Wearden, Dean of KSU College of Communication and Information.

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The School of Visual Communication Design (VCD) Shadow Day is a program for prospective high school juniors and seniors as well as college transfer students. This program offers attendees an opportunity to meet VCD faculty, talk with current VCD students, tour the VCD facilities and classrooms in the ART Building, attend VCD classes with current VCD students, and receive advising from a VCD advisor.

Dates: COMING BACK IN THE FALL!!! Check back at the end of the summer for the Shadow Day program dates for Fall 2011-Spring 2012.
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Contact information: Anita Francisco, afranci8@kent.edu, 330.672.7856 (or) Cathy Zingrone, czingron@kent.edu, 330.672.2950

Along with only three other well-known design schools, the School of Visual Communication Design was listed as a "Top-Ranked Communication Design" school by a contributor to the British Web site eHow.co.uk. Read the posting.

VCD junior Casey Sandala won a Second Place award in a competition sponsored by Indigo Productions. Indigo Productions is a full service multimedia and video production company based in New York City. The award was for her public service announcement project about Child Trafficking. Casey created the multimedia video “Stop The Traffik” in Brian Buirge’s Kinetic + Sequential Graphic Design class last spring when she was a sophomore. Casey learned of the award October 18 and will receive a cash prize.

Link to the video: http://vimeo.com/11579834

The School of VCD is sponsoring a presentation by Studio SSS. Salli Swindell and Nate Padavick will talk about their design and illustration work Wednesday, September 22 from 11:00 AM until 12:30 PM in room 317 of the KSU Student Center. Visit these sites to check out their work. www.studiosss.com and www.theydrawandcook.com.

Ruth Turner's design for the "My Voice" Peace Stanza poster won an Award of Excellence in the UCDA (University & College Designers Association) 40th Annual Design Competition. The poster will appear in the 2010 UCDA Design Show, on display at their Design Conference, October 2–5 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The judges evaluated nearly 1,300 entries, awarding 205 awards – 3 Gold Awards, 3 Silver Awards and 196 Awards of Excellence (not including electronic media and green categories.) The poem was written in an outreach project conducted by the Wick Poetry Center with Lori Galambos' 4th Grade Class at Miller South School in Akron. David Hassler, Director of the Wick Poetry Center was the editor. Congratulations Ruth, the design has been a consistent favorite and a top seller!