2012 Graphic and Interactive Design Exhibition
First Friday, May 4, 2012
5:00pm – 8:00pm

The Ware Center
42 N. Prince Street
Lancaster, PA 17603

Open to Millersville University alumni and future students, and to the general public.

MU Design student Emilee Hunt has won a poster design competition sponsored by AIGA Baltimore. Emilee’s winning design, seen above, will be used for the Ink/Pixels 2012 design conference for students. Emilee’s poster will be printed and distributed throughout the Baltimore area.

“This design expresses the relationship that ink and pixels has in design. I used a process of printing and scanning techniques to distort a print of my original graphic. This way it passed through a series of steps from print, to screen, and back to print. We live in an exciting time when ink and pixels can have a beautiful co-dependence.”

-Emilee Hunt for AIGA Baltimore (Source)

Read AIGA Baltimore’s original blog post on Emilee’s win here.

Learn more about Ink/Pixles 2012 design conference here.

Congratulations Emilee!

This year’s Week of Design will consist of four design professionals including three authors, starting with Todd Miller of the Archer Group.

The week will start of with Todd Miller on Tuesday, February 14.

Todd Miller is a Principal and Managing Partner of The Archer Group. The Archer Group’s clients include many national brands including Wawa, Herr’s, and Chase bank.
www.archer-group.com

Event starts at 6:00pm in McComsey Hall’s Ford Atrium and is open to the public.

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The Week of Design will continue on Thursday, February 16 will three speakers visiting via Skype.

Though these events will occur during class, in Breidenstine Room 206, they are open to all.
Questions? Contact jpannafino@millersville.edu

9:30am
Brad Guigar, author of How to Make Web Comics
“Web comics and Entrepreneurship on the Web”
www.webcomics.com

12:00 noon
Ellen Lupton, author of Graphic Design Thinking
“Brainstorming for Design and Creative Problem Solving”
www.elupton.com
www.thinkingwithtype.com

3:00pm
Patrick McNeil, author of The Web Designer’s Idea Books
“How Technology helps create visually stunning design: 3 case studies”
www.thewebdesignersideabook.com
www.howinteractivedesign.com

MU Design students visited 3 Reading-area design studios in January 2012 including LaunchDM, Partners Design, Inc. and William Fox Munroe. Thank you too all the studios for the great opportunity! Don’t forget to check out their websites.

LaunchDM
Wyomissing, PA
launchdm.com
Clients Include: 3M, Lego, Cisco Systems

Partners Design Inc.
Bernville PA
partnersdesign.net
Clients Include: Boscovs, Berks Hot Dogs, Reading Phillies

William Fox Munroe
Shillington, PA
wfoxm.com
Clients Include: The Hershey Company, Armstrong World Industries, Tyson Foods

Art and design students at Millersville won four of six awards at the Design for Development competition, held in Washington, D.C., on October 31. This nationwide competition, which was sponsored by the Roots for Development Project, an organization that helps impoverished communities in Haiti obtain resources to manage their own development, received more than 100 applicants.

Art and design student competition winners

Millersville University juniors Rachael Pearson and Lauren Ricapito took first and second place respectively in the student category and senior Erin Good and sophomore Brianna Piccari received first and second place respectively in the Pep La award category, which is Haitian Creole for “the people.” First place winners received a $1,000 cash prize; second place winners received $500. Winners for the Pep La award were chosen by a Facebook voting competition held prior to the event.

Nancy Mata, art and design, asked 22 students in her illustration course to create designs to submit to the competition that reflected Roots’ mission. The six winning designs will be printed on eco-friendly tote bags and sold at Whole Food stores throughout the Washington, D.C., area, as well as online, at Roots of Development website, for $20. Roots will donate proceeds from bag sales to Haiti.

The four designs created by Millersville students varied with bright and dark colors, helping hands, unique stenciling and phrases written in Haitian.

The Roots of Development Project promotes a different approach to rural development by facilitating a process in which they listen to assorted community voices, build on the natural strength of each and entire community-driven projects that lead to a more sustainable future.

For more information on the competition, visit Roots of Development website.

Article Source: Millersville University Exchange Dec. 21, 2011

Several Millersville Univerity design students are finalists in the Roots of Development design competition. Visit the Roots of Development Facebook page and view the “Pep La Design Competition Category” photo album to vote for your favorites! Vote simply by clicking “like” on your favorite photo. You may vote for as many designs as you like, but can only vote for each one once.

VOTE on the Roots of Development Facebook
Voting is now closed.

More on the Roots of Development organization: http://www.rootsofdevelopment.org/

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