Colab Meetings Spring 2010
Letterpress Workshop
Colab is a special interest student group created for Auburn University Graphic Design students. We meet once a week to learn and teach various design production tools, we also bring local designers to come and give presentations and workshops.
Kevin Smith, graphic designer and founder of CreateTwo gave a letterpress demo at his studio to more than 30 students on Wednesday, January 27th.
Kevin Smith is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication in the area of RTVF. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Kevin received his BFA in Graphic Design from Auburn University and his MFA in Communication Design from Louisiana Tech University. His work in design and photography has been exhibited in several regional juried shows, and has been published in CMYK magazine. He collaborates with clients across the country on a wide variety of projects including logos, brochures, posters, and websites. Kevin's research involves studying the aesthetic nature of letterpress and other analog methods of printing for communication.
Graphic Design Alumna Receives CADC Outstanding Alumni Award
Auburn University alumna Lea Friedman was selected by the Graphic Design Faculty to receive the Outstanding Alumni Award for 14 years of excellence in Design and for service to the program.
Lea Nichols Friedman is Design Director at Iconologic, a brand design firm in Atlanta. Her clients include Cooper Carry Architects, The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, Milliken Carpet, and Kilpatrick Stockton, LLC. She helps clients tell meaningful stories with design that illuminates ideas through both form and visual content.
Lea’s work has garnered wide industry recognition and seen frequent showings in major design competitions, including AIGA Design Archives, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, STEP, Mohawk Show, How and Print. Her work has been featured in periodicals such as CA, Critique and Graphis. She taught typography for many years at Atlanta’s Portfolio Center.
Lea lives in Atlanta with her husband Ben, Partner of Iconologic and the current President of AIGA Atlanta; son Andrew, age 7, the youngest national member of AIGA; and daughter Caroline, age 4, an aspiring artist.
Design Community of Faculty, Students and Alumni Key to Program Success
This year we are especially pleased to have three alumni, represented in the community section, scheduled to speak on campus in the Fall semester.
Design Interaction
November 7, 2008
Terry Slaughter, 1975
President and Senior Creative Officer of Slaughter Group, Birmingham AL
Past Speakers:
Elise Woodward Thomason, 2000
Senior Designer, Iconologic, Atlanta
Carrie Wallace Brown, 1998
Associate, SKY Design, Atlanta
CADC 100, Outstanding Women in Design
November 9, 2007
Laura Coyle, 1991,
Freelance Illustration, Atlanta, GA
Illustration Classes Collaborate with Montgomery Museum
This academic year Graphic Design majors from two illustration classes produced a series of vector design posters depicting streamlined products in context. Twelve select posters will be displayed for a week at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art during American Streamlined Design, the World of Tomorrow Symposium.
A Collaborative Future
Projects, currently in progress or in the planning stages, to be featured soon:
Graphic Design/Industrial Design,
Designing Green
Graphic Design & Alabama Secretary of State
Motor Voter Poster
Graphic Design/ College of Liberal Arts
'09 Film Festival Poster
Graphic Design Senior Project
Fall 2009 Online Gallery
“The creative individual wants to be a know it all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally
Each academic year the Graphic Design Program mounts three exhibits displayed in Biggin Hall Gallery. These include one Senior Project Exhibition each semester and the Annual Graphic Design Juried Student Exhibition in the Spring semester.
This gallery section shows examples of students’ work from recent exhibitions as well as accolades received by students in various regional, national and international competitions.