Spring 2010 Senior Project Exhibition
April 15-21, 2010

The Spring 2010 Graphic Design Senior Project exhibition is to be held at Biggin Gallery, 101 Biggin Hall. The exhibition opens Thursday, April 15 runs through Wednesday, April 21. The public is invited to attend the opening reception which will occur just outside the gallery entrance on Friday, April 16, 4 p.m. through 6 p.m.

The exhibition features design work of the following 20 B.F.A. in Graphic Design Candidates:

Claire Davis, Blair Stapp, Kathryn Saunders, Jessica Ramspeck, Olivia Klein, Ashley Everett, Meagan Gibson, Ben Dicks, Maggie Suttle, Amanda Claybrook, Kayla Shults, Kelsey Premo, Sarah Pearson, Coleen Lyman, Ryan Lundy, John Hartley, Todd Duren, Erin Coffey, Angela Boroden, Erika  Bilbo.

Biggin Galleryhours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment (334-844-3483). Biggin Gallery is free of admission, wheelchair accessible and open to the public.

Graphic Design Alumna Receives CADC Outstanding Alumni Award

Leah Friedman

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

Collaboration

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

Fall 2009 Senior Project Show

“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.