UAB Graphic Design

Design Students Win 2012 Addys

2012-02-04T21:44:00.000-05:00

UAB Graphic Design Students were awarded 12 Student Addy awards at the 2012 Addys. Design student Jin Lee Chung was awarded the Best of Show for student work.

Best of Show - Student

• Jin Lee Chung

Gold - Student

• Alyssa Mitchell, Split Milk Packaging
• Jin Lee Chung, "Alabama Eats" Snack Chips Packaging
• Brandi Wilson-Sides, Unesco Monarch Butterfly Reserve Promotional Material
• Mat Powell, Ruffner Mountain Run Poster

Silver - Student

• Emily Kerley, Alabama Snack packaging
• Brittany Fox, OLIO, Olive Oil Package Design
• Jin Lee Chung, Emily Kerley, Jennifer Waycaster, Group Project - Cahaba River Society Brochure
• Samantha Gibbons, Amy Clark, Chasity Simms, Group Project - Cahaba River Society Brochure
• Daniel Twieg, The Consigliere, Poster
• Mat Powell, Surviving a Science Fiction Film, Booklet
• Alyssa Mitchell, Generating Bright Ideas, Self Promo

Brandi Wilson-Sides BFA Exhibition

2011-12-02T13:05:00.000-05:00

UAB Design graduate Brandi Wilson-Sides' BFA exhibition is on display from November 21 thru December 19, at the UAB Mervyn-Sterne Library. The BFA work is on display in the first floor display cases.

"This exhibition features three campaigns based on companies that represent standards that I find admirable and unique," said Brandi. Each campaign contains a business system, a product, and product packaging. You can see all three of these campaigns as well as a diagram and examples of the process used to create them.

Design Team Project chosen by CRS

2011-11-26T14:23:00.000-05:00

The Cahaba River Society has chosen team H2O's brochure campaign design to use as their official marketing materials. Monica Carmichael of the CRS said it had been a very hard decision based on the outstanding quality of the work they received. The final brochures are in editing now and will go into production at Vulcan Materials later this month. Congratulations to team H2O.

H2O

Members: Daniel Twieg, Lindsay Warner, Jasmine Gooden

See the other teams and designs after the jump:

NOSTALGIA

Members: Amy Clark, Samantha Gibbons

GO WITH THE FLOW

Members: Emily Kerley, Jin Chung, Jen Waycaster

EXPERIENCE NATURE

Members: Kristen Sims, Donna Plath, Gary Milton

COME TOGETHER

Members: Meghan Burke, Tim Cordts, Anna McDavid

GET OUT AND GO!

Members: Christina Daniels, Daniel Williams

EXPLORE. RESTORE.

Members: Miranda Hart, Chris Seagle

CONNECT

Members: Cary Marks, Umair Khan, Alec Dixon

You Go Girl(s) and Guys.

2011-11-17T14:39:00.019-05:00

Where are they now? UAB Graphic Design graduates:
• Allison Raines is freelancing at Hothead Studios for Georgia Pacific and Alcan Cable.
• Cana Grooms joined Slaughter Group as a junior designer.
• Jacinta Elliot joined designFORMS Architectural firm as graphic designer.
• Brandi Wilson-Sides joined Brownell Travel.
• Scott Dodge joined Cummings Creative Group.
• Courtney Kyle is Art Director at Hoffman Media for Stitch Craft Create magazine.
• Natalie Smith is at Loudhailer New Zealand.
• Zack Williams is freelancing in Venice, CA for TBWA/Chiat/Day, Deutsch, Innerspin.

• Liz Springer is freelancing in B'ham for UAB's Alys Stephens Center and PurMotion.
• Alan Heiman is freelancing for Think+, working on Barber Motors Sports stuff.

Design Students Present to Local Agencies

2011-11-11T10:59:00.001-05:00

On Thursday, November 11th, UAB's Intermediate Graphic Design students presented their final work for the Cahaba River Society to Monica Carmichael and Gordon Black of the Society. The students worked in teams of 2/3 for the past 3 weeks, visiting the Cahaba river, taking photos and developing their own visual narrative about this wonderful Alabama resource.

Matt Leavell from the Alabama Engine and Dan Monroe from Cayenne Creative were also part of the group listening to presentations and offering feedback. The Society will choose a direction form the eight options and work with that team to finalize the project.

Previously, students had present the work to David McMath at Intermark and Sara Cannon and Dan Gavin from Scout for in-process feedback.

Watch for more info as the project develops.

Design Grad Chosen for DoD Design

2011-11-01T12:11:00.001-04:00

UAB graphic design graduate Christopher Murphy's poster design was chosen as the winning entry for the Birmingham Day of the Dead festival for 2011. The poster and children's tees will be available at the festival.

Dia de los Muertos #9 will be held at the old Bare Hands gallery location in downtown Birmingham. Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 5pm - 10pm.

For more information go to barehandsinc.org or on facebook -

Dia de los Muertos.

UAB Art Faculty to Show at the GMA

2011-11-01T10:43:00.000-04:00

UAB art faculty will show recent work at the Gadsden Museum of Art's Alabama's Best invitational art exhibition. Alabama's Best is on display from November 1st to December 31st, with an opening on November 20th. UAB artists featured include: Gary Chapman, Sonja Reiger, Jim Alexander, Erin Wright, John Powers, Doug Baulos, Christopher Lowther, and Doug Barrett.

The goal of the Gadsden Museum of Art is to support and maintain a museum of local history and to support and maintain a museum dedicated to Southern artists. The museum is open Monday - Saturday from 10am - 4pm.

UAB Designer Teas featured on Project Splash

2011-10-26T17:25:00.000-04:00

One of UAB's Introduction to Graphic Design projects is featured on Project Splash this month. The project titled, "Designer Teas," is an introductory project where design students are paired with historic designers as a way to interact with and build their own aesthetic. Student research other designers such as, El Lissitsky, Art Chantry, David Carson, Paul Rand, Lester Beall, etc., and use there work as a collaborative spring board to inspire their own work.

The project also requires considering the work in 3D and building a box from a template, using those all important craft skills!

UAB Designs for Non-Profit

2011-10-19T21:49:00.000-04:00

UAB design students are currently working with the Cahaba River Society on a project to create 3 new brochures that support the mission of the local non-profit. The CRS is an organization who's missions is, "to restore and protect the Cahaba River watershed and its rich diversity of life." Students will spend the next 4 weeks, exploring the river, doing research on the rich plant and animal life and working on designing a brochure system that tells the unique story of this wonderful resource.

The project is being facilitated by Matt Leavell at Alabama Engine.

UAB Design Graduate Crafts New Magazine

2011-10-10T20:45:00.002-04:00

UAB Design student graduate, Courtney Kyle spent the last three months art directing, creating and crafting her first major publication. The premier issue of the craft magazine "Stitch, Craft, Create" hits the newsstand this month with 130 pages of fantastic crafts and holiday ideas, all from right here in Alabama. Kyle worked on the magazine for Hoffman Media, LLC. an Alabama company. She lent her talents to typesetting and laying out pages as well as designing several of the craft projects herself. She was even responsible for creating directions for subscribers to follow to successfully create the crafts themselves. Courtney told us she loved all the hands-on opportunities that designing and creating a large-scale craft publication entails. On the newsstand October 18, 2011.

New Home for the UAB Art Department

2011-10-02T15:05:00.001-04:00

The UAB Department of Art and Art History will have a new home in the fall of 2013. The building (pictured) was designed by Los Angeles-based Randall Stout Architects. Randall served as Senior Associate to world-renowned architect Frank Gehry from 1989 to 1996 and, in 1993, started his own architecture firm.The firm has designed numerous noteworthy buildings both in Europe and here,including the new wing of the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Art Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke.

The new building will feature multiple gallery spaces and a unique metal exterior. Groundbreaking will begin over the winter holiday of 2011.

Design Students Packaging on Display

2011-09-28T15:15:00.002-04:00

Jin Chung, Jennifer Waycaster

UAB Graphic Design students recently completed a packaging project for ARS 350 Intermediate Design. Students were asked to create a design for a snack that references local Alabama culture, places and/or people. Finished projects can be seen on display in the main Department of Art and Art History hallway on the first floor of the UAB Humanities building. Students worked conceptually with the idea of southern culture, history and ideals to create a snack and the packaging imagery to support it.

UAB Design Student in the Big Apple!

2011-09-28T08:47:00.000-04:00

UAB Graphic Design student, Cana Grooms, spent the summer in the big apple interning with home design guru and bon vivant Jonathan Adler. She worked for 3 months on everything from basic patterns and color palettes to a redesign of the Adler product tags that will be used in all their stores. Talking about her experience Grooms said, "I was given tons of freedom. I would be given a basic idea of what the project was and the concept, and then allowed to ramble through designs and present the strongest ones at the end of the day." Cana was given free reign on many of the projects she touched, including the design of the 2011 Holiday Look Book. Talking about life in NYC, "Its crazy and wonderful at the same time, there is so much creative inspiration in the city. There is an energy that constantly renews your creative spirit."

Zach Williams Featured in Tom's Poster

2011-03-28T15:43:00.008-04:00

UAB Design graduate, Zach Williams, was featured in an in-store poster promo for Tom's shoes. Zach has been working as a design intern at Tom's in San Diego, California for the last few months. He has been creating printed visual for in-store promotions and "loving life in sunny Venice."

UAB Design Students Win Big at 2011 Addys!

2011-02-25T16:08:00.000-05:00

pictured: Alexandra, Elizabeth, Brittany, Alyssa

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - UAB graphic design faculty and students won 9 awards in several different categories on Thursday night at the 53rd Annual Birmingham Addy Awards. The event was held at the Alabama Theatre. Addys recognize excellence in advertising and graphic design. Three creative directors hailing from San Francisco, Denver and Chicago juried the work.

Assistant Professor, Douglas Barrett received 2 Silver place awards in the category Advertising for the Arts and Sciences for work done for the Department of Art and Art History.

Student awards are:

Alexandra Crawford, Student Best of Show
Alexandra Crawford, Gold, Student Editorial
Brittany Fox, Gold, Student Non-Traditional Advertising
Brittany Fox, Gold, Student Collateral
Alyssa Mitchell, Silver, Student Non-Traditional Advertising
Lindsey Griggs, Silver, Student Collateral
Elizabeth Springer, Silver, Student Collateral

Design Students win at AIGA Salon

2010-08-08T07:00:00.009-04:00

jacinta, alyssa, brandi, chris, doug

UAB Graphic Design students and professor took home several awards from the 2010 AIGA Birmingham Salon de Refuse. The Annual Salon was held at OMNI Studio in downtown Birmingham.

IDEO Workshop - Jemison Lecture Series

2010-04-06T16:27:00.008-04:00

Beau Bergeron of IDEO

IDEO Communication Designer, Beau Bergeron, spent 3 days lecturing, ideating, making, and remixing at UAB’s graphic design studios. His lecture, “How to Get Everything You Want out of School, Job Hunting and Life,” takes students on his own wild-ride to score the job of his dreams and live life by his own rules. Through his personal insight and experience, students learn to take control of their own design practice and future.

Using IDEO’s creative method of learn, look, ask, try–students brainstorm the idea of connecting a soda vending machine to cell phones and social networking. The session began with these words of wisdom, “No idea is too crazy, do not play it safe today!” Students worked, shouted and waved for 40 minutes, drawing out ideas on sticky notes. Beau worked the floor like a DJ at a party, shouting out “THANK YOU” and “REMIX IT!”

The workshop also featured a poster design session and a one-on-one portfolio review.

2009-12-19T18:35:00.000-05:00

Need some typographic inspiration? Great images of holiday typography. Check out the latest news from the type theory archives. ( http://www.typetheory.com/ )

UAB Students Tour Atlanta Studios

2009-12-02T10:00:00.000-05:00

On November 12th, members of the UAB graphic design program along with students from Samford University and Montevallo University spent the day touring Design Studios in Atlanta. Over 30 students participated in the tours. Students were also treated to a tour of MAC Paper's Design Center and were able to take home paper samples and promos. Above, students talk with Chris Miller of the Jones Group. The tour was a joint venture between the schools and the local AIGA Birmingham chapter. We wish to thank everyone who graciously gave time and effort: Mac Papers - Andrea Hill, Mohawk Papers - Rebecca Pilgrim, The Jones Group, Fletcher-Martin, Primal Screen, Unboundary and the AIGA Birmingham.

45 Beautifully Designed Book Covers

2009-09-24T10:50:00.000-04:00

The great people at well medicated have compiled their list of the 45 most beautifully designed book covers. Book cover design has come a long way in the last 25 years, thanks Chip Kidd !
Got to their site and check it out.

Adbusting in Berlin

2009-09-24T10:30:00.000-04:00

Great Photoshop Adbusting of a boring advertisement which you see everywhere in Berlin, Germany: Britney Spears, Leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera selling their albums. The adbusting was done by the FTW crew (Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy) and consists of overlaying the image with stickers from Adobe Photoshop’s interface panels. See all the photos...

I want!

2009-09-17T22:34:00.000-04:00

Yet another feature I must have on my own card! Local design student, letterpress owner and bon vivant Patrick Masterson showed me a sample of his latest work. The effect, called "edging" is done by stacking 200 cards together, then airbrushing the color, by hand, on the edges. Apparently the rage right now with the "in" crowd. It is really striking in person! I asked if there was anything stopping him from doing it in GOLD, and his answer.. in perfect Patrick tone "good taste?"

These are printed on Crane-Lettra, letterpress paper by Crane. http://www.cranepaper.com/lettra/home.html

IKEA's Type Troubles

2009-09-12T10:59:00.002-04:00

Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn't that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less sturdy, or that the Bibbi Snur duvet covers were any less colorful, or even that the names given to each of the company's 9,500 products were any less whimsical. No, what bothered Akerberg was the typeface. MORE>

Logo Trends 2009

2009-09-12T10:56:00.000-04:00

See the full story on logo lounge.

2009 Breakaway Brands, Landor Associates

2009-09-07T19:15:00.001-04:00

See the complete article at Landor.

Saffron Article on Brand Building

2009-09-07T18:49:00.001-04:00

Brands used to be a guarantee of good quality. A product that did what it said on the tin laid a foundation of trust between consumers and a product. The likes of Disney, Coke and Sony built their reputation on consistently delivering quality products. ‘Sophisticated’ marketing, advertising and tag lines followed much later. See the complete article at Saffron!

Saffron's New Identity for LITRO.

2009-09-07T18:46:00.002-04:00

Litro /

How can you succeed in the über-competitive European service station market? Powerful brands crave for our attention on European highways. Our challenge was to create an attractive brand to compete in the cut-throat market of gasoline distribution.

A clean slate is always a great place to start. And that was precisely our approach to this issue, a re-definition of the service station. Together, with our client Rompetrol (Romania’s challenger to incumbent Petrom) and Eight Inc. architects we have rethought the service station. The answer is Litro, a concept as simple and compelling as its name. See the complete article at Saffron!