UAB Alum awarded Best in Show

UAB Design Alum, Chris Murphy, was awarded first place in the AIGA Birmingham 25th Anniversary Poster Competition. The theme of the competition was Design for Good. His poster, titled I NEED YOU was chosen as Best of Show by renowned illustrator/designer Luba Lukova. Lukova was in Birmingham for the opening of her show at the UAB Gallery and as guest juror for the AIGA event. Chris is currently working as a junior designer at Luckie Branding in Birmginham. Luckie created a special page to note Chris award.

UAB Design Graduate Crafts New Magazine

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.