April 2009
Awards + Recognition
- In response to one of the most devastating earthquakes in china’s history designers from around the world were called into action to create posters to commemorate and assist in relief efforts for the victims of the tragedy. Posters were juried and then became part of a traveling exhibition and later a book. All efforts raised much needed financial resources to help rebuild from the devastation. This poster designed by Full-time Faculty member Richard Zeid has since been included in STA Chicago Design Archive and has received an award from the American Graphic Design & Advertising for its design excellence.
Richard Zeid also has a logo designed for the Keating Group which will be included in the Master Library series. A sister series of the respected LogoLounge book series, the new Master Library books will bring plenty of exemplary logo design work from creatives around the world. Each book in the Master Library series will focus on a very specific logo design category. Categories include: Initials & Crests, Typography, People, Animals, Birds and Mythology, Shapes and Symbols, Nature and Food, Arts and Culture (including transportation, sports and architecture).
- The Earth Day poster competition sponsored by Columbia College Chicago's Recycling Services has chosen their winners!
The First Place prize went to A+D student Elsa Anderson.
Honorable mentions went to:
Michael Thies
Autumn Schultz
Kristina Wolter
Rebecca Shaughnessy
Kelly Messner
- Congratulations are in order for three of Jim Lienhart's students, Hazar Alkhawaja, Yuuka Yonemura, and Chris Hamilton, for having their work selected and featured in the recently released Graphis New Talent Annual 2009. The New Talent Annual showcases the year's best student Design, Photography, and Advertising work from around the globe.
- Additionally, A+D faculty Richard Zeid, Darch Clampitt and Jim
Linehart served as the selection committee to pick a select group of
A+D students to participate in the Art Directors Club Student Portfolio
Review.
The selected students for Graphic Design:
Jason Frohlichstein
Brett Harmon
Kim McGuire
Apollo Baldoz
The selected students for Advertising Art Direction:
Vaiva Rimeika
Ashley Benke
Michael Thies
Susan Grace
General News + Announcements
- Industry of the Ordinary (full-time faculty member Adam Brooks and adjunct faculty member Mathew Wilson) have been invited to produce a new work for the grand opening of the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago on May 15. They are the only US-based artists so invited.
- Full-time faculty member Marlene Lipinski has been nominated and elected to serve on the board of directors of the national organization called Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE). She will serve as the FATE representative to the Mid-America College Art Association and be a full voting member of the FATE board.
- Kirk Irwin, architect and Part-time faculty member, has been elected as a Program Site Visitor by the Board of Directors of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. He will participate in the evaluation of curriculum, administrative support, and student outcomes for Interior Design programs in the US and Canada.
- Part-time faculty member Marilyn Propp received a 2009 Community Arts Assistance Program grant, from the City of Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
- Full-time faculty members Tao Huang and Kevin Henry had papers accepted to the MX Design Conference devoted to sustainability. Their two joint paper proposals concerned:
1. the new semantics of sustainable design and
2. an overview of the on-going bike culture project through the product design concentration
- Kevin Henry was included in the latest Whitewalls publication edited by Adelheid Mers, Useful Pictures, which is devoted to the issue of mapping. His contribution, "The Dialectical Seed", is an attempt to map a complex issues and its multiple intersections in visual ways- specifically around the issue of sustainbility.
Kevin was also recently invited to participate in a round table discussion with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and local technologists, journalists, city politicians and policy makers, open source enthusiasts, etc. to discuss the future of information gathering and sharing. The event was sponsored and hosted by the MacArthur Foundation.
Sections of Kevin's upcoming book on design visualization (Laurence King publishers) will be on display at the London Book Fair in late April. The book is scheduled for completion this summer. He also has a project featured in Ellen Lupton's new book Designing With Materials due out shortly
Exhibitions + Announcements
- HungryMan Gallery presents "Western", the interdisciplinary works of Chicago artist and A+D full-time staff member Jim Zimpel. His sculptures and new media works reference the remnants and romanticism of American frontier culture through the lens of social fiction ranging from Hollywood movies to folklore. The works are a product of assumptions and a mass media understanding of the world. They function in realm of the seemingly authentic, the regulated imaginary, and the mundane grandiose. The opening reception is this Friday, April 17, from 6-11 pm.
- Part-time faculty member Nikki Renee Anderson received a part-time faculty development grant from Columbia College Chicago and a Governor's International Exchange Grant from the Illinois Arts Council for shipping and travel to an exhibition that she will participate in this summer called the 56th Premio Faenza Competition at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy. The exhibition will run from June 27 - September 27, 2009.
Nikki is also currently part of the 2009 NCECA Biennial at the Ceramics Research Center at the Arizona State University Art Museum. This show is a juried competition that is held in conjunction with the 43rd NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) Conference. This exhibition will run from March 21 - May 30, 2009.
- Part-time faculty member Dan S. Wang will be participating as one of two invited foreign artists in the sprawling urban arts festival SOHO in Ottakring, from May 16-31, in Vienna, Austria. He was awarded a Columbia College Chicago Part-time Faculty Development Grant in support of the project.
- Part-time faculty member Marilyn Propp had a solo show entitled "Journeys" at St. James Cathedral, Chicago, March and April 2009. Eight horizontal 4-paneled paintings were installed on either side of the nave, moving toward the altar.
- Full-time Product Design faculty member Tao Huang's photography piece "Lakeshore Riders" was accepted by A Lens on Human|Nature II: Photo Show, which will run from April 9th through Manifest in the Faculty Center, 8th floor, 600 S. Michigan Ave. This show of faculty and staff work is organized by the Critical Encounter task force and will offer reflection, inspiration and action within the natural world.
- Part-time Fine Art faculty member Scott Anderson is having his first one-person exhibition in NYC at Stux Gallery, May 7th through June 13. There will be a catalog produced in conjunction with Kavi Gupta Gallery to accompany the show, which includes an interview conducted by Christopher Cook, Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
- For one of his sabbatical projects, Full-time Fine Art faculty member Mario Castillo will open to the public his new East Side studio for two days for an exhibit on Perceptualism (other days open by appointment until May 4, 2009).