VCD winners @aigaseattle

Two seniors in Visual Communication Design, Jessica Katona and Derek Chan, participated in and won at this year’s AIGA Reality Check event on 30 April 2011. Katona’s Archeota, designed in Assistant Professor Annabelle Gould’s “Publication Design” course, won First Prize. It is a magazine documenting personal experiences through writing, photography, and objects. All the articles feature unconventional ways of archiving memories. Chan’s poster, titled Front Page Fingerprint: The New York Times, won Third Prize. It was created in an “Interaction Design” course taught by visiting instructor August de los Reyes. Seen at left, it visualizes the formal elements of the New York Times front page over one month. The proportion of white space, headline size and length, body copy, imagery, and type of color palette are shown for each day.