SIGDDesignNotes

School of Industrialand Graphic Design (SIGD)

Spring 2020

Mark Your Calendars for Fall 2020 (COVID-19 permitting)

42nd Design Interaction SpeakersAngela Stiff, Copperwing Design

Adam Williams, IBM Bluemix GarageFriday 25 September

9:00 AM, Auditorium Space AU Student Activities Center

SIGD Advisory Council MeetingFriday 25 September

9:00 AM, Auditorium SpaceAU Student Activities Center

SIGD Cookout Lunch12:00 Noon, Wallace Lawn

CADC Design Day BanquetAdvisory Council Invited

Friday 25 September 6:00 PM, Auditorium Space

AU Student Activities Center

Auburn Home Coming FootballAuburn vs Southern Mississippi

Saturday 26 September CADC Tailgate Tent #42

Saturdays 3 hours prior to kickoff

Graphic Design Senior Project ShowWallace Hall Rooms 116-118Tues thru Sat 8-12 December

For details on all SIGD events call 334-844-2364

Wallace Hall

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After moving to COVID-19 distance learning the faculty developed a project addressing current circumstances. The “Here We Are!” project challenged students to think about communicating use of a product intuitively. In addition to generating interesting ideas, this provided relevant outlet to the pandemic for all. Jacob Hawk designed the Budi Wearable Hand Sanitizer Dispenser.

Jerrod Windham’s 3rd year studio focused on design of mechanical toys. The studio project is loosely based on a vintage mechanical toy project run by Tin-Man Lau in a model making class prior to the transition from the quarter system to the semester system. It was also heavily influenced by the work of John Morgan. The 3-year-old cohort from the AU Early Learning Center visited the studio for a user group analysis.

A panel of Auburn’s most admired design professors: Jennifer Smith (ENVS), Kelly Bryant (GDES), Anna Ruth Gatlin (INDS,) Matt Hall (ARCH), David Hill (LAND), and Ben Bush (INDD) were assembled by Ben to discuss pedagogy, student critiques and the ideal studio culture. See the video at https://tinyurl.com/y8c9wycm

The workshop “Play and Storytelling: Taking the ‘Not Serious’, Very Seriously” was presented by Ben Bush at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH.

Ben also exhibited a sample of paper craft models from his INDD Computer class. The models use a combination of Rhino 3D, Pepakura, and Adobe Illustrator.

In April, Shea Tillman began to focus on shifting to remote teaching for the INDD Summer Foundations Studio. This intensive gateway course teaches students how to visualize concepts through the Technical Drawing, Perspective Sketching, and Presentation Rendering modules. In addition to faculty adjustments being planned for teaching and student feedback mechanisms, students will be completing over 100 drawing assignments from home.

To facilitate, David Gowan and Robert Capps fabricated mini-drafting boards custom-sized for the paper used, and J&M Bookstore supplied tools and materials for the Technical Drawing module. INDD faculty packaged 65 kits to ship to students around the country (and internationally). Students are now setting up and will be working in their own ‘home studios,’ while taking the first step toward their design careers.

Students in Ross Heck’s GDES 1210 Foundations Design I studio developed a series of alternating patterns using various analogous color schemes. See below pattern developed by Morgan Taylor.

Forty-seven students from Mobile’s Davidson High School’s Engineering Pathways Integrated Curriculum program collaborated with INDD faculty and students at the MFS under direction of Randy Bartlett. The students designed and built structural cardboard chair prototypes, accomplished during a one-day visit.

Ben Bush’s studio worked with Beretta firearms to develop new products for the existing A300 Outlander series. The project addressed areas of shotgun fit, training, and safety for smaller framed users. Students attended the industry’s largest expo in the world, “ShotShow 2020” in Las Vegas.

Hewlett Packards’ Bart Massee collaborated with Joyce Thomas’s studio to address print experiences & solutions from the perspective of a Gen Z user. Students developed a range of progressive personal memory photo printers bringing to life an ecosystem and design identity for the next generation HP Lifestyle products. Given the tumultuous off campus transition, HP was quite satisfied with the outcome. Much was accomplished through studio-based Zoom meetings.

Analogous Colors-Morgan Taylor

Beretta studio at a local shotgun range

Courtney Windham’s Intro to Graphic Design studio designed an identity/logo for the Auburn University Early Learning Center (AUELC). Students toured AUELC and interviewed staff to get insight into the history, future and needs of the program and how that may be depicted. Grace Halley’s design was selected.

In January David Smith traveled with Building Science and AU Outreach Global personnel to explore opportunity in Sekondi, Ghana, West Africa. The investigation was supported through a grant and the Outreach office. David’s objective was to explore potential for information graphic applications to a medical clinic. The Auburn team dined with the mayor of Sekondi to prioritize the team’s focus.

If you would like a copy of DesignNotes send us a name and complete mailing address. This newsletter can be found at www.cadc.auburn.edu/design/. Contact Sylvia Jackson at 334-844-2364 or Clark Lundell at lundece@auburn.edu for information.

Grace Halley’s AUELC logo

Davidson High School + MFS collaboration

AU Team with Sekondi mayor and David Smith left

User Group Analysis with Jerrod Windham

Drawing kit assembly Drawing kit shipping

Jacob Hawks’ wearable hand sanitizer

HP Zoom review

The Spring 2020 Convocation hosted Ben Friedman, Director of IMBIBE, Atlanta based brand design + digital realities firm. Ben did a presentation on augmented reality. Lt. Keith Walton, Auburn Campus Safety. Keith did a presentation on campus emergency response strategies.

SIGD recognized Studio Prize winners from spring + fall semesters 2019. These students provide performance and leadership in a studio environment. The nominating faculty - students are listed.Spring 2019Britnell- Cayman FrederickArnold- Drew ApplegateBartlett- Ledong ChenBush- Katherine KoonsTzeng- Steven GiddensTillman- Noah StewartFinkel- Ethan SmithBryant- Chancy CannonWang- Caitlyn MartinFall 2019Bartlett- Collin BurneyBartlett- Noah StewartBartlett- Evelyn KaestnerLay- Stevens GiddenLay- Cam HolmesTzeng- Derek TuckerTzeng- Katherine KoonsThomas- Zhengxian LiBush- Micah RobinsonArnold- Roshani TrivediBritnell- Sara MasaschiThomas- D. HollingsworthC.Windham- Brooke LindseyHerbert- Sarah PappasC.Windham- Paulina ArroyoBryant- Lane MullinsDunlop- Catherine JohnsonSmith- S. McDonald

HONORS

Ben Friedman Lt. Keith Walton

Keith Medley, one-time Director of Engineering for Gibson Guitars has been appointed a SIGD Professor of Practice. This is a renewable, limited term AU faculty appointment. Keith has traveled from Nashville, TN and spent many hours over the last year mentoring and consulting with student’s in the development of their guitar-based products as part of Rich Britnell’s Guitar Studio “Frethaus”.

Student Recognition: Jay, Mia, Vini Nathan family scholarship-INDD 2nd-3rd year (Gabriella Lascari), Mike Rogers scholarship-INDD 3rd year (Katherine Koons), William Dunlop scholarship-GDES (Ethan Smith), Outstanding International students: MIND- (Qiang Qi), INDD- (Ledong Chen) also the 2020 IDSA Merit Award winner.

GDUSA compiled a list of top favorite institutions that prepare students to work in the profession, based on objective and subjective factors, including decades long relationships with designers, students, recruiters, and educators. The reach is national. The theme is practical. SIGD’s

Graphic Design program was included in the GDUSA listing published in GDUSA’s March/April 2020 print edition. See link: http://gdusa.com/features/top-design-schools/highest-honors-2020-top-art-design-schools?fbclid=IwAR3BnMfaikY7Lrjf7amTmmO79wRxCHu2C_4Ni09hsfOEgveJN2kJ6hLpf30

One of the SIGD generated projects featured in this spring’s Tiger Giving Day was a collaboration between PlayCore, Tin Man Lau’s design studio and the Auburn Research Park. This effort focused on design of collaborative spaces. See link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosvT-GNJLo&feature=youtu.be

Carlton Nell was awarded a South Arts State Fellowship, selected by a national panel to receive $5,000 to further his work. https://www.southarts.org/individual-artists/southern-prize-artist-fellowships/2020-southern-prize-state-fellows/

An Auburn University 2020 Outstanding ePortfolio Award was presented to GDES student Jake Martin. View Jake’s portfolio: https://www.jakemartindesigns.com/

Lionel Ferreira of Ferreira Design Co. was guest juror for this year’s Graphic Design Juried Student Show. Atlanta designer Ferreira spent twenty-five years creating award-winning print, digital, environmental and product design. His client list includes adidas, AXOR, CARVART, Chandra, Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, French Paper, Neenah Paper, Tandus Centiva and tvsdesign. A GDES graduate, Lionel and wife Laura, an APLA interior design graduate, collaborator, and space planner both serve on SIGD’s Advisory Council.

The Juried Show was displayed at AU’s Gogue Performing Arts Center (GPAC) and managed by Wei Wang. The show remains up until mid-summer. There were eleven categories and 21 awards, including Best of Show. Graduating senior, Rebecca Riemersma, Marietta, GA took Best of Show and the Publication Award with her book “Les Miserables”. Other first place winners include: Jackson Durkee won the Typography, Intro to Design and Type+Processes Awards; graduating senior Anna Porter won Identity; Saber Paustian

won Illustration; graduating senior Gibeom Lee won the Overall Interactive Award; Lauren Saravanja won Package Design; and graduating senior Emily Perino won Best Poster. See Juried Show link: https://cadc.auburn.edu/spring-juried-show/

INDD grad student Elizabeth Keller had four submissions to the Auburn Circle, a student art + literature magazine, accepted. Three submissions selected came from Randy Bartlett’s Aesthetics class. Elizabeth also won 3rd Place in the AU Graduate Student Research Symposium for work done in Joyce Thomas’s Research / Case Studies course. This is the second year students in Joyce’s class won in this competition. Courtney Windham designed the Juried Show Poster. GDES faculty hung the first ever student show housed at GPAC.

Recent INDD graduate and undergraduate program alumni Justin Murphy and Ada Dolan created the startup “innovation MAD”. Their aeroponics technology startup was awarded $20,000 in the LIFTOFF Shoals Startup Competition. See detail at: https://www.timesdaily.com/news/local/florence-company-focuses-on-vertical-farming/article_d90f594f-817a-58c3-a18b-425e4c6cb60d.html

20 GDES graduating seniors participated in Robert Finkel’s virtual Senior Project studio. See examples of Michell Mayhall’s project Beeline Poetry Festival with associated collateral below.

GDES students pick up accolades in national design competitions elevating the program’s status among peers and the profession. In the Mississippi State University (MSU) GLITCH Competition Jake Martin, was 1st Runner Up for Interactive category and Michelle Mayhall 2nd Runner Up for Advertising category. In Creative Quarterly 59, Sydney Floyd and Jackson Durkee were both selected as runners-up. Six students were accepted in the Graphic Design USA Packaging Awards: Anna Claire White, Bailey Matthews, Jake Martin, Gurden Smith, Anna Porter, Madison Elrod. In the Graphis New Talent 2020 competition Jackson Glass received a Silver and Xuan He, Brooke Lindsay, Kendall Franklin, Miracle Dorsett were listed as honorable mention.

Robert Finkel’s Pine Hill Haints concert poster for Standard Deluxe, Waverly, AL was runner-up in Creative Quarterly 59. His poster campaign for the Alabama’s Gulf State Park won honorable mention in the 13th Annual International Design Awards. https://idesignawards.com/winners/zoom.php?eid=9-26311-19

SIGD technical staff Chad Bailey, David Gowan, Robert Capps and numerous community volunteers have produced more than 11,400 cloth face mask parts associated with a university and community-wide COVID-19 endeavor managed through the AU Outreach Office. https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2020/04/091044-outreach-covid19-masks.php

Jerrod Windham fabricated at home and Chad Bailey used our SIGD facilities to 3D print frames for Prusa Protective Face Shields to be used at the East Alabama Medical Center. Ben Bush also participated in this endeavor. David Gowan, Chad Bailey and Robert Capps built molds for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) face shields and mask components. The Mobile Futures Studio’s (MFS) Zach Kohrman is developing a respirator that is autoclave tolerant and can be used and cleaned through multiple cycles.

Bill Dunlop’s GDES1220 studio instituted two new projects suited for remote learning. The results were surprising in the high level of crafting and understanding by the students. One of the substitute projects involved a two-dimensional solution using the concept of contrast. This was followed by a 3-dimensional version of contrast using an all-white solution

Chris Arnold has been on Professional Improvement leave developing contacts with NASA at their Marshal, Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers.

PRADCO Outdoor Brands, Birmingham, largest hunting + fishing brands company in the world, returned for a 2nd industry sponsored project with Randy Bartlett’s 3rd year studio. They collaborated to redesign and develop a Gravity Deer Feeder for the Moultrie Feeder product line. Derrick Duke, Moultrie Feeder Product Manager, worked with 14 students in Randy’s studio to develop new concepts. Most of the students had never hunted. This provided opportunity for Moultrie to explore a “new” market / user group.

Zach Kohrman, MFS, assisted in developing computer-generated models for final deliverables. PRADCO required that solutions be fabricated using blow molding processes. This provided “real-world” design constraints. The MFS held classes in their space at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center. David Gowan, Chad Bailey, Zach Kohrman and Randy Bartlett constructed this space. MFS is an INDD off-campus instructional site. 3rd year + grad students work at MFS for a semester.

Shu-Wen Tzeng collaborated with Shea Tillman and Rusty Lay in a 2nd year 3D Principles studio. The language of design was introduced. Students analyzed relationships between product appearance, function, utility, convenience, safety, maintenance and sustainability through creation of artifacts. See image below featuring students analyzing the internal structure of a hand-mixer for the Inside Out Design Project. Students left to right: Owen Croyle, Park Van Dyke, Tori Eikinas, Griffin Walker, Jacob Hawk, and Laura Horton.

Jackson Durkee’s TypeBook

NEWS

GPAC Install team: Finkel, Herbert, Smith, Nell, Heck

Gulf State Park - Finkel

Mayhall’s Beeline Poetry

Gowan, Capps, Claire Wilson (volunteer), Bailey

Inside Out Project

Studio Prize Winners Spring / Fall 2019

Keith Medley

Courtney Windham poster

GDES faculty install at GPAC

Murphy and Dolan with award check

Various SIGD fabricated PPE components

2D contrast, Catherine Moore

3D contrast, Emma Young

Mobile Futures Studio (MFS)

PRADCO Deer Feeder