SIGDDesignNotes

Spring 2014

Mark your calendars for this year’s

Design WorkshopSummer Camp

8-13 June 201413-18 July 2014

SIGD Alumni ReceptionFriday, 15 August, 6:00ish PM IDSA National Conference

Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas

SIGD Advisory Council MeetingThursday, 25 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 208

Design InteractionFriday, 26 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 107 and 111

cadc.auburn.edu/design

ing the 50th Anniversary of integration at Auburn. Students in Assistant Professor Keetje Kuipers’ Poetry of Southern Witness class wrote poems relating to the themes and issues regarding integration and Civil Rights. Assistant Professor Robert Finkel’s In-tro to Graphic Design students paired up with poetry students to visually interpret the poetry in the form of a broadside. The designer/poet pairs met and discussed the poems’ content. The designers then spent three weeks conceptualizing, sketching and designing the broadside for each poem. In total sixteen broadsides were created. At the final presentation, in the Library of Architecture, Design and Construction, each poet read their work, and the designer then talked about their process and design decisions. 

• Robert Finkel’s brochure/poster for Alabama Workshop[s] will be included the book Creative Anarchy, published by HOW books, featuring projects from around the world that push the traditional rules and norms of graphic design. Alabama Workshop[s] is a collaboration with Architecture Professor Sheri Schumacher. Robert also has two logos that have been published in the book, Design: Logo: An Explora-tion of Marvelous Marks, Insightful Essays, and Reveal-ing Reviews, published by Rockport Publishers. The book showcases over 300 eye-catching logo designs chosen by leading identity designers. 

• Professor Rich Britnell’s InSinkErator studio worked on their instant, near boiling hot water dispenser series. The focus was on new faucet designs and after-market coffee brewing attachments. InSinkErator President Tim Ferry and other executives traveled on their Falcon cor-porate jet from Racine, Wisconsin to Auburn to attend the final review. Studio participants were: Charlie Scott, Jonathan Ralleca, DeBrandon Willis, Anthony Parker, Seth Maddox, Cody Template, Savannah Durden, Phillip Ferentinos, Elene’ Weaver, Natalie Simpson, JC Waddell, Alex Romigh, Patrick Glenn, Rich Britnell.

• Four GDES students won American Package Design Awards from GDUSA. The winners were: Erin Al-bright - Alpine Market Trail Mix (Fall 2013 Directed Study with Courtney Windham). Lindsey Drennan - Bless Her Heart: Southern Chocolate (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Courtney Windham). Patrick Daugherty - English Breakfast Chocolate Bars (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Court-ney Windham). Adriana Lee - Feathered Friends Chocolate Company (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic De-sign with Robert Finkel). This competition celebrates well-designed graphics but also the power of design to advance the brand promise and forge an emotional connection with the buyer at the moment of truth. This year’s entries soared to 1,800, up 12 percent from last year, and a highly selective one-in-five are being recognized with an award. The winning pieces will appear in the GDUSA 2014 American Package Design Annual, on the website, and iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets and mobile devices.

• This spring Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng taught Anthropometry, Materials & Technology, and a Product Design Studio. She still managed to assist four graduate students with their thesis research and completion and served as committee chair for two of them. She also completed courses in the protection of human subjects’ curriculum through a CITI training program, one of the requirements for conducting human subjects’ research by the federal government. The completion of CITI training allows Shu-Wen to serve as a faculty advisor for any graduate student whose research involves human subjects. In addition to teaching lecture courses and guiding graduate stu-dents, Shu-Wen led an industry collaboration project with Jose Mendez of Char-Broil LLC. The goal of this project was to design innovative grill accessories that enhance end user experience and help Char-Broil elevate its brand apart from their competitors. The final project outcome included 30 innovative grill accessory designs, which were highly appreciated by the client. Some of the ideas may be incorporated into new product lines for Char-Broil LLC.

• Professor Kelly Bryant’s Theoretical Agency Philoso-phy Poster, developed last year, was recently accepted by an international book publisher, Denise Bosler LLC. www.bosler.com.  It is to be included in a final draft of the publication and may appear as a full page. This book goes beyond the “look” of the work - it delves into the design and creativity process as well. All associated text authored by Kelly will be credited to her.

• In the spring, Assistant Professor Lauren Weigel led a collaborative studio with Generac from Waukesha, Wisconsin. This was the fourth collaboration Auburn industrial design and Generac have worked on together. The final presentation was held at the Generac facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

• Lauren also co-chaired “Open Ground” with Associ-ate Professor Magdalena Garmaz, the program chair of Environmental Design. “Open Ground” is an annual, interdisciplinary forum that was designed specifically to bring students and thought leaders together to share ideas about design thinking and social entrepreneurship. There were a large number of industrial design students who attended. The event featured Blake Canterbury founder of beremedy and Dime Creative in Atlanta, Liz Ogbu, faculty member at UC Berkeley and IDEO.org fellow in Oakland, California, and Sara Williamson and Grant Brigham from Jones Valley Teaching Farm, Birmingham, Alabama.

• Professor Carlton Nell’s GDES 1110 Foundation Drawing Studio has been manipulating color paper to obtain the flat tonal quality often achieved only through acrylic painting. See examples below:

• Each spring semester, while Professor Randy Bartlett is briefly away managing the Ireland Program, professionals from Emerson Tool spend a week at SIGD. They partici-pate in numerous studio reviews with students in Randy’s class and cover the bases in his absence. This year newly-hired Emerson employee and AU/INDD grad Alex Wall, Industrial Designer, and Matt Williams, Senior Staff Engineer, participated in this valuable learning experience.

• Playcore’s Senior Vice President for Marketing Tom Norquist and his team spent a substantial amount of time working with Tin Man Lau’s studio to develop a new product line and strategy for the company. The final presentation was made in Fort Payne, Alabama to the company CEO and board members with great success.

• Professor Wei Wang has been developing relationships with various universities in China to promote a GDES summer study abroad program, which will bring Chinese students to Auburn. He also has developed a mobile phone application that will assist teachers in taking roll. The app should be launched within the next few months.

• Allison Braund, BFA 2013, successfully completed the first Industry Sponsored Graphic Design Senior Project in December and moved to NewYorkCity, where she is employed by Canopy Brand Group. Her first few months have had her working on Pepsi, Sierra Mist, KFC, Major League Baseball, Ruskova Vodka, and Biomet. This spring she was accepted to do graduate work in branding with NYU’s Integrated Marketing, Parsons’ Strategic Design

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Erin Albright’s Alpine Market Trail

Poet/Designer Team Broadsides

InSinkErator Studio

and Management, and SVA’s Masters in Branding. She will join the NYU program this Fall and be matched with a professional design strategist as a mentor for the first year.

• At this spring’s Senior Show, which for the first time was presented in Wallace Hall rooms 228-229, Caroline Col-lins was selected as the “A” Commended winner.

• Professor John Morgan is working on his largest research project to date. The mechanical sculpture when completed in early 2015 will function as a museum’s donation box . Morgan’s most recent automaton, Row Fish, is currently on display at the Mechanical Art and Design Museum in Stratford upon Avon in England.

• Graduation is a day that all our students look forward to and share with faculty, family and friends. Below are SIGD graduates at the CADC Reception before the morning graduation exercise in the new Arena: Marcus Crawford and Robin Parker, Aubie and Zach Kohrman.

Char-Broil Studio

Generac Studio, Jefferson, WI

Foundation Drawing Studio

Emerson Studio, Wall, Williams, center left.

Playcore studio design team

Allison Braund’s work with Nestles/Purina

Crawford, Parker Aubie, Kohrman

InSinkErator’s Ride

Caroline Collins’ “A” commended presentation

John Morgan’s Row Fish

SIGD hosted a number of guests this spring:

• During Spring break, Auburn Provost Tim Boosinger, VP and CFO Don Large, Legal Counsel Lee Armstrong and Special Assistant to the President, Bob McGinnis and wives participated in the SIGD Ireland Programs. They visited SIGD collaborating institutions at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In Dublin, they also visited Trinity College and the Irish Parliament. This year a record seven faculty and staff and 36 students participated in the SIGD Ireland programs. SIGD faculty/staff Randy Bartlett, Chris Arnold, Robert Finkel, Courtney Wind-ham, David Gowan, Chris Webb and Clark Lundell all participated and met with the Auburn executive group.

• Shea Tillman and six students were invited to participate in L*unchBox, a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary innovation workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Etienne, France. INDD students/faculty Will King, Jonathan Dunn, Elenè Weaver, Marcus Crawford,

Assistant Professor Shea Tillman, Vanessa Lee and Seth Maddox (see photo), worked on teams with students from Brunel University (London England), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) Ecole des Mines (Saint-Etienne, France) and Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne, France). Shea also led and facilitated two teams that included students from France, Italy, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia. These teams were tasked with generating, developing, and presenting concepts that addressed the challenge: “Imagine the Future of Retail Environments and Experiences.” Through a series of sequential design-thinking activities, each team produced future vision scenarios of a concept after generating more than one hundred original ideas. Student teams presented these concepts at the Citi of Design, an exhibition campus in Saint-Etienne. Associate Professor Shea Tillman has di-rected this program for two years and recently met with the Counsel General of France to discuss Auburn’s participation in this international initiative.

• Shea also began teaching the INDD 2230 Industrial Design History course to Second year students, and with Associate Professor Chris Arnold, exhibited Outside>In, a creative platform for integrating external inspiration into product form-giving at the 2014 Creative Showcase dur-ing Auburn University Research Week.

• On Tuesday, 2 April, SIGD participated in the reception and hosted a Wallace Hall tour for: Dr. M. Rajaram, Vice Chancellor, Dr. C. Chellappan, Dean, College of Engineering, Dr. Ranee Vedamuthu, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning from Anna University, one of the largest university systems in India.

• A contingent of Auburn, CADC, SIGD and College of Education representatives attended the 2014 Interna-tional Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education (IECHE) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city of five million people. More than 400 universities worldwide participated in this event to recruit students. Currently 83,000 students, fully supported by the Saudi government, study at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S. each year.

CADC was able to offer provisional acceptance to quali-fied individuals. The group from Auburn visited the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and made presentations at Al Faisal, Effat and Princess Nora Universities. Collaborative agree-ments are being established with these institutions.

• Senior Project Professor Ross Heck organized a contin-gent of designers from the new IBM Innovation Labora-tory in Austin, Texas to visit SIGD, make a presentation and view the GDES Senior Show. Russ Wilson- Design Executive, Jeff Noble-Operations Manager and Bethany Heck-Art Director met and interviewed students to dis-cuss their career objectives, interview strategies and present opportunities at the new IBM Innovation Lab.

• The Mobile Airport Authority’s Executive Director Roger Wehner and Real Estate Manager Carleen Stout-Clark toured SIGD. They presented a proposal regarding development of aerospace resources in and around the new AirBus facility at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama. They feel SIGD’s participation in this emerging resource could positively impact the innovation / technol-ogy community at this location.

• Tau Sigma Delta is the only national scholastic honorary society dedicated exclusively to the recognition of students in the design disciplines. At the renewed second annual design honorary induction, CADC Dean Vini Nathan was awarded the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. She was instrumental in encouraging the reinstatement of the Auburn Alpha Theta Chapter, which was founded in 1978. BSCI School Head Richard Burt was kind enough to allow the induction luncheon to take place in the Gorrie Center conference room. Chapter President and Land-scape Architecture Graduate Student, Kenneth “Dale” Speetjens, presented Vini with the Silver Medal and agreed to continue in his role into next year. INDD students Matt Cooper and Eugene Williams volunteered to fill the posi-tions of chapter Vice President and Treasurer respectively.

• In February, the Alabama-Korea Educational Exchange Program (AKEEP) visited the Auburn campus and SIGD under the direction of CADC Associate Dean Bret Smith and CADC Recruiter Kristi Sandlin with SIGD UTM Chad Bailey. These students are primarily juniors visiting our campus through Jenn Mason and the Auburn Office of International Programs. They were from various high schools throughout Korea.

• As part of our annual Designing Green/Juried Show coordinated events, guest speaker Tiffany Threadgould, Chief Design Junky from Terracycle, Inc. Trenton, New Jersey, made the Designing Green Competition kickoff presentation. This event was managed by Associate Professor Jerrod Windham. Tiffany challenged students to upcycle leather, fabric remnants and wine bottle corks

into new products. Student teams developed a range of solutions, within the 24-hour constraints of the competi-tion, of which the design for a doggie back pack won first place. Auburn President Jay Gogue and VP/CFO Don Large participated in Tiffany’s kickoff presentation.

• At our bi-annual SIGD Advisory Council meetings, we of-ten divide up the council so focus can be placed on the specific disciplines of GDES or INDD. This spring the INDD coun-cil members viewed the INDD display in the Student Center and GDES members had a focused discussion on the GDES design foundations sequence with Professor John Morgan.

• Assistant Professor Courtney Windham designed the poster celebrating these two coordinated events. Associate Professor Samantha Lawrie worked with Atlanta’s Portfolio Center Director Hank Richardson to serve as juror for the spring Juried Show. Proctor & Gamble’s Tracy Murchison viewed the student work presented at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center and interacted with GDES faculty and students. Featured speakers for the two events received SIGD Recognition Awards, designed and fabricated by As-sociate Professor Chris Arnold and Professor John Morgan.

• Visiting Instructor Bill Dunlop has been critical to the delivery of our graphic design foundations classes. Bill has a deep history both as an artist and art collector. In 2014 the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art ( JCSM) exhibited a portion of Bill’s collec-tion, which was documented through publication of an exhibition catalog. At the spring semester SIGD Convocation Bill agreed to be our guest speaker. SIGD faculty and students were impressed by the scope of his artistic work and range of his collection.

• As part of our Spring Semester Convocation, selected SIGD students from across all studio levels are identified for the contribution they make to our academic mission. These individuals are awarded SIGD Studio Prize Certificates. This spring’s awards went to the following students pictured below left to right: Emmanuel Favela, Kristen Harlin, Sara Hagale, Bryan Stubblefield, Jessi Chambliss, Patrick Murphy, Ann Gardener, Andrew Rentz.

• Laboratory Specialist Robert Capps has had a banner spring semester. He was selected to receive the Auburn University Spirit of Excellence Award and congratu-lated on this recognition by AU President Jay Gogue. SIGD Office Administrator Becky Boyd was recog-nized for her 20 years of service to Auburn University and was acknowledged at the final spring semester faculty / staff meeting for her accomplishment.

• The fine people at Madix Incorporated, an office / retail fixture manufacturer with 2.4 million square feet of manufacturing and storage space located in Alabama and Texas, assisted the SIGD office staff in developing designs for a new SIGD office suite. We thank INDD alumni Don Doyle and David Wilder of Madix for initiating this effort and Walter T Dowdle Madix Executive Vice President for approv-ing the fabrication and installation.

• There were a total of thirty-two applicants to the INDD graduate program this spring. Twelve of these students were offered admission this fall semester. Currently there are twenty-two graduate students in the program. This spring the one student (Re’Ann McCoy) in the ENVD post baccalaureate program was admitted to the graduate program and is pursu-ing her first graduate student semester in the SIGD Taiwan Program with Professor Tin Man Lau. Eight INDD graduate and undergraduate students are participating in the Taiwan Program which is in its eleventh year of operation.

• Students from GDES and the Creative Writing Poetry program teamed up on a project commemorat-Burren College of Art Irish Parliament

SIGD Ireland Program, GDES students at Trinity College

SIGD Ireland Program, INDD students at Trafalgar Square

Airbus location at Brookley Field, Mobile, AL Large, Threadgould, Gogue

Dog Back Pack Team: Klebenow, Rico, Boone, Moffet

C. Windham

Capps, Gogue

Murchison, Richardson

Lundell, Boyd

This summer/fall semester 2014 the School of Industrial + Graphic Design (SIGD) will host:

• Two sessions of the 19th Annual Design Workshop Summer Camp for high school students. This program is directed by Associate Professor Chris Arnold. Contact: www.auburn.edu/idcamp or call 334-844-5817 for details.

• A SIGD Reception for all industrial and graphic design alumni, faculty and students will be held as part of the IDSA National Conference at the Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas, Friday 15 August 2014. This reception is open to all SIGD / CADC alumni and friends.

• The fall semester meeting of the SIGD Advisory Council will take place on Thursday, 25 September, beginning at 10:30 AM Central Time in Wallace 208. We are always looking to expand our membership, particularly in the area of graphic design. If you have an interest, feel free to attend as a guest.

• The 32nd Annual Design Interaction Symposium will take place on Friday, 26 September, with two speakers (indus-trial/graphic) presenting in the morning starting at 9:00 AM, a Wallace Lawn Cookout at 12:00 and summary session in the afternoon at 2:00 PM. All are welcome to attend.

• The Graphic Design Senior Show is scheduled for Monday -Saturday, 8-13 December, in Wallace Hall.

• Honors: In the DesignIntelligence 2014 ranking of Industrial Design programs across the country the INDD under-graduate program was ranked 6th and the graduate program ranked 3rd in the nation. The GDES program has been listed as one of 23 top schools in the country by Graphic Design USA. For more info on INDD / GDES rankings go to: http://store.di.net/products/best-architecture-schools, http://www.gdusa.com/issue_2014/march/schools.php

L*unchBox workshop participants in Paris

SIGD faculty, Aubie and the Anna delegation

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AU Booth at IECHE

US Embassy

Provisional Acceptance

Bailey, Smith, Sandlin, AKEEP students and Mason

INDD council members at display in the Student Center

GDES council members discussing design foundations

Juried Show Award Winners

SIGD Office Suite, Admin Assistant Sylvia Jackson

Graphic Design Senior Show8-13 December 2014

Wallace Hall

Go to the new SIGD website, cadc.auburn.edu/designfor details and see the great graphic and industrial design videos.

Tau Sigma Delta inductees, Nathan, Speetjens far right

Lawrie, Murchison SIGD Recognition Award

Bill Dunlop JCSM Catalog

Studio Prize Winners

INDD students with Shu-Te University faculty, Taiwan

SIGD hosted a number of guests this spring:

• During Spring break, Auburn Provost Tim Boosinger, VP and CFO Don Large, Legal Counsel Lee Armstrong and Special Assistant to the President, Bob McGinnis and wives participated in the SIGD Ireland Programs. They visited SIGD collaborating institutions at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In Dublin, they also visited Trinity College and the Irish Parliament. This year a record seven faculty and staff and 36 students participated in the SIGD Ireland programs. SIGD faculty/staff Randy Bartlett, Chris Arnold, Robert Finkel, Courtney Wind-ham, David Gowan, Chris Webb and Clark Lundell all participated and met with the Auburn executive group.

• Shea Tillman and six students were invited to participate in L*unchBox, a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary innovation workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Etienne, France. INDD students/faculty Will King, Jonathan Dunn, Elenè Weaver, Marcus Crawford,

Assistant Professor Shea Tillman, Vanessa Lee and Seth Maddox (see photo), worked on teams with students from Brunel University (London England), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) Ecole des Mines (Saint-Etienne, France) and Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne, France). Shea also led and facilitated two teams that included students from France, Italy, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia. These teams were tasked with generating, developing, and presenting concepts that addressed the challenge: “Imagine the Future of Retail Environments and Experiences.” Through a series of sequential design-thinking activities, each team produced future vision scenarios of a concept after generating more than one hundred original ideas. Student teams presented these concepts at the Citi of Design, an exhibition campus in Saint-Etienne. Associate Professor Shea Tillman has di-rected this program for two years and recently met with the Counsel General of France to discuss Auburn’s participation in this international initiative.

• Shea also began teaching the INDD 2230 Industrial Design History course to Second year students, and with Associate Professor Chris Arnold, exhibited Outside>In, a creative platform for integrating external inspiration into product form-giving at the 2014 Creative Showcase dur-ing Auburn University Research Week.

• On Tuesday, 2 April, SIGD participated in the reception and hosted a Wallace Hall tour for: Dr. M. Rajaram, Vice Chancellor, Dr. C. Chellappan, Dean, College of Engineering, Dr. Ranee Vedamuthu, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning from Anna University, one of the largest university systems in India.

• A contingent of Auburn, CADC, SIGD and College of Education representatives attended the 2014 Interna-tional Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education (IECHE) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city of five million people. More than 400 universities worldwide participated in this event to recruit students. Currently 83,000 students, fully supported by the Saudi government, study at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S. each year.

CADC was able to offer provisional acceptance to quali-fied individuals. The group from Auburn visited the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and made presentations at Al Faisal, Effat and Princess Nora Universities. Collaborative agree-ments are being established with these institutions.

• Senior Project Professor Ross Heck organized a contin-gent of designers from the new IBM Innovation Labora-tory in Austin, Texas to visit SIGD, make a presentation and view the GDES Senior Show. Russ Wilson- Design Executive, Jeff Noble-Operations Manager and Bethany Heck-Art Director met and interviewed students to dis-cuss their career objectives, interview strategies and present opportunities at the new IBM Innovation Lab.

• The Mobile Airport Authority’s Executive Director Roger Wehner and Real Estate Manager Carleen Stout-Clark toured SIGD. They presented a proposal regarding development of aerospace resources in and around the new AirBus facility at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama. They feel SIGD’s participation in this emerging resource could positively impact the innovation / technol-ogy community at this location.

• Tau Sigma Delta is the only national scholastic honorary society dedicated exclusively to the recognition of students in the design disciplines. At the renewed second annual design honorary induction, CADC Dean Vini Nathan was awarded the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. She was instrumental in encouraging the reinstatement of the Auburn Alpha Theta Chapter, which was founded in 1978. BSCI School Head Richard Burt was kind enough to allow the induction luncheon to take place in the Gorrie Center conference room. Chapter President and Land-scape Architecture Graduate Student, Kenneth “Dale” Speetjens, presented Vini with the Silver Medal and agreed to continue in his role into next year. INDD students Matt Cooper and Eugene Williams volunteered to fill the posi-tions of chapter Vice President and Treasurer respectively.

• In February, the Alabama-Korea Educational Exchange Program (AKEEP) visited the Auburn campus and SIGD under the direction of CADC Associate Dean Bret Smith and CADC Recruiter Kristi Sandlin with SIGD UTM Chad Bailey. These students are primarily juniors visiting our campus through Jenn Mason and the Auburn Office of International Programs. They were from various high schools throughout Korea.

• As part of our annual Designing Green/Juried Show coordinated events, guest speaker Tiffany Threadgould, Chief Design Junky from Terracycle, Inc. Trenton, New Jersey, made the Designing Green Competition kickoff presentation. This event was managed by Associate Professor Jerrod Windham. Tiffany challenged students to upcycle leather, fabric remnants and wine bottle corks

into new products. Student teams developed a range of solutions, within the 24-hour constraints of the competi-tion, of which the design for a doggie back pack won first place. Auburn President Jay Gogue and VP/CFO Don Large participated in Tiffany’s kickoff presentation.

• At our bi-annual SIGD Advisory Council meetings, we of-ten divide up the council so focus can be placed on the specific disciplines of GDES or INDD. This spring the INDD coun-cil members viewed the INDD display in the Student Center and GDES members had a focused discussion on the GDES design foundations sequence with Professor John Morgan.

• Assistant Professor Courtney Windham designed the poster celebrating these two coordinated events. Associate Professor Samantha Lawrie worked with Atlanta’s Portfolio Center Director Hank Richardson to serve as juror for the spring Juried Show. Proctor & Gamble’s Tracy Murchison viewed the student work presented at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center and interacted with GDES faculty and students. Featured speakers for the two events received SIGD Recognition Awards, designed and fabricated by As-sociate Professor Chris Arnold and Professor John Morgan.

• Visiting Instructor Bill Dunlop has been critical to the delivery of our graphic design foundations classes. Bill has a deep history both as an artist and art collector. In 2014 the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art ( JCSM) exhibited a portion of Bill’s collec-tion, which was documented through publication of an exhibition catalog. At the spring semester SIGD Convocation Bill agreed to be our guest speaker. SIGD faculty and students were impressed by the scope of his artistic work and range of his collection.

• As part of our Spring Semester Convocation, selected SIGD students from across all studio levels are identified for the contribution they make to our academic mission. These individuals are awarded SIGD Studio Prize Certificates. This spring’s awards went to the following students pictured below left to right: Emmanuel Favela, Kristen Harlin, Sara Hagale, Bryan Stubblefield, Jessi Chambliss, Patrick Murphy, Ann Gardener, Andrew Rentz.

• Laboratory Specialist Robert Capps has had a banner spring semester. He was selected to receive the Auburn University Spirit of Excellence Award and congratu-lated on this recognition by AU President Jay Gogue. SIGD Office Administrator Becky Boyd was recog-nized for her 20 years of service to Auburn University and was acknowledged at the final spring semester faculty / staff meeting for her accomplishment.

• The fine people at Madix Incorporated, an office / retail fixture manufacturer with 2.4 million square feet of manufacturing and storage space located in Alabama and Texas, assisted the SIGD office staff in developing designs for a new SIGD office suite. We thank INDD alumni Don Doyle and David Wilder of Madix for initiating this effort and Walter T Dowdle Madix Executive Vice President for approv-ing the fabrication and installation.

• There were a total of thirty-two applicants to the INDD graduate program this spring. Twelve of these students were offered admission this fall semester. Currently there are twenty-two graduate students in the program. This spring the one student (Re’Ann McCoy) in the ENVD post baccalaureate program was admitted to the graduate program and is pursu-ing her first graduate student semester in the SIGD Taiwan Program with Professor Tin Man Lau. Eight INDD graduate and undergraduate students are participating in the Taiwan Program which is in its eleventh year of operation.

• Students from GDES and the Creative Writing Poetry program teamed up on a project commemorat-Burren College of Art Irish Parliament

SIGD Ireland Program, GDES students at Trinity College

SIGD Ireland Program, INDD students at Trafalgar Square

Airbus location at Brookley Field, Mobile, AL Large, Threadgould, Gogue

Dog Back Pack Team: Klebenow, Rico, Boone, Moffet

C. Windham

Capps, Gogue

Murchison, Richardson

Lundell, Boyd

This summer/fall semester 2014 the School of Industrial + Graphic Design (SIGD) will host:

• Two sessions of the 19th Annual Design Workshop Summer Camp for high school students. This program is directed by Associate Professor Chris Arnold. Contact: www.auburn.edu/idcamp or call 334-844-5817 for details.

• A SIGD Reception for all industrial and graphic design alumni, faculty and students will be held as part of the IDSA National Conference at the Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas, Friday 15 August 2014. This reception is open to all SIGD / CADC alumni and friends.

• The fall semester meeting of the SIGD Advisory Council will take place on Thursday, 25 September, beginning at 10:30 AM Central Time in Wallace 208. We are always looking to expand our membership, particularly in the area of graphic design. If you have an interest, feel free to attend as a guest.

• The 32nd Annual Design Interaction Symposium will take place on Friday, 26 September, with two speakers (indus-trial/graphic) presenting in the morning starting at 9:00 AM, a Wallace Lawn Cookout at 12:00 and summary session in the afternoon at 2:00 PM. All are welcome to attend.

• The Graphic Design Senior Show is scheduled for Monday -Saturday, 8-13 December, in Wallace Hall.

• Honors: In the DesignIntelligence 2014 ranking of Industrial Design programs across the country the INDD under-graduate program was ranked 6th and the graduate program ranked 3rd in the nation. The GDES program has been listed as one of 23 top schools in the country by Graphic Design USA. For more info on INDD / GDES rankings go to: http://store.di.net/products/best-architecture-schools, http://www.gdusa.com/issue_2014/march/schools.php

L*unchBox workshop participants in Paris

SIGD faculty, Aubie and the Anna delegation

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AU Booth at IECHE

US Embassy

Provisional Acceptance

Bailey, Smith, Sandlin, AKEEP students and Mason

INDD council members at display in the Student Center

GDES council members discussing design foundations

Juried Show Award Winners

SIGD Office Suite, Admin Assistant Sylvia Jackson

Graphic Design Senior Show8-13 December 2014

Wallace Hall

Go to the new SIGD website, cadc.auburn.edu/designfor details and see the great graphic and industrial design videos.

Tau Sigma Delta inductees, Nathan, Speetjens far right

Lawrie, Murchison SIGD Recognition Award

Bill Dunlop JCSM Catalog

Studio Prize Winners

INDD students with Shu-Te University faculty, Taiwan

SIGD hosted a number of guests this spring:

• During Spring break, Auburn Provost Tim Boosinger, VP and CFO Don Large, Legal Counsel Lee Armstrong and Special Assistant to the President, Bob McGinnis and wives participated in the SIGD Ireland Programs. They visited SIGD collaborating institutions at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In Dublin, they also visited Trinity College and the Irish Parliament. This year a record seven faculty and staff and 36 students participated in the SIGD Ireland programs. SIGD faculty/staff Randy Bartlett, Chris Arnold, Robert Finkel, Courtney Wind-ham, David Gowan, Chris Webb and Clark Lundell all participated and met with the Auburn executive group.

• Shea Tillman and six students were invited to participate in L*unchBox, a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary innovation workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Etienne, France. INDD students/faculty Will King, Jonathan Dunn, Elenè Weaver, Marcus Crawford,

Assistant Professor Shea Tillman, Vanessa Lee and Seth Maddox (see photo), worked on teams with students from Brunel University (London England), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) Ecole des Mines (Saint-Etienne, France) and Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne, France). Shea also led and facilitated two teams that included students from France, Italy, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia. These teams were tasked with generating, developing, and presenting concepts that addressed the challenge: “Imagine the Future of Retail Environments and Experiences.” Through a series of sequential design-thinking activities, each team produced future vision scenarios of a concept after generating more than one hundred original ideas. Student teams presented these concepts at the Citi of Design, an exhibition campus in Saint-Etienne. Associate Professor Shea Tillman has di-rected this program for two years and recently met with the Counsel General of France to discuss Auburn’s participation in this international initiative.

• Shea also began teaching the INDD 2230 Industrial Design History course to Second year students, and with Associate Professor Chris Arnold, exhibited Outside>In, a creative platform for integrating external inspiration into product form-giving at the 2014 Creative Showcase dur-ing Auburn University Research Week.

• On Tuesday, 2 April, SIGD participated in the reception and hosted a Wallace Hall tour for: Dr. M. Rajaram, Vice Chancellor, Dr. C. Chellappan, Dean, College of Engineering, Dr. Ranee Vedamuthu, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning from Anna University, one of the largest university systems in India.

• A contingent of Auburn, CADC, SIGD and College of Education representatives attended the 2014 Interna-tional Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education (IECHE) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city of five million people. More than 400 universities worldwide participated in this event to recruit students. Currently 83,000 students, fully supported by the Saudi government, study at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S. each year.

CADC was able to offer provisional acceptance to quali-fied individuals. The group from Auburn visited the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and made presentations at Al Faisal, Effat and Princess Nora Universities. Collaborative agree-ments are being established with these institutions.

• Senior Project Professor Ross Heck organized a contin-gent of designers from the new IBM Innovation Labora-tory in Austin, Texas to visit SIGD, make a presentation and view the GDES Senior Show. Russ Wilson- Design Executive, Jeff Noble-Operations Manager and Bethany Heck-Art Director met and interviewed students to dis-cuss their career objectives, interview strategies and present opportunities at the new IBM Innovation Lab.

• The Mobile Airport Authority’s Executive Director Roger Wehner and Real Estate Manager Carleen Stout-Clark toured SIGD. They presented a proposal regarding development of aerospace resources in and around the new AirBus facility at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama. They feel SIGD’s participation in this emerging resource could positively impact the innovation / technol-ogy community at this location.

• Tau Sigma Delta is the only national scholastic honorary society dedicated exclusively to the recognition of students in the design disciplines. At the renewed second annual design honorary induction, CADC Dean Vini Nathan was awarded the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. She was instrumental in encouraging the reinstatement of the Auburn Alpha Theta Chapter, which was founded in 1978. BSCI School Head Richard Burt was kind enough to allow the induction luncheon to take place in the Gorrie Center conference room. Chapter President and Land-scape Architecture Graduate Student, Kenneth “Dale” Speetjens, presented Vini with the Silver Medal and agreed to continue in his role into next year. INDD students Matt Cooper and Eugene Williams volunteered to fill the posi-tions of chapter Vice President and Treasurer respectively.

• In February, the Alabama-Korea Educational Exchange Program (AKEEP) visited the Auburn campus and SIGD under the direction of CADC Associate Dean Bret Smith and CADC Recruiter Kristi Sandlin with SIGD UTM Chad Bailey. These students are primarily juniors visiting our campus through Jenn Mason and the Auburn Office of International Programs. They were from various high schools throughout Korea.

• As part of our annual Designing Green/Juried Show coordinated events, guest speaker Tiffany Threadgould, Chief Design Junky from Terracycle, Inc. Trenton, New Jersey, made the Designing Green Competition kickoff presentation. This event was managed by Associate Professor Jerrod Windham. Tiffany challenged students to upcycle leather, fabric remnants and wine bottle corks

into new products. Student teams developed a range of solutions, within the 24-hour constraints of the competi-tion, of which the design for a doggie back pack won first place. Auburn President Jay Gogue and VP/CFO Don Large participated in Tiffany’s kickoff presentation.

• At our bi-annual SIGD Advisory Council meetings, we of-ten divide up the council so focus can be placed on the specific disciplines of GDES or INDD. This spring the INDD coun-cil members viewed the INDD display in the Student Center and GDES members had a focused discussion on the GDES design foundations sequence with Professor John Morgan.

• Assistant Professor Courtney Windham designed the poster celebrating these two coordinated events. Associate Professor Samantha Lawrie worked with Atlanta’s Portfolio Center Director Hank Richardson to serve as juror for the spring Juried Show. Proctor & Gamble’s Tracy Murchison viewed the student work presented at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center and interacted with GDES faculty and students. Featured speakers for the two events received SIGD Recognition Awards, designed and fabricated by As-sociate Professor Chris Arnold and Professor John Morgan.

• Visiting Instructor Bill Dunlop has been critical to the delivery of our graphic design foundations classes. Bill has a deep history both as an artist and art collector. In 2014 the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art ( JCSM) exhibited a portion of Bill’s collec-tion, which was documented through publication of an exhibition catalog. At the spring semester SIGD Convocation Bill agreed to be our guest speaker. SIGD faculty and students were impressed by the scope of his artistic work and range of his collection.

• As part of our Spring Semester Convocation, selected SIGD students from across all studio levels are identified for the contribution they make to our academic mission. These individuals are awarded SIGD Studio Prize Certificates. This spring’s awards went to the following students pictured below left to right: Emmanuel Favela, Kristen Harlin, Sara Hagale, Bryan Stubblefield, Jessi Chambliss, Patrick Murphy, Ann Gardener, Andrew Rentz.

• Laboratory Specialist Robert Capps has had a banner spring semester. He was selected to receive the Auburn University Spirit of Excellence Award and congratu-lated on this recognition by AU President Jay Gogue. SIGD Office Administrator Becky Boyd was recog-nized for her 20 years of service to Auburn University and was acknowledged at the final spring semester faculty / staff meeting for her accomplishment.

• The fine people at Madix Incorporated, an office / retail fixture manufacturer with 2.4 million square feet of manufacturing and storage space located in Alabama and Texas, assisted the SIGD office staff in developing designs for a new SIGD office suite. We thank INDD alumni Don Doyle and David Wilder of Madix for initiating this effort and Walter T Dowdle Madix Executive Vice President for approv-ing the fabrication and installation.

• There were a total of thirty-two applicants to the INDD graduate program this spring. Twelve of these students were offered admission this fall semester. Currently there are twenty-two graduate students in the program. This spring the one student (Re’Ann McCoy) in the ENVD post baccalaureate program was admitted to the graduate program and is pursu-ing her first graduate student semester in the SIGD Taiwan Program with Professor Tin Man Lau. Eight INDD graduate and undergraduate students are participating in the Taiwan Program which is in its eleventh year of operation.

• Students from GDES and the Creative Writing Poetry program teamed up on a project commemorat-Burren College of Art Irish Parliament

SIGD Ireland Program, GDES students at Trinity College

SIGD Ireland Program, INDD students at Trafalgar Square

Airbus location at Brookley Field, Mobile, AL Large, Threadgould, Gogue

Dog Back Pack Team: Klebenow, Rico, Boone, Moffet

C. Windham

Capps, Gogue

Murchison, Richardson

Lundell, Boyd

This summer/fall semester 2014 the School of Industrial + Graphic Design (SIGD) will host:

• Two sessions of the 19th Annual Design Workshop Summer Camp for high school students. This program is directed by Associate Professor Chris Arnold. Contact: www.auburn.edu/idcamp or call 334-844-5817 for details.

• A SIGD Reception for all industrial and graphic design alumni, faculty and students will be held as part of the IDSA National Conference at the Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas, Friday 15 August 2014. This reception is open to all SIGD / CADC alumni and friends.

• The fall semester meeting of the SIGD Advisory Council will take place on Thursday, 25 September, beginning at 10:30 AM Central Time in Wallace 208. We are always looking to expand our membership, particularly in the area of graphic design. If you have an interest, feel free to attend as a guest.

• The 32nd Annual Design Interaction Symposium will take place on Friday, 26 September, with two speakers (indus-trial/graphic) presenting in the morning starting at 9:00 AM, a Wallace Lawn Cookout at 12:00 and summary session in the afternoon at 2:00 PM. All are welcome to attend.

• The Graphic Design Senior Show is scheduled for Monday -Saturday, 8-13 December, in Wallace Hall.

• Honors: In the DesignIntelligence 2014 ranking of Industrial Design programs across the country the INDD under-graduate program was ranked 6th and the graduate program ranked 3rd in the nation. The GDES program has been listed as one of 23 top schools in the country by Graphic Design USA. For more info on INDD / GDES rankings go to: http://store.di.net/products/best-architecture-schools, http://www.gdusa.com/issue_2014/march/schools.php

L*unchBox workshop participants in Paris

SIGD faculty, Aubie and the Anna delegation

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AU Booth at IECHE

US Embassy

Provisional Acceptance

Bailey, Smith, Sandlin, AKEEP students and Mason

INDD council members at display in the Student Center

GDES council members discussing design foundations

Juried Show Award Winners

SIGD Office Suite, Admin Assistant Sylvia Jackson

Graphic Design Senior Show8-13 December 2014

Wallace Hall

Go to the new SIGD website, cadc.auburn.edu/designfor details and see the great graphic and industrial design videos.

Tau Sigma Delta inductees, Nathan, Speetjens far right

Lawrie, Murchison SIGD Recognition Award

Bill Dunlop JCSM Catalog

Studio Prize Winners

INDD students with Shu-Te University faculty, Taiwan

SIGD hosted a number of guests this spring:

• During Spring break, Auburn Provost Tim Boosinger, VP and CFO Don Large, Legal Counsel Lee Armstrong and Special Assistant to the President, Bob McGinnis and wives participated in the SIGD Ireland Programs. They visited SIGD collaborating institutions at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In Dublin, they also visited Trinity College and the Irish Parliament. This year a record seven faculty and staff and 36 students participated in the SIGD Ireland programs. SIGD faculty/staff Randy Bartlett, Chris Arnold, Robert Finkel, Courtney Wind-ham, David Gowan, Chris Webb and Clark Lundell all participated and met with the Auburn executive group.

• Shea Tillman and six students were invited to participate in L*unchBox, a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary innovation workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Etienne, France. INDD students/faculty Will King, Jonathan Dunn, Elenè Weaver, Marcus Crawford,

Assistant Professor Shea Tillman, Vanessa Lee and Seth Maddox (see photo), worked on teams with students from Brunel University (London England), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) Ecole des Mines (Saint-Etienne, France) and Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne, France). Shea also led and facilitated two teams that included students from France, Italy, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia. These teams were tasked with generating, developing, and presenting concepts that addressed the challenge: “Imagine the Future of Retail Environments and Experiences.” Through a series of sequential design-thinking activities, each team produced future vision scenarios of a concept after generating more than one hundred original ideas. Student teams presented these concepts at the Citi of Design, an exhibition campus in Saint-Etienne. Associate Professor Shea Tillman has di-rected this program for two years and recently met with the Counsel General of France to discuss Auburn’s participation in this international initiative.

• Shea also began teaching the INDD 2230 Industrial Design History course to Second year students, and with Associate Professor Chris Arnold, exhibited Outside>In, a creative platform for integrating external inspiration into product form-giving at the 2014 Creative Showcase dur-ing Auburn University Research Week.

• On Tuesday, 2 April, SIGD participated in the reception and hosted a Wallace Hall tour for: Dr. M. Rajaram, Vice Chancellor, Dr. C. Chellappan, Dean, College of Engineering, Dr. Ranee Vedamuthu, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning from Anna University, one of the largest university systems in India.

• A contingent of Auburn, CADC, SIGD and College of Education representatives attended the 2014 Interna-tional Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education (IECHE) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city of five million people. More than 400 universities worldwide participated in this event to recruit students. Currently 83,000 students, fully supported by the Saudi government, study at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S. each year.

CADC was able to offer provisional acceptance to quali-fied individuals. The group from Auburn visited the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and made presentations at Al Faisal, Effat and Princess Nora Universities. Collaborative agree-ments are being established with these institutions.

• Senior Project Professor Ross Heck organized a contin-gent of designers from the new IBM Innovation Labora-tory in Austin, Texas to visit SIGD, make a presentation and view the GDES Senior Show. Russ Wilson- Design Executive, Jeff Noble-Operations Manager and Bethany Heck-Art Director met and interviewed students to dis-cuss their career objectives, interview strategies and present opportunities at the new IBM Innovation Lab.

• The Mobile Airport Authority’s Executive Director Roger Wehner and Real Estate Manager Carleen Stout-Clark toured SIGD. They presented a proposal regarding development of aerospace resources in and around the new AirBus facility at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama. They feel SIGD’s participation in this emerging resource could positively impact the innovation / technol-ogy community at this location.

• Tau Sigma Delta is the only national scholastic honorary society dedicated exclusively to the recognition of students in the design disciplines. At the renewed second annual design honorary induction, CADC Dean Vini Nathan was awarded the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal. She was instrumental in encouraging the reinstatement of the Auburn Alpha Theta Chapter, which was founded in 1978. BSCI School Head Richard Burt was kind enough to allow the induction luncheon to take place in the Gorrie Center conference room. Chapter President and Land-scape Architecture Graduate Student, Kenneth “Dale” Speetjens, presented Vini with the Silver Medal and agreed to continue in his role into next year. INDD students Matt Cooper and Eugene Williams volunteered to fill the posi-tions of chapter Vice President and Treasurer respectively.

• In February, the Alabama-Korea Educational Exchange Program (AKEEP) visited the Auburn campus and SIGD under the direction of CADC Associate Dean Bret Smith and CADC Recruiter Kristi Sandlin with SIGD UTM Chad Bailey. These students are primarily juniors visiting our campus through Jenn Mason and the Auburn Office of International Programs. They were from various high schools throughout Korea.

• As part of our annual Designing Green/Juried Show coordinated events, guest speaker Tiffany Threadgould, Chief Design Junky from Terracycle, Inc. Trenton, New Jersey, made the Designing Green Competition kickoff presentation. This event was managed by Associate Professor Jerrod Windham. Tiffany challenged students to upcycle leather, fabric remnants and wine bottle corks

into new products. Student teams developed a range of solutions, within the 24-hour constraints of the competi-tion, of which the design for a doggie back pack won first place. Auburn President Jay Gogue and VP/CFO Don Large participated in Tiffany’s kickoff presentation.

• At our bi-annual SIGD Advisory Council meetings, we of-ten divide up the council so focus can be placed on the specific disciplines of GDES or INDD. This spring the INDD coun-cil members viewed the INDD display in the Student Center and GDES members had a focused discussion on the GDES design foundations sequence with Professor John Morgan.

• Assistant Professor Courtney Windham designed the poster celebrating these two coordinated events. Associate Professor Samantha Lawrie worked with Atlanta’s Portfolio Center Director Hank Richardson to serve as juror for the spring Juried Show. Proctor & Gamble’s Tracy Murchison viewed the student work presented at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center and interacted with GDES faculty and students. Featured speakers for the two events received SIGD Recognition Awards, designed and fabricated by As-sociate Professor Chris Arnold and Professor John Morgan.

• Visiting Instructor Bill Dunlop has been critical to the delivery of our graphic design foundations classes. Bill has a deep history both as an artist and art collector. In 2014 the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art ( JCSM) exhibited a portion of Bill’s collec-tion, which was documented through publication of an exhibition catalog. At the spring semester SIGD Convocation Bill agreed to be our guest speaker. SIGD faculty and students were impressed by the scope of his artistic work and range of his collection.

• As part of our Spring Semester Convocation, selected SIGD students from across all studio levels are identified for the contribution they make to our academic mission. These individuals are awarded SIGD Studio Prize Certificates. This spring’s awards went to the following students pictured below left to right: Emmanuel Favela, Kristen Harlin, Sara Hagale, Bryan Stubblefield, Jessi Chambliss, Patrick Murphy, Ann Gardener, Andrew Rentz.

• Laboratory Specialist Robert Capps has had a banner spring semester. He was selected to receive the Auburn University Spirit of Excellence Award and congratu-lated on this recognition by AU President Jay Gogue. SIGD Office Administrator Becky Boyd was recog-nized for her 20 years of service to Auburn University and was acknowledged at the final spring semester faculty / staff meeting for her accomplishment.

• The fine people at Madix Incorporated, an office / retail fixture manufacturer with 2.4 million square feet of manufacturing and storage space located in Alabama and Texas, assisted the SIGD office staff in developing designs for a new SIGD office suite. We thank INDD alumni Don Doyle and David Wilder of Madix for initiating this effort and Walter T Dowdle Madix Executive Vice President for approv-ing the fabrication and installation.

• There were a total of thirty-two applicants to the INDD graduate program this spring. Twelve of these students were offered admission this fall semester. Currently there are twenty-two graduate students in the program. This spring the one student (Re’Ann McCoy) in the ENVD post baccalaureate program was admitted to the graduate program and is pursu-ing her first graduate student semester in the SIGD Taiwan Program with Professor Tin Man Lau. Eight INDD graduate and undergraduate students are participating in the Taiwan Program which is in its eleventh year of operation.

• Students from GDES and the Creative Writing Poetry program teamed up on a project commemorat-Burren College of Art Irish Parliament

SIGD Ireland Program, GDES students at Trinity College

SIGD Ireland Program, INDD students at Trafalgar Square

Airbus location at Brookley Field, Mobile, AL Large, Threadgould, Gogue

Dog Back Pack Team: Klebenow, Rico, Boone, Moffet

C. Windham

Capps, Gogue

Murchison, Richardson

Lundell, Boyd

This summer/fall semester 2014 the School of Industrial + Graphic Design (SIGD) will host:

• Two sessions of the 19th Annual Design Workshop Summer Camp for high school students. This program is directed by Associate Professor Chris Arnold. Contact: www.auburn.edu/idcamp or call 334-844-5817 for details.

• A SIGD Reception for all industrial and graphic design alumni, faculty and students will be held as part of the IDSA National Conference at the Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas, Friday 15 August 2014. This reception is open to all SIGD / CADC alumni and friends.

• The fall semester meeting of the SIGD Advisory Council will take place on Thursday, 25 September, beginning at 10:30 AM Central Time in Wallace 208. We are always looking to expand our membership, particularly in the area of graphic design. If you have an interest, feel free to attend as a guest.

• The 32nd Annual Design Interaction Symposium will take place on Friday, 26 September, with two speakers (indus-trial/graphic) presenting in the morning starting at 9:00 AM, a Wallace Lawn Cookout at 12:00 and summary session in the afternoon at 2:00 PM. All are welcome to attend.

• The Graphic Design Senior Show is scheduled for Monday -Saturday, 8-13 December, in Wallace Hall.

• Honors: In the DesignIntelligence 2014 ranking of Industrial Design programs across the country the INDD under-graduate program was ranked 6th and the graduate program ranked 3rd in the nation. The GDES program has been listed as one of 23 top schools in the country by Graphic Design USA. For more info on INDD / GDES rankings go to: http://store.di.net/products/best-architecture-schools, http://www.gdusa.com/issue_2014/march/schools.php

L*unchBox workshop participants in Paris

SIGD faculty, Aubie and the Anna delegation

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AU Booth at IECHE

US Embassy

Provisional Acceptance

Bailey, Smith, Sandlin, AKEEP students and Mason

INDD council members at display in the Student Center

GDES council members discussing design foundations

Juried Show Award Winners

SIGD Office Suite, Admin Assistant Sylvia Jackson

Graphic Design Senior Show8-13 December 2014

Wallace Hall

Go to the new SIGD website, cadc.auburn.edu/designfor details and see the great graphic and industrial design videos.

Tau Sigma Delta inductees, Nathan, Speetjens far right

Lawrie, Murchison SIGD Recognition Award

Bill Dunlop JCSM Catalog

Studio Prize Winners

INDD students with Shu-Te University faculty, Taiwan

SIGDDesignNotes

Spring 2014

Mark your calendars for this year’s

Design WorkshopSummer Camp

8-13 June 201413-18 July 2014

SIGD Alumni ReceptionFriday, 15 August, 6:00ish PM IDSA National Conference

Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas

SIGD Advisory Council MeetingThursday, 25 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 208

Design InteractionFriday, 26 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 107 and 111

cadc.auburn.edu/design

ing the 50th Anniversary of integration at Auburn. Students in Assistant Professor Keetje Kuipers’ Poetry of Southern Witness class wrote poems relating to the themes and issues regarding integration and Civil Rights. Assistant Professor Robert Finkel’s In-tro to Graphic Design students paired up with poetry students to visually interpret the poetry in the form of a broadside. The designer/poet pairs met and discussed the poems’ content. The designers then spent three weeks conceptualizing, sketching and designing the broadside for each poem. In total sixteen broadsides were created. At the final presentation, in the Library of Architecture, Design and Construction, each poet read their work, and the designer then talked about their process and design decisions. 

• Robert Finkel’s brochure/poster for Alabama Workshop[s] will be included the book Creative Anarchy, published by HOW books, featuring projects from around the world that push the traditional rules and norms of graphic design. Alabama Workshop[s] is a collaboration with Architecture Professor Sheri Schumacher. Robert also has two logos that have been published in the book, Design: Logo: An Explora-tion of Marvelous Marks, Insightful Essays, and Reveal-ing Reviews, published by Rockport Publishers. The book showcases over 300 eye-catching logo designs chosen by leading identity designers. 

• Professor Rich Britnell’s InSinkErator studio worked on their instant, near boiling hot water dispenser series. The focus was on new faucet designs and after-market coffee brewing attachments. InSinkErator President Tim Ferry and other executives traveled on their Falcon cor-porate jet from Racine, Wisconsin to Auburn to attend the final review. Studio participants were: Charlie Scott, Jonathan Ralleca, DeBrandon Willis, Anthony Parker, Seth Maddox, Cody Template, Savannah Durden, Phillip Ferentinos, Elene’ Weaver, Natalie Simpson, JC Waddell, Alex Romigh, Patrick Glenn, Rich Britnell.

• Four GDES students won American Package Design Awards from GDUSA. The winners were: Erin Al-bright - Alpine Market Trail Mix (Fall 2013 Directed Study with Courtney Windham). Lindsey Drennan - Bless Her Heart: Southern Chocolate (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Courtney Windham). Patrick Daugherty - English Breakfast Chocolate Bars (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Court-ney Windham). Adriana Lee - Feathered Friends Chocolate Company (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic De-sign with Robert Finkel). This competition celebrates well-designed graphics but also the power of design to advance the brand promise and forge an emotional connection with the buyer at the moment of truth. This year’s entries soared to 1,800, up 12 percent from last year, and a highly selective one-in-five are being recognized with an award. The winning pieces will appear in the GDUSA 2014 American Package Design Annual, on the website, and iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets and mobile devices.

• This spring Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng taught Anthropometry, Materials & Technology, and a Product Design Studio. She still managed to assist four graduate students with their thesis research and completion and served as committee chair for two of them. She also completed courses in the protection of human subjects’ curriculum through a CITI training program, one of the requirements for conducting human subjects’ research by the federal government. The completion of CITI training allows Shu-Wen to serve as a faculty advisor for any graduate student whose research involves human subjects. In addition to teaching lecture courses and guiding graduate stu-dents, Shu-Wen led an industry collaboration project with Jose Mendez of Char-Broil LLC. The goal of this project was to design innovative grill accessories that enhance end user experience and help Char-Broil elevate its brand apart from their competitors. The final project outcome included 30 innovative grill accessory designs, which were highly appreciated by the client. Some of the ideas may be incorporated into new product lines for Char-Broil LLC.

• Professor Kelly Bryant’s Theoretical Agency Philoso-phy Poster, developed last year, was recently accepted by an international book publisher, Denise Bosler LLC. www.bosler.com.  It is to be included in a final draft of the publication and may appear as a full page. This book goes beyond the “look” of the work - it delves into the design and creativity process as well. All associated text authored by Kelly will be credited to her.

• In the spring, Assistant Professor Lauren Weigel led a collaborative studio with Generac from Waukesha, Wisconsin. This was the fourth collaboration Auburn industrial design and Generac have worked on together. The final presentation was held at the Generac facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

• Lauren also co-chaired “Open Ground” with Associ-ate Professor Magdalena Garmaz, the program chair of Environmental Design. “Open Ground” is an annual, interdisciplinary forum that was designed specifically to bring students and thought leaders together to share ideas about design thinking and social entrepreneurship. There were a large number of industrial design students who attended. The event featured Blake Canterbury founder of beremedy and Dime Creative in Atlanta, Liz Ogbu, faculty member at UC Berkeley and IDEO.org fellow in Oakland, California, and Sara Williamson and Grant Brigham from Jones Valley Teaching Farm, Birmingham, Alabama.

• Professor Carlton Nell’s GDES 1110 Foundation Drawing Studio has been manipulating color paper to obtain the flat tonal quality often achieved only through acrylic painting. See examples below:

• Each spring semester, while Professor Randy Bartlett is briefly away managing the Ireland Program, professionals from Emerson Tool spend a week at SIGD. They partici-pate in numerous studio reviews with students in Randy’s class and cover the bases in his absence. This year newly-hired Emerson employee and AU/INDD grad Alex Wall, Industrial Designer, and Matt Williams, Senior Staff Engineer, participated in this valuable learning experience.

• Playcore’s Senior Vice President for Marketing Tom Norquist and his team spent a substantial amount of time working with Tin Man Lau’s studio to develop a new product line and strategy for the company. The final presentation was made in Fort Payne, Alabama to the company CEO and board members with great success.

• Professor Wei Wang has been developing relationships with various universities in China to promote a GDES summer study abroad program, which will bring Chinese students to Auburn. He also has developed a mobile phone application that will assist teachers in taking roll. The app should be launched within the next few months.

• Allison Braund, BFA 2013, successfully completed the first Industry Sponsored Graphic Design Senior Project in December and moved to NewYorkCity, where she is employed by Canopy Brand Group. Her first few months have had her working on Pepsi, Sierra Mist, KFC, Major League Baseball, Ruskova Vodka, and Biomet. This spring she was accepted to do graduate work in branding with NYU’s Integrated Marketing, Parsons’ Strategic Design

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Erin Albright’s Alpine Market Trail

Poet/Designer Team Broadsides

InSinkErator Studio

and Management, and SVA’s Masters in Branding. She will join the NYU program this Fall and be matched with a professional design strategist as a mentor for the first year.

• At this spring’s Senior Show, which for the first time was presented in Wallace Hall rooms 228-229, Caroline Col-lins was selected as the “A” Commended winner.

• Professor John Morgan is working on his largest research project to date. The mechanical sculpture when completed in early 2015 will function as a museum’s donation box . Morgan’s most recent automaton, Row Fish, is currently on display at the Mechanical Art and Design Museum in Stratford upon Avon in England.

• Graduation is a day that all our students look forward to and share with faculty, family and friends. Below are SIGD graduates at the CADC Reception before the morning graduation exercise in the new Arena: Marcus Crawford and Robin Parker, Aubie and Zach Kohrman.

Char-Broil Studio

Generac Studio, Jefferson, WI

Foundation Drawing Studio

Emerson Studio, Wall, Williams, center left.

Playcore studio design team

Allison Braund’s work with Nestles/Purina

Crawford, Parker Aubie, Kohrman

InSinkErator’s Ride

Caroline Collins’ “A” commended presentation

John Morgan’s Row Fish

SIGDDesignNotes

Spring 2014

Mark your calendars for this year’s

Design WorkshopSummer Camp

8-13 June 201413-18 July 2014

SIGD Alumni ReceptionFriday, 15 August, 6:00ish PM IDSA National Conference

Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas

SIGD Advisory Council MeetingThursday, 25 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 208

Design InteractionFriday, 26 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 107 and 111

cadc.auburn.edu/design

ing the 50th Anniversary of integration at Auburn. Students in Assistant Professor Keetje Kuipers’ Poetry of Southern Witness class wrote poems relating to the themes and issues regarding integration and Civil Rights. Assistant Professor Robert Finkel’s In-tro to Graphic Design students paired up with poetry students to visually interpret the poetry in the form of a broadside. The designer/poet pairs met and discussed the poems’ content. The designers then spent three weeks conceptualizing, sketching and designing the broadside for each poem. In total sixteen broadsides were created. At the final presentation, in the Library of Architecture, Design and Construction, each poet read their work, and the designer then talked about their process and design decisions. 

• Robert Finkel’s brochure/poster for Alabama Workshop[s] will be included the book Creative Anarchy, published by HOW books, featuring projects from around the world that push the traditional rules and norms of graphic design. Alabama Workshop[s] is a collaboration with Architecture Professor Sheri Schumacher. Robert also has two logos that have been published in the book, Design: Logo: An Explora-tion of Marvelous Marks, Insightful Essays, and Reveal-ing Reviews, published by Rockport Publishers. The book showcases over 300 eye-catching logo designs chosen by leading identity designers. 

• Professor Rich Britnell’s InSinkErator studio worked on their instant, near boiling hot water dispenser series. The focus was on new faucet designs and after-market coffee brewing attachments. InSinkErator President Tim Ferry and other executives traveled on their Falcon cor-porate jet from Racine, Wisconsin to Auburn to attend the final review. Studio participants were: Charlie Scott, Jonathan Ralleca, DeBrandon Willis, Anthony Parker, Seth Maddox, Cody Template, Savannah Durden, Phillip Ferentinos, Elene’ Weaver, Natalie Simpson, JC Waddell, Alex Romigh, Patrick Glenn, Rich Britnell.

• Four GDES students won American Package Design Awards from GDUSA. The winners were: Erin Al-bright - Alpine Market Trail Mix (Fall 2013 Directed Study with Courtney Windham). Lindsey Drennan - Bless Her Heart: Southern Chocolate (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Courtney Windham). Patrick Daugherty - English Breakfast Chocolate Bars (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Court-ney Windham). Adriana Lee - Feathered Friends Chocolate Company (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic De-sign with Robert Finkel). This competition celebrates well-designed graphics but also the power of design to advance the brand promise and forge an emotional connection with the buyer at the moment of truth. This year’s entries soared to 1,800, up 12 percent from last year, and a highly selective one-in-five are being recognized with an award. The winning pieces will appear in the GDUSA 2014 American Package Design Annual, on the website, and iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets and mobile devices.

• This spring Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng taught Anthropometry, Materials & Technology, and a Product Design Studio. She still managed to assist four graduate students with their thesis research and completion and served as committee chair for two of them. She also completed courses in the protection of human subjects’ curriculum through a CITI training program, one of the requirements for conducting human subjects’ research by the federal government. The completion of CITI training allows Shu-Wen to serve as a faculty advisor for any graduate student whose research involves human subjects. In addition to teaching lecture courses and guiding graduate stu-dents, Shu-Wen led an industry collaboration project with Jose Mendez of Char-Broil LLC. The goal of this project was to design innovative grill accessories that enhance end user experience and help Char-Broil elevate its brand apart from their competitors. The final project outcome included 30 innovative grill accessory designs, which were highly appreciated by the client. Some of the ideas may be incorporated into new product lines for Char-Broil LLC.

• Professor Kelly Bryant’s Theoretical Agency Philoso-phy Poster, developed last year, was recently accepted by an international book publisher, Denise Bosler LLC. www.bosler.com.  It is to be included in a final draft of the publication and may appear as a full page. This book goes beyond the “look” of the work - it delves into the design and creativity process as well. All associated text authored by Kelly will be credited to her.

• In the spring, Assistant Professor Lauren Weigel led a collaborative studio with Generac from Waukesha, Wisconsin. This was the fourth collaboration Auburn industrial design and Generac have worked on together. The final presentation was held at the Generac facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

• Lauren also co-chaired “Open Ground” with Associ-ate Professor Magdalena Garmaz, the program chair of Environmental Design. “Open Ground” is an annual, interdisciplinary forum that was designed specifically to bring students and thought leaders together to share ideas about design thinking and social entrepreneurship. There were a large number of industrial design students who attended. The event featured Blake Canterbury founder of beremedy and Dime Creative in Atlanta, Liz Ogbu, faculty member at UC Berkeley and IDEO.org fellow in Oakland, California, and Sara Williamson and Grant Brigham from Jones Valley Teaching Farm, Birmingham, Alabama.

• Professor Carlton Nell’s GDES 1110 Foundation Drawing Studio has been manipulating color paper to obtain the flat tonal quality often achieved only through acrylic painting. See examples below:

• Each spring semester, while Professor Randy Bartlett is briefly away managing the Ireland Program, professionals from Emerson Tool spend a week at SIGD. They partici-pate in numerous studio reviews with students in Randy’s class and cover the bases in his absence. This year newly-hired Emerson employee and AU/INDD grad Alex Wall, Industrial Designer, and Matt Williams, Senior Staff Engineer, participated in this valuable learning experience.

• Playcore’s Senior Vice President for Marketing Tom Norquist and his team spent a substantial amount of time working with Tin Man Lau’s studio to develop a new product line and strategy for the company. The final presentation was made in Fort Payne, Alabama to the company CEO and board members with great success.

• Professor Wei Wang has been developing relationships with various universities in China to promote a GDES summer study abroad program, which will bring Chinese students to Auburn. He also has developed a mobile phone application that will assist teachers in taking roll. The app should be launched within the next few months.

• Allison Braund, BFA 2013, successfully completed the first Industry Sponsored Graphic Design Senior Project in December and moved to NewYorkCity, where she is employed by Canopy Brand Group. Her first few months have had her working on Pepsi, Sierra Mist, KFC, Major League Baseball, Ruskova Vodka, and Biomet. This spring she was accepted to do graduate work in branding with NYU’s Integrated Marketing, Parsons’ Strategic Design

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Erin Albright’s Alpine Market Trail

Poet/Designer Team Broadsides

InSinkErator Studio

and Management, and SVA’s Masters in Branding. She will join the NYU program this Fall and be matched with a professional design strategist as a mentor for the first year.

• At this spring’s Senior Show, which for the first time was presented in Wallace Hall rooms 228-229, Caroline Col-lins was selected as the “A” Commended winner.

• Professor John Morgan is working on his largest research project to date. The mechanical sculpture when completed in early 2015 will function as a museum’s donation box . Morgan’s most recent automaton, Row Fish, is currently on display at the Mechanical Art and Design Museum in Stratford upon Avon in England.

• Graduation is a day that all our students look forward to and share with faculty, family and friends. Below are SIGD graduates at the CADC Reception before the morning graduation exercise in the new Arena: Marcus Crawford and Robin Parker, Aubie and Zach Kohrman.

Char-Broil Studio

Generac Studio, Jefferson, WI

Foundation Drawing Studio

Emerson Studio, Wall, Williams, center left.

Playcore studio design team

Allison Braund’s work with Nestles/Purina

Crawford, Parker Aubie, Kohrman

InSinkErator’s Ride

Caroline Collins’ “A” commended presentation

John Morgan’s Row Fish

SIGDDesignNotes

Spring 2014

Mark your calendars for this year’s

Design WorkshopSummer Camp

8-13 June 201413-18 July 2014

SIGD Alumni ReceptionFriday, 15 August, 6:00ish PM IDSA National Conference

Austin Hilton, Austin, Texas

SIGD Advisory Council MeetingThursday, 25 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 208

Design InteractionFriday, 26 September 2014

Wallace Hall, 107 and 111

cadc.auburn.edu/design

ing the 50th Anniversary of integration at Auburn. Students in Assistant Professor Keetje Kuipers’ Poetry of Southern Witness class wrote poems relating to the themes and issues regarding integration and Civil Rights. Assistant Professor Robert Finkel’s In-tro to Graphic Design students paired up with poetry students to visually interpret the poetry in the form of a broadside. The designer/poet pairs met and discussed the poems’ content. The designers then spent three weeks conceptualizing, sketching and designing the broadside for each poem. In total sixteen broadsides were created. At the final presentation, in the Library of Architecture, Design and Construction, each poet read their work, and the designer then talked about their process and design decisions. 

• Robert Finkel’s brochure/poster for Alabama Workshop[s] will be included the book Creative Anarchy, published by HOW books, featuring projects from around the world that push the traditional rules and norms of graphic design. Alabama Workshop[s] is a collaboration with Architecture Professor Sheri Schumacher. Robert also has two logos that have been published in the book, Design: Logo: An Explora-tion of Marvelous Marks, Insightful Essays, and Reveal-ing Reviews, published by Rockport Publishers. The book showcases over 300 eye-catching logo designs chosen by leading identity designers. 

• Professor Rich Britnell’s InSinkErator studio worked on their instant, near boiling hot water dispenser series. The focus was on new faucet designs and after-market coffee brewing attachments. InSinkErator President Tim Ferry and other executives traveled on their Falcon cor-porate jet from Racine, Wisconsin to Auburn to attend the final review. Studio participants were: Charlie Scott, Jonathan Ralleca, DeBrandon Willis, Anthony Parker, Seth Maddox, Cody Template, Savannah Durden, Phillip Ferentinos, Elene’ Weaver, Natalie Simpson, JC Waddell, Alex Romigh, Patrick Glenn, Rich Britnell.

• Four GDES students won American Package Design Awards from GDUSA. The winners were: Erin Al-bright - Alpine Market Trail Mix (Fall 2013 Directed Study with Courtney Windham). Lindsey Drennan - Bless Her Heart: Southern Chocolate (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Courtney Windham). Patrick Daugherty - English Breakfast Chocolate Bars (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic Design with Court-ney Windham). Adriana Lee - Feathered Friends Chocolate Company (Fall 2013 Intro to Graphic De-sign with Robert Finkel). This competition celebrates well-designed graphics but also the power of design to advance the brand promise and forge an emotional connection with the buyer at the moment of truth. This year’s entries soared to 1,800, up 12 percent from last year, and a highly selective one-in-five are being recognized with an award. The winning pieces will appear in the GDUSA 2014 American Package Design Annual, on the website, and iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets and mobile devices.

• This spring Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng taught Anthropometry, Materials & Technology, and a Product Design Studio. She still managed to assist four graduate students with their thesis research and completion and served as committee chair for two of them. She also completed courses in the protection of human subjects’ curriculum through a CITI training program, one of the requirements for conducting human subjects’ research by the federal government. The completion of CITI training allows Shu-Wen to serve as a faculty advisor for any graduate student whose research involves human subjects. In addition to teaching lecture courses and guiding graduate stu-dents, Shu-Wen led an industry collaboration project with Jose Mendez of Char-Broil LLC. The goal of this project was to design innovative grill accessories that enhance end user experience and help Char-Broil elevate its brand apart from their competitors. The final project outcome included 30 innovative grill accessory designs, which were highly appreciated by the client. Some of the ideas may be incorporated into new product lines for Char-Broil LLC.

• Professor Kelly Bryant’s Theoretical Agency Philoso-phy Poster, developed last year, was recently accepted by an international book publisher, Denise Bosler LLC. www.bosler.com.  It is to be included in a final draft of the publication and may appear as a full page. This book goes beyond the “look” of the work - it delves into the design and creativity process as well. All associated text authored by Kelly will be credited to her.

• In the spring, Assistant Professor Lauren Weigel led a collaborative studio with Generac from Waukesha, Wisconsin. This was the fourth collaboration Auburn industrial design and Generac have worked on together. The final presentation was held at the Generac facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

• Lauren also co-chaired “Open Ground” with Associ-ate Professor Magdalena Garmaz, the program chair of Environmental Design. “Open Ground” is an annual, interdisciplinary forum that was designed specifically to bring students and thought leaders together to share ideas about design thinking and social entrepreneurship. There were a large number of industrial design students who attended. The event featured Blake Canterbury founder of beremedy and Dime Creative in Atlanta, Liz Ogbu, faculty member at UC Berkeley and IDEO.org fellow in Oakland, California, and Sara Williamson and Grant Brigham from Jones Valley Teaching Farm, Birmingham, Alabama.

• Professor Carlton Nell’s GDES 1110 Foundation Drawing Studio has been manipulating color paper to obtain the flat tonal quality often achieved only through acrylic painting. See examples below:

• Each spring semester, while Professor Randy Bartlett is briefly away managing the Ireland Program, professionals from Emerson Tool spend a week at SIGD. They partici-pate in numerous studio reviews with students in Randy’s class and cover the bases in his absence. This year newly-hired Emerson employee and AU/INDD grad Alex Wall, Industrial Designer, and Matt Williams, Senior Staff Engineer, participated in this valuable learning experience.

• Playcore’s Senior Vice President for Marketing Tom Norquist and his team spent a substantial amount of time working with Tin Man Lau’s studio to develop a new product line and strategy for the company. The final presentation was made in Fort Payne, Alabama to the company CEO and board members with great success.

• Professor Wei Wang has been developing relationships with various universities in China to promote a GDES summer study abroad program, which will bring Chinese students to Auburn. He also has developed a mobile phone application that will assist teachers in taking roll. The app should be launched within the next few months.

• Allison Braund, BFA 2013, successfully completed the first Industry Sponsored Graphic Design Senior Project in December and moved to NewYorkCity, where she is employed by Canopy Brand Group. Her first few months have had her working on Pepsi, Sierra Mist, KFC, Major League Baseball, Ruskova Vodka, and Biomet. This spring she was accepted to do graduate work in branding with NYU’s Integrated Marketing, Parsons’ Strategic Design

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Adriana Lee’s Feather Friends Chocolate

If you know someone who would like to receive a copy of DesignNotes, send us their name and complete mailing address.

This newsletter and information about the school can be found at cadc.auburn.edu/design. You may also contact Sylvia Jackson at 334-844-2364 or e-mail Clark Lundell at lundece@auburn.edu.

Erin Albright’s Alpine Market Trail

Poet/Designer Team Broadsides

InSinkErator Studio

and Management, and SVA’s Masters in Branding. She will join the NYU program this Fall and be matched with a professional design strategist as a mentor for the first year.

• At this spring’s Senior Show, which for the first time was presented in Wallace Hall rooms 228-229, Caroline Col-lins was selected as the “A” Commended winner.

• Professor John Morgan is working on his largest research project to date. The mechanical sculpture when completed in early 2015 will function as a museum’s donation box . Morgan’s most recent automaton, Row Fish, is currently on display at the Mechanical Art and Design Museum in Stratford upon Avon in England.

• Graduation is a day that all our students look forward to and share with faculty, family and friends. Below are SIGD graduates at the CADC Reception before the morning graduation exercise in the new Arena: Marcus Crawford and Robin Parker, Aubie and Zach Kohrman.

Char-Broil Studio

Generac Studio, Jefferson, WI

Foundation Drawing Studio

Emerson Studio, Wall, Williams, center left.

Playcore studio design team

Allison Braund’s work with Nestles/Purina

Crawford, Parker Aubie, Kohrman

InSinkErator’s Ride

Caroline Collins’ “A” commended presentation

John Morgan’s Row Fish