Many congratulations to Crystal Lee who maintained the IDEA Program’s record of winning at least one Salazar award each year! Crystal won with her Curious Mouse cheese packaging. Click on the image to see Crystal’s work on the Salazar web site.
Congratulations also to branding category finalists Sarah Eno, Samantha Smith, Sharon Hsiao and Markus Wreland, and print category finalist Sarah Eno. Honourable Mentions went to Markus Wreland and Jack Wu.
Miranda Hebert (Grad 11), the second IDEA student to attend Hertfordshire University in the UK to complete her degree, was published last month in CMYK Magazine’s Top 100 New Creatives. Click on the cover to see her work. Miranda will be graduating in June and plans to work in London. We wish her much success!
First year student Susan Li won the top prize ($500 cash and a Cintiq tablet) in CAPIC’s Rodeo 4 awards with her image “Street Lotus” (left in the photo). The CAPIC gala awards were held last Friday night at Capilano – there were many IDEA student finalists this year. The photo shows Susan with two of her entries. More images from the event can be found on CAPIC’s Facebook page.
photo © Rick Etkin
Caitlyn Neufeld and Natasha Shubaly (grad13 students) both achieved Merits in the prestigious “One Show – Young Ones Competition” with their response to a brief from PETA – Caitlyn in the Corporate Identity Campaign category, and Natasha in the Product Design category. This is a worldwide contest open to design students in any year of any program, so this is an impressive result for second year students!
Caitlyn's PETA identity - click for full project
Natasha's tote bags - click for full project
You’re invited to meet the artists (IDEA second year students) at the opening of this Reflections exhibition, showcasing a wonderful selection of Vancouver scenic paintings. Paintings and calendars will be for sale.
6 – 8 pm
Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Ave
West Vancouver
The exhibition runs to April 29th from Tuesday through Sunday (11 am – 5 pm), and there is a second “Meet the artists” opportunity on April 23rd from 2-3 pm at the same location.
Everyone is invited to the gala opening on Monday, April 16, from 6 – 9pm at Harbour Centre, 555 W. Hastings St.
Come and celebrate the work of these exceptionally talented grads! We’d love to see you there.
Today the first year students had a chance to show their best work and to talk about their experiences in IDEA as they come to the end of a hugely busy year. Here are a few of the pieces they chose.
Soon-to-be-grads Samantha Smith and Markus Wreland each received a full page write-up in the latest Applied Arts magazine. Samantha’s project won the Adobe $2,000 scholarship, and Markus received an Honourable Mention. Congrats to both!
Come and support all the student finalists at this year’s awards on April 20 at 7:30 pm.
Congratulations to all the IDEA student winners in the national CAPIC Rodeo 4 Illustration and Photography awards this year! We look forward to the announcement of the top 3 prizes at this year’s gala in April. Stay tuned!
“Top 30″ finalists category:
Alexandra Gordeyeva (Grad 13)
Ksenia Kozhevnikova (Grad 14)
Shu Chen (Susan) Li (Grad 14) – three entries selected (one shown below)
David McAnsh (Grad 12)
Katie So (Grad 12) – two entries selected
Alex Tench (Grad 13)
by Shu Chen (Susan) Li
“Top 50″ finalists category:
Sharon Hsiao (Grad 12)
Karen Picketts (Grad 12)
Madison Tuff-Overes (Grad 13) (shown below)
Leah Vlemmicks (Grad 12)
Jack Wu (Grad 12)
by Madison Tuff-Overes
Second year student Becky Joy (grad 13) won the $1,000 first place prize for the design of this year’s Vancouver International Auto Show Poster with her submission “Parallels.” Judges loved the dramatic look of the stadium and the clever use of the reflection.
Second place went to Allison Chambers (grad 13) with her poster “Eye Candy.” Judges liked the strong use of colour and white space as well as the fun idea. Allison actually made the suckers!
Third place went to Cameron Sollows (grad 13) with his poster “Tomorrow’s Drivers.” Judges thought the use of real photography was eye-catching and the photo brought smiles to everyone.
For the final assignment in Digital Illustration II, the students were asked to create a promotional video for Capilano University’s IDEA program. The students developed their own concepts, created storyboards and produced a completed video over the last five weeks of the course using a combination of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects.
