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The Show Is Over!

The show was just deinstalled yesterday. Be expecting work sent to your schools in the next week or so. Thanks to everyone!

Our AIGA shirts arrived!

Just in time for St. Pat's Day! If you are a member of the AIGA or are soon going to be (membership drive and renewal coming soon) you are entitled to a shirt!

Design by AIGA officer Will Bryant!

Interview: Beverly Hayman

Beverly is a student at Mississippi State University.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
Helvetica Nue Ultra-Light

What is your drawing pen of choice?
Pilot V5

What do you like to listen to while you design?
Bat for Lashes, El Perro del Mar, Mirah, Panda Bear, Jens Lekman, Madeleine Peyroux, Múm, Grizzly Bear, etc.

Who are your primary design influences?
Jen Corace, Kathryn Spence, Kate Bingaman-Burt

List three websites you visit daily:
Flickr.com, Facebook.com, Gmail.com

Interview: J.T. Hamman

J.T. Hamman is a student at Mississippi State University.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
Arial! Ha, or NOT! Lately I've been using a lot of Haettenschweiler; but i don't play favorites. I'm all about some randomness, so I'll pick a font use it for awhile, then switch it up.

What is your drawing pen of choice?
FORAY Roller Tip Pen 0.5 mm

What do you like to listen to while you design?
Pepper, Dispatch, or Presidents of the United States

Who are your primary design influences?
The surrealism of Rene Magritte, photomontage of John Heartfield, and anybody with funny clever advertising campaign skills.

List three websites you visit daily:
You mean besides facebook and myspace? Geesh.. that's a tough one. Etsy.com, Ebay.com, and of course my Gmail.com.

Is there anything else you would like us to know…interesting facts, awards or accomplishments?
Uhmm, just recently found out my watercolor self-portrait was an Illustration Winner in CMYK #40! Also won an ADDY for my MAAE Campaign.

Interview: Jeremy Wisecup

Jeremy is a student at Missouri State University.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
Sans-Serif - Avant Garde | Serif - Bodoni

What is your drawing pen of choice?
Mechanical pens as i call them. ( I think the technical name is a Pigment Ink pen)

What do you like to listen to while you design?
Just about anything. Im a big fan of Modest Mouse, and i take in a lot from their songs and use it for inspiration.

Who are your primary design influences?
everyday surroundings. everyday life experiences.

List three websites you visit daily:
newstoday.com
itsnicethat.com

The show is INSTALLED! RIGHT ON!

Hey everybody! The show is installed! Check out some more flicks here!

Many thanks to all of the super workers this weekend who put in a ton of time and effort to get this amazing show off the ground!

Team Lightening Bolt took care of all of the tags, programs, posters, cutting and mounting! Holy Cow!

Team Design and Build took care of making new shelves and tables! Wowowowow!

Team Hang the Show, well, they hung the dang show! Huzzah!

March 6th is the opening in the Union Gallery! It starts at 5:30! Be sure to attend to see all of the great work with your own eyeballs and then everyone is welcome to the Public Design Center at 7pm for some food and soireeing (totally not I word, I know this). If you need directions to the Public Design Center just shoot me an email.

Good Job Everyone!

Interview: Holly Cook

Holly is a student at Auburn University.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
trade gothic / akzidenz grotesk / fournier...i can't pick

What is your drawing pen of choice?
blackwell oblique holder with a nikko nib

What do you like to listen to while you design?
Jens Leckman...Feist...Amelie sountrack...Arcade Fire...The National... Broken Social Scene...the Lady Vanishes...Marie Antoinette Soundtrack and lots of classical music...

Who are your primary design influences?
Matteo Bologna...Ellen Lupton...Louise Fili...Mohawk promotional samples...The Pushpin guys (I look at their book daily)...Paula Scher...Michael Vanderbyl

List three websites you visit daily:
tigermail.auburn.edu
amazon.com
anthropologie.com

Is there anything else you would like us to know…interesting facts, awards or accomplishments?
i have really short hair...i love wallpaper...i have more books than anyone else in senior project...i am the bomb at wii bowling...i have a really awesome roommate (b.lesch)...i love chocolate and cheese...and tea parties...i am going to be a bridesmaid 7 times this year...

Interview: Hugo Martinez

Hugo is a student at Watkins College of Art and Design.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
I can't say. I like egyptian fonts as of late, but to keep it old school, Franklin Gothic.

What is your drawing pen of choice?
Whichever is available

What do you like to listen to while you design?
Sometimes Salsa music, but lately, soul, and 40's thru 60's R&B, like Ray Charles. Ray LaMontagne is also on my playlist. I really don't want to trim my list to just these three genres. There is so much amazing music.

Who are your primary design influences?
I really like a lot of corporate work, like Chermayeff and Geysmar. I am enjoying looking at Swedish and Japanese design. I like British advertising because it gets to the point really quickly.

List three websites you visit daily:
Pandora.com is really cool for finding great new music. I really don't like browsing online. I don't find this medium super enjoyable, though there are some amazingly designed sites out there. Unfortunately, everything else I check out is my e-mail @ Yahoo.com, and see my friends on Myspace.com.

Is there anything else you would like us to know…interesting facts, awards or accomplishments?
My love of design is continuing to grow the more I do it.

Interview: Shannon Leutzinger

Shannon is a student at Auburn University.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
Optima

What is your drawing pen of choice?
Sanford Eagle Pencil 2B

What do you like to listen to while you design?
Any of the songs that shuffle through on my Pandora.com radio stations.

Who are your primary design influences?
Piet Mondrian and other members of DeStijl; Claude Monet and other Impressionistic artists; Asian art

List three websites you visit daily:
My Auburn University webmail
weather.com
facebook.com

Is there anything else you would like us to know…interesting facts, awards or accomplishments?
I am an identical twin, and I have known since I was four-years old that I wanted to be an artist. For career day in Kindergarten, everyone in my class got dressed up as what we wanted to be. Mom suggested I go as an artist, because “it is what you are going to be when you grow up anyway.” I agreed with her and went as an artist. Now 15 years later I am majoring in graphic design at Auburn University. I was in Girl Scouts for 12 years, earned my Girl Scout Gold Award, and am now a lifetime member and still volunteer with local troops. A co-worker gave me my nickname, Tiny Might. She said “for such a tiny person, she does a mighty big job.” I love to be outside in nature and go walking eight miles a day just to take a break from school work and my internship. I am famous throughout Auburn and am known by many as “that girl who walks.”

Interview: Will Bryant

Will is a student at Mississippi State University.

What is your all-time favorite typeface?
Helvetica...duh

What is your drawing pen of choice?
pilot v5

What do you like to listen to while you design?
black dice, animal collective, deerhunter, panda bear, justice, beach house

Who are your primary design influences?
mike perry, supermundane, damien correll, henry darger,thinkmule, steven harrington, i would say ray fenwick but he's a judge so NOT ray.

List three websites you visit daily:
itsnicethat.com, gorillavsbear.net, manystuff.org

Is there anything else you would like us to know…interesting facts, awards or accomplishments?
i like to D.A.N.C.E. and deejay as The Hooded Deer. oh and i'm engaged! BOOYA!