Drum Roll Please...

Yesterday was the opening of Auburn's Graphic Design Juried Student Exhibition in Biggin. The show was awesome and full of tons of talented student work. I'll let it explain itself:

"Each Spring Semester the Graphic Design Students put their best school work from the past academic year on display. This year we are hosting Auburn’s own Chad Bottcher as our guest juror and lecturer. Chad is the principal of MindVolt, the absolute finest, full-service design and advertising agency in North Alabama. Work from sophomore, junior and senior level students will be shown in Biggin Hall Gallery for the week."

The reception and opening was yesterday at 4:30 in the Biggin Gallery. The show will be up until Friday. Jessica Sabo, Daniel McCoy and Katie Rhea all had pieces in the show. I had a total of 4 get in as well.

After looking through all of the work each category was given an award (usually a sweet and expensive design book) as well as merit awards basically the runner up. The judge went through each category and in my head I though "Eh, not me." Then he got to the last category and talked about how he couldn't help but love this particular project and how practical it was in a business sense. He looked down at the book and said "Life Straw by Megan Forrester".

I was like "Whaaat?"

I won Best in Show for the Exhibition! How insane is that? I got to talk to the juror, Chad Bottcher after wards and he was extremely complimentary of the piece. To be honest I didn't even consider that to be one of my best pieces. I remember having a complete emotional break down the night before it was due! Just goes to show that God can turn even the smallest bad things into something good.

The project itself was re-designing the identity of a German product called LifeStraw. Basically it is a personal water filtration system in the shape of, you guessed it, a straw. We were assigned to create a complete identity and ad campaign then assemble it into a book aka an ID manual.

I will have pictures of the work up on my Flickr site soon!

In other news, the internship hunt is still ongoing. I have no heard a word from Relevant in 2 weeks. I have decided that if I don't hear a yay or nay after Spring Break then a follow up e-mail will be in order. I did hear from Erika and AIM and within the month, hopefully, we will get to meet and have coffee to discuss the possible internship opportunity.

In the meanwhile, I am doing some non-profit projects with Collaboration Reverberation (CR) in San Diego. It's been pretty sweet so far and I'm working on a logo identity for Elhelo which is an umbrella organization based in California that supports mission efforts. I'm also doing a T-shirt and banner design for Jireh Mission.

On top of that I'm finishing up a logo for Harding in Memphis as well as a new T-shirt design for our drama group Speak and more sign-age for my grandparent's auto shop in Opelika.

Busy busy busy!

Spring Break also begins this Friday. I'm headed to the lake with a group of my closest friends. We'll be back on Monday afternoon then I'm going to Birmingham on Tuesday to hang out with some people I haven't seen in ages. On Thursday I shall return then head off to Destin, Florida with my family until Saturday.

Well I better get back to work. I have a super hard lab practical in a few hours that I need to stuff as much information into my head as possible! As always, thanks for stopping by!