March 2015 Archives

Student Design Competition Judging Day is Here!

All your hard work is complete, all the packages have been opened and processed, PDF entries have been printed, and all the entries have been numbered and organized by category ... and now the judges are here!!! Today is the official Judging Day for our 2015 Student Design Competition. Want a little peek behind the scenes? Check us out on Twitter where we're live-tweeting the whole thing: @SPDstudents

We'll have the winners selected by the end of the day, and we'll start contacting them next week. They'll be announced on the blog by mid-April.

Join the Ranks of Our Amazingly Successful Student Design Competition Winners!

For those of you still working on your Student Design Competition entries (remember, whether you send them by US Mail, FedEx, UPS, your own 2 feet, carrier pigeon, whatever ... entries must be in our office by 5pm on Monday, March 23), why not get a little extra motivation from seeing where some of our past winners have ended up ... you'll notice, even the runners-up have gone on to great things. And if your entries are done, do a little daydreaming about where YOUR winning entry could take you!

Check out our Q&As with the following past winners:
 
Geraldson Chua  // 2012 Competition, Honorable Mention
NOW: Senior Designer, O, the Oprah Magazine

T. Leclaire  // 2012 Competition, 2nd Place & Honorable Mention
NOW: Consulting Art Director

Christopher Allen  // 2012 Competition, 1st Place & 2 Honorable Mentions; 2013 Competition, Honorable Mention
NOW: Brand Strategist & Designer at Brave UX

Derek Eng  // 2010 Competition, 3rd Place & Honorable Mention; 2011 Competition, 2nd place
NOW: Designer, Travel + Leisure magazine

Raul Aguila  // 2009 Competition, 2nd and 3rd Place
NOW: Art Director, Wired magazine

Jason Sfetko  // 2008 Competition, 1st Honorable Mention
NOW: Deputy Art Director, The New York Times Magazine

Lou Vega  // 1999 Competition, 1st Place
NOW: Senior Art Director, Bloomberg Markets Magazine

Yarrow Earth Hock  // 1997 Competition, 2nd Place
NOW: Consulting designer and Graphic Artist

Gabriel Kuo  // 1996 Competition, 1st Place
NOW: Creative Director for House of Marley; Owner/Creative Director of his own design firm, The BRM

So Takahashi  // 1995 Competition, 2nd Place
NOW: Owner/Creative Director of his own design firm, Heads Inc

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Announcing our 2015 Student Design Competition Judges!

As our 2015 Student Design Competition deadline quickly approaches (Monday, March 23!!), we'd like to take a moment to introduce our amazing panel of judges! These are the folks who will be looking at each and every entry submitted and making the super-hard decision as to which ones rise to the top. 

Attending CMA's NYC15 Convention March 12/13? SPD-U Will Be There Too!

Once again, SPD-U is teaming up with the College Media Association at their annual spring national convention -- NYC15. We've got 9 talented speakers presenting 6 different sessions on Thursday, March 12 and Friday, March 13 AND we're judging and presenting a special design category in the Apple Awards.… MORE