Department of Design

Columbus Society of Communicating Arts, Creative Best 2004

The Department of Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communications Design played a major role in the recent awards competition sponsored by the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts. CSCA’s Creative Best event, held this year at the Columbus College of Art & Design, is the top design competition in central Ohio, celebrating the best in local creative design, photography, illustration, and writing.

Awards were recently announced, and included OSU Design students Mark Potnick, Kazuma Omura, Michelle Byle, Alexa Andrzejewski, Mindi Davis, Greg Aylsworth, Yutaka KogamiGeorge Waite, David Byers, Christopher Garbe, Riley Raker, and Darwin Muljono. In the professional category, alumni and lecturers who were honored included Keith Novicki, Conor McFerran, Megan Graham, Tery Rohrbach, Jenn Stevens, Garrick Reischman, Brandon King, Aileen Aquino, Dave Bull, Eric Shank, Matt Jeffries, Liz Kiefer, Peter Gerstman, Corey Tomasso, Denis Bajec, Jesse Bulger, and Ben Lamb.

Two of the four judges picked as their favorite the Type in Motion entry of Mark Potnick.

In all, 173 entries received awards. Ohio State students, faculty, or alumni were represented on 59 of these awards, including 1 of the 3 Judges Favorite awards, both of the student Best awards, 6 of the 9 student Excellence awards, and 13 of the 40 student Merit awards, 1 of the 4 professional Best awards, 8 of 22 professional Excellence awards, and 28 of 95 professional Merit awards.



	"We work together, eat together, play together; we're like family." Lindsay Rego, junior industrial design major on her 18-student class, quoted in a February 28 article in the Columbus Dispatch [more] Emeritus Professor and former Department Chair Charles Wallschlaeger was given the Industrial Design Society of America Educator Award this year [more] A reception for new students accepted for 2008/09 will be held at Evans Lab, Room 2004 on March 26 at 4:30. Design Circle will host a pizza reception at Donatos on High Street immediately following. All students who successfully passed the entrance exam are invited to attend, as are all current Design students. Our 40th year celebrations begin February 11 and continue into next fall. Go to the [article] in our [newsletter] for more information and scheduled events. The Design Department has released its latest newsletter, Quick Sketches. [more] The Design Department is searching for a tenure track faculty member to serve as Foundations Studies Coordinator. [more] OSU Design Department Industrial Design undergrad program ranked #3 nationally by DesignIntelligence survey; graduate program ranked #10. [more] Tha Computer Animation and Visualization graduate program is now called the Digital Animation + Interactive Media program. For more information, visit the ACCAD site [here] The Department now offers an undergraduate Minor in Industrial, Interior and Visual Communications Design. [more] New Design Undergraduate Research page now online. [more] Student discounted Macintosh and Windows laptop bundles for design students. [purchase options]

	College of the Arts [Technology Help Desk] Answers to "Frequently Asked Questions" can be found at [design.osu.edu/faq.html] Download the Graduate Application Form [here] Download the complete graduate program information documents [here]. If you are applying for the Digital Animation + Interactive Media (formerly Computer Animation and Visualization) area of emphasis, download the DAIM program information [here] Download the undergraduate program information documents [here] For current Design Graduate students: Download the Graduate Handbook [here] e-mail the chairperson directly [carlson.8@osu.edu], or submit your input or request anonymously [here]. 9

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