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About Design Show

AU Design Show is an annual exhibition of student work from the AU Graphic Design program, put on by the Design Club↓

Any student who has taken a design class, from foundational to advanced, can submit. Submitted work is then judged by a select panel of designers.

Judges

This year's judges are all connected to DC—local designers based in the area and our own AU GDES alums.

The judges scored over 50 submissions, with each submission score added up to determine this year's selected pieces. The highest scoring works of each category are featured as Best in Show, works scoring second-highest awarded Runner Up.

Alice Packard

Product Design Prototyper

Portfolio
Alice works at FiscalNote as a prototyper on their UX research team. She's passionate about file hygiene, all things Figma, and the sparkle emoji ✨ She's been keeping busy in quarantine by designing beer labels for Red Bear Brewing and playing lots of Stardew Valley.

Brigitta Blair

Lead UX/UI Designer

Portfolio @brigittablair
Lead UX/UI Designer by trade and storyteller by heart, Brigitta is spearheading the design system and accessibility initiative at FINRA Formerly an agency devotee, she has worked with companies such as McDonald's, Toyota, and Red Cross. When she's not working, you can find her designing characters for a virtual reality game or bringing to life her first children's book.

Eric Smallwood

UX Lead, Somo Global US

LinkedIn
As the UX Lead for Somo Global’s US contingent, Eric’s experience as a designer, arts researcher, educator, and entrepreneur includes clients such as Audi, Volkswagen Credit, NASA, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the National Science Foundation. He is a TEDCO Innovation Initiative and CMS Honor award recipient and in his spare time enjoys playing guitar, woodturning, and smoking delectable meats.

Nathan Keeys

Freelance Creative Technologist

Website @nate_keeys
Nathan Keeys is a Freelance Creative Technologist, Designer, and Assistant Instructor at GWU's full-stack Bootcamp. Nathan has worked in the creative industry for 8+ years designing and developing creative web solutions for clients such as Giant, MGM National Harbor, Accenture and National Children's Hospital.

Tate Strickland

Product Designer at Facebook

Portfolio
Tate Strickland is a designer specializing in analytics and data-oriented user experiences. His work can be seen on Google AdSense and YouTube Creator Studio, and he was a member of the design faculty at American University from 2012 to 2015. He currently works for Facebook in London.

William Colgrove

Chief Creative Officer, Threespot

@threespot
In addition to co-founding and running Threespot William has designed the flagship sites for the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National Park Service.

About

AU Design Club

AU Design Club provides undergraduate students a way to get critique, share resources, and become more involved in the AU and DC design community. Anyone from AU is welcome—no need to be a design major or minor!

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EXECUTIVE BOARD 2021

Ben Black

President/Website Designer
BEST IN SHOW
GDES/Studio Art '22

Rosie Haase

Vice President
GDES/PR '22

Cailynn Adelman

Marketing Coordinator
PR/Marketing '23

Shachar Rosenblatt

Assistant Marketing
Coordinator
GDES/Marketing '23

Logan Forbis

Secretary
Journalism/GDES '23

Christopher Hopkins

Assistant Secretary
Computer Science '21

About

American University Graphic Design

The design program teaches the theory and practice of graphic communications design. Our courses cover publication and editorial design, corporate identity, packaging, illustration, poster design, multimedia, experience and interactive design, and more.

www.american.edu/cas/graphic-design

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