While working a graphic design internship with Fight Colorectal Cancer, Leigh Stracener experienced firsthand how art can make an impact. The internship gave Leigh an outlet to use design skills to spread important awareness for a life-saving organization, and it also happened to included an opportunity to travel across the country to share the message. A sea of blue flags were … [Read more...] about Design for Change: Internships that Make an Impact
Graphic Design and Illustration majors are frequently finding opportunities to add international exhibition recognition to their resumés. Most recently, a group of students and faculty participated in Typozone /4/, an international exhibition based out of Eger, Hungary. Missouri State University was represented as the only university from the United States among 10 other … [Read more...] about Design Area Represented in Hungarian Typography Exhibition
It was passion for art and a connection to Missouri State that inspired Julie Mason's design for the Be A Bear T-shirt contest. Julie, like other graphic design students, was assigned the task of creating a T-Shirt for class. “I was just looking at some T-shirts I liked, just the traditional college T-shirt you would see in the bookstore. I looked at some posters and got … [Read more...] about Julie Mason: Creating memories that transcend a lifetime
Alex Gaebler, a senior graphic design major from Poplar Bluff, is no stranger to seeing her designs on apparel in stores. And yet, the possibility of seeing her Be a Bear design in the MSU bookstore brings a whole new level of excitement. Gaebler has worked for an apparel design company in her hometown called Southeast Signs and Graphics since she was 15-years-old. When her … [Read more...] about Alex Gaebler: Celebrating the diverse MSU community through a vintage design
During a visiting artist’s Japanese printmaking workshop, Maria Gerasimchuk-Djordjevic and Eric Pervukhin take a moment to ‘pose’. For nearly 30 years, Eric Pervukhin has been an integral part of the Art + Department—not only because of his exceptional teaching skills, but also his charismatic personality and continuous desire to encourage. Those who had the … [Read more...] about Commemorating 29 years at MSU, Eric Pervukhin