A+GD student project makes the evening news

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A+GD Students Taking it to the Streets

Central Piedmont Community College's (CPCC) Advertising + Graphic Design students will stage an awareness campaign for Samaritan House on the southwest corner of Trade and Tryon Streets November 2 -4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. The theme of this campaign is "the streets are no place for hospital beds." Through the campaign, the students, who are in Deanna Campbell's Advertising Copywriting class, will create a 'homeless camp' to illustrate where a homeless citizen might take shelter while trying to heal from cancer surgery, brain trauma injuries, broken bones, etc. The event is timed to coincide with the Samaritan House's annual campaign fund drive, as the organization prepares to celebrate its 5th anniversary of serving the Charlotte community.

Samaritan House is a not-for-profit, interfaith recuperative care place for people who are homeless and in need a short term care following a hospital or emergency room stay. Samaritan House takes guest referrals from Charlotte-Mecklenburg hospitals, and provides its services at no cost to the guest. Samaritan House does not take insurance money, or funding from local, state or federal agencies. Samaritan House survives on recurring donations from individuals, faith-based organizations and charitable grants.

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CPCC AIGA Student Group

23 students in A+GD have come together to organize the area's first AIGA Student Group. Congratulations to their leaders: Aaron, Kat, Andrea and Robin. Thanks for all their support to CPCC Student Life, especially Amanda and Alyssa, and to AIGA Charlotte, for all of their assistance.

Watch this space. Good things will be coming from this new student group.

Good designers are open minded and comfortable with ambiguity

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Take your mom to this movie.

It will go a long way towards explaining what business you're in.

How to Get a Job in Advertising (a good job)

What is the most important thing for advertising students?

"It’s passion, Scott. The one thing I can’t teach.

"We (the program) work them to the bone to see if they really want it, and my faculty and myself have a passion to share every day in class – but every year I have kids with A+ averages come into this program and I feel for them, because if they don’t breath and sleep advertising all the A’s in the world won’t save them.

"I hope that doesn’t sound like there is nothing to teach. This is after all a professional business and a major force in economic culture, but at the end of the day when all the teaching is done – passion is the only factor that really creates the success stories." (my emphasis)

Read the entire article by Scott Goodson here!

10 Essentials Every Design Student Should Know

"Design students think a lot. They want to know exactly what the future has in store, particularly during this time of economic uncertainty. They want to understand whether there is anything consequential – an essential truth – that will insure their place in design’s future. So, a year ago, before the bottom fell out of the financial markets, we set out to identify 100 essential concepts that design students could agree were important. We surveyed graduate and undergraduate design students, primarily from the MFA Designer as Author program at School of Visual Arts, to determine what issues are foremost on their minds and narrowed them down to the following top ten essentials."

Read all about it at Print Magazine here!

A+GD Alum Nabbed by Police

Marlon Witherspoon, one of our alums, was featured in an article about the Police Activities League, "the Police Activities League (PAL), a local non-profit organization that enriches lives through academics and athletics," in the August 25, 2009 edition of the Charlotte Observer. In case you missed it, here are the good parts:

The new look of the organization will also be unveiled during the event with an updated logo and website. Marlon Witherspoon, designer of the logo and a guest speaker at the event, has a special connection to the organization - he was a participant in the PAL program.

"When we learned of Marlon's involvement as a PAL student and his successes now as an adult, it was testament to the goals PAL instills in its participants." said Hood. "We are very proud to have him help dedicate this new beginning for our organization."

The Changing Concept of Design

"Design has become the engine of innovation, giving mere ideas shape and substance. It has evolved into the highest form of communication, turning ideas into solutions." -- Andrian Kreye

Read all about it here: http://designmind.frogdesign.com