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Generations: Work by Current Faculty, Emeriti, and Selected Alumni of Kutztown University

September 13 - October 11, 2009
Reception: Thursday, Sept. 17, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

This exhibition will feature artwork by 43 artists who have defined the Art Education & Crafts, Communication Design, and Fine Arts programs at Kutztown University. The exhibition will include works in a variety of mediums by 30 current faculty members, 7 emeriti faculty, and 6 selected alumni. CD's selected alumni are graphic designer Laurie (Gottstine) DeMartino and illustrator Tom Hallman.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Monday, Closed

Luba Lukova Lecture!

Thursday, October 8, 2009
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
McFarland Student Union Building

Details to come soon.

The David Bullock Return of the CD Grads 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
McFarland Student Union Building

Each year the Communication Design Department hosts two of our distinguished graduates to come back to KU and speak about their careers.

This year’s presenter’s Adam Kucharik and Katie Cleaver will discuss working in the Interactive Design field.

Brad Holland Exhibit and Lecture

October 22 - November 22, 2009
Reception: Thursday, Oct. 22, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Brad Holland (born 1943) is an American illustrator, best known for his work for Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Holland has won more awards presented by the New York Society of Illustrators than any other illustrator in its long history. In 2005 he was elected to the NYSI Hall of Fame. The American illustrator Mark English has called Holland "the most important illustrator in American today."

Visit Brad's site here.

39th Annual UCDA Design Competition award winners!

Essence Magazine was entered in the UCDA (University & College Designers Association) national design competition and won an "Award of Excellence" for the Student Published Work category.

The judges evaluated 1300 print entries and chose 257 for awards (only 9 gold and 9 silver were given). Essence is advised by Prof. Kate Clair and designed by students; Jeremy Cresswell, Jenna Palermo, Scott Nothwehr, Lacey Christman, Ross Moody, Jon patrizi and Katie Zimmer.

CD alumus Sean Allsion won for his Fresh Baked promotion for the CD senior Portfolio Day.

CD alumi Matt Twombly and Kaitlin Carita won in the Senior Portfolio category.

CD student Bill Riedel won for his McPiggly CD Lab Poster.

Another Hallmark greeting card finalists announced!

Recent CD alumna Janel Derr has had her greeting card design selected to be one of the finalists in the yourBloopers card design competition. Check the finalists out by clicking here

KU first super high-res image taken by Google satellite.

Read about it at Wired online.

Sharadin expansion and renovations complete!

CD space was completed for school beginning August 2008, Sharadin has doubled in size and will be fully renovated giving us a fresh look and greater capability to continue providing an excellent education in the arts. Watch the progress on the construction webcam (check out the time-lapse feature — very cool!).

AIGA Student Chapter website.

Check it out at www.kutztown.edu/activities/clubs/aiga/

Past Events

4th Annual Designathon!

Another great success! This year’s Designathon was held April 3rd and 4th. We look forward to next year. Thank you everyone for your help.

Herb Lubalin & Expressive Type Lecture.

March 26 at 7 p.m. in the SUB Alumni Auditorium, Ilene Strizver, well known typographer and author of “Type Rules! the designer’s guide to professional typography” presented “Herb Lubalin & Expressive Typography” as part of our Gourmet Typography event.
www.thetypestudio.com

The David Bullock Return of the CD Grads 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
McFarland Student Union Building

Each year the Communication Design Department hosts two of our distinguished graduates to come back to KU and speak about their careers.

This year’s presenter’s Ryan Riccitelli and Summer Doll will discuss living and working in NYC.

Ryan Riccitelli (1999 KUCD Grad)
Ryan Riccitelli is an award-winning art director with a decade of advertising experience in New York City. At agencies including Ogilvy, Hill Holliday, DraftFCB and EuroRSCG, he has teamed with some of the most talented people in the business. Ryan’s creative reach spans print, outdoor, direct marketing, and interactive. His concepts have helped build a wide range of brands, including Verizon, IBM, Sanofi-Aventis, Lincoln Center, and the New York Public Library.

Ryan graduated cum laude in 1999 with a major in Communication Design, a minor in Advertising, and a dream of living and working in New York. He is currently a Senior Art Director at EuroRSCG, and lives in Manhattan with his wife, Krista.

Summer Doll (2001 KUCD Grad)
After graduating in 2001 from KU with dual concentration in advertising and graphic design, Summer’s main goal was to get a job in advertising in NYC. After 9/11 it was hard to get a job in the city. But after going on many interviews and a few interesting jobs along the way...she finally landed a full time job as a Jr. Art Director at FCB in the city. She was there for a year and a half. For the past 5 years Summer has moved up the ranks at Grey Healthcare Group to Art Supervisor. Working on various accounts from professional to consumer and now working on her first commercial. In 2007, Summer graduated from Marywood University with an MFA.

mr. warburton’s semi-triumphant return to kutztown cartoon film fest

1990 KUCD grad presents his work and speaks about his sooper career as an animator.
Friday, October 24, 7:30 P.M.
Alumni Auditorium in the McFarland Student Union Building

Attendance is free but a ticket is required. KU students, faculty and staff can pick up tickets at the SUB Information Desk starting September 29. Tickets available to general public at the SUB Information Desk starting October 14.

Mr. Warburton is the creator of cartoon network’s sooper giant hit original series codename: kids next door. A total of 80 action packed episodes were made at New York's curious pictures along with the mega-giant TV movie-operation: ZERO!
Mr. Warburton has previously served as a director for cartoon network's ‘sheep in the big city’, lead character designer for Disney’s ‘Pepper Ann.’, and spent five years at commercial studio J.J. Sedelmaier productions where he served as production designer on MTV’s ‘Beavis and Butthead’, director on new episodes of ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ and Saturday Night Live’s ‘tv funhouse’ and stayed up late animating lots of commercials for clients such as Levi’s, Converse, Volkswagon and Slim Jim.

Mr. Warburton currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his sooper hero wife and two sooper powered sons.

He is 12 years old.

For more good stuff about Tom checkout:
http//warburtonlabs.blogspot.com/

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