Student Project Submission Information
Call for student project presentations (closed)
Several 15-minute presentations by design faculty of exceptional student projects they have assigned on the graduate, undergraduate or high school levels will be interspersed throughout the conference. These projects will be selected for their original and outstanding pedagogy, especially as related to small programs, new programs and non-urban programs. Although the formal quality of the student project solutions is important, the Design Frontier is especially interested in innovative pedagogy, rather than simply “eye candy”. Selected project examples will be published on the conference website. Please follow the Student Project Submission guidelines outlined below very carefully.
Peer review readers for student project presentations include:
- Margo Halverson
Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine - John Kjos
Community College of Denver, Denver, Colorado - Michael Arnold Mages
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Lakewood, Colorado - Chris St Cyr
Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida - John Gravdahl
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Student project presentation submission procedure All submissions must answer the following questions:
- What information was the project intended to teach? What problems did you witness in your students that this project was developed to address?
- How does this project differ in pedagogy from projects you have developed in the past, and/or from pedagogical practices employed by large and/or urban graphic design programs?
- How was the assignment articulated?
- What was the process that your students followed? How or why was that process determined?
- How did you evaluate the effectiveness of this project?
Submit a written description of the project, answering the questions above, 500 words maximum. Each individual submitter may propose only one project for consideration. From 3 to 6 images must accompany the written submission. (More images may be shown at the conference, if desired.) Where possible or pertinent, we are interested in seeing process as much as final result.
Student project presentation submission format
Please follow this format very carefully!
- Your submission must be formatted as a PDF, vertical letter-size multiple page file that includes both text and images. It is essential that your name and institution name not appear on the PDF, to facilitate the blind judging process. Please title your PDF file as an abbreviation of your student project title and use the file extension .pdf (example: titlename.pdf).
- Attach your submission PDF to an email titled “Design Frontier Student Project” in the subject line. In your email, include your student project title, your name, telephone, mailing address and email address.
Student project presentation submission deadline: September 29, 2006
Student project acceptance email notification: October 30, 2006
Student project final digital file (copy and images) deadline: December 2, 2006
Send student project presentation submission to Lisa Abendroth at abendrot@mscd.edu
Questions regarding the Student Project Presentation submission procedure may be sent directly to Lisa Abendroth at abendrot@mscd.edu
