from the Co-chairs, John and Peter
2020 brought us some unique challenges.
Around the same time we were finalizing the details for our show, we became aware of the precautions necessary for the COVID-19 outbreak. In very short order, the faculty transitioned to online course delivery, learned some neat new pieces of software, and found out about the local, state, and national responses to the crisis.
In the following weeks, we discovered how truly appropriate all the measures were, with the virus impacting the entire world.
An administrative decision made quite early (a very wise decision) was to cancel all public events. The large gala event that was scheduled had to be scaled back to an online-only event. Thankfully— students responded amidst all the other changes in their lives, and the adage: “The show must go on…” became prophetically fulfilled.
We hope you enjoy this version of the 2020 Online District-wide Student Design Show.
A few facts about this year’s show:
- About 170 pieces were submitted
- Students were to limit their submissions to 5 per student
- Qualifying student work was to have been created between April 7, 2019 through March 27, 2020; with the student enrolled in coursework from
Summer 2019 through Spring 2020. - The submission CATEGORIES (from MOST submissions per category) were:
LOGOS, PACKAGING, Identity, ~23%
LAYOUT, ~19%
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION, ~17%
PHOTOGRAPHY with post-processing, ~13%
PHOTOGRAPHY w/o post, ~8%
TRADITIONAL MEDIA, ~6%
CAMPAIGN and 3D, ~ 2.4% each
the remaining categories were under 2%
