Designing Men
11/20/2009
Brandon Hunter '10 and Jake Mace's graphic design work won awards in the FLUX AIGA student competition. Jake won merit awards for two posters and Brandon won a merit award for a website design. AIGA is a professional association for design.
"I wanted to do posters about AIDS that would inspire giving to worthy organizations," Jake said. "Within the message I wanted to emphasize the fact AIDS is no longer an immediate death sentence and that there is as much effort given to help those with AIDS live healthy, fulfilling lives as there is to finding a cure. These posters will be donated to area AIDS organizations to use at their discretion."
To see Jake's designs, check: here.
"The Bower Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization in Bedford, Virginia," Brandon said. "The goals of the center are to promote the arts and arts education. The project was recommended to me by Beverly Rhoads, professor of art at LC. I worked on this client piece this past summer, meeting with the center periodically to review my progress. In the end, the center received a design that focused on large images and a clean grid. The website runs off of Wordpress, a popular blogging platform, giving the center the ability to edit their content on demand."
To see Brandon's work, check: here.
Award-winning Designs
04/01/2009
Graphic design majors Brandon Hunter and Carrie Britton were awarded ADDYs at the 2009 Western Virginia ADDY Awards celebration in Roanoke this spring, which celebrates local design work.
Brandon, a junior from Culpeper, Va., received a silver ADDY for a campaign poster design about war, and a silver ADDY for a logo design for Knakal's Bakery, a bakery in his hometown.
Carrie, a senior from Brookneal, Va., was awarded a silver ADDY for her logo and stationery package design for the Coffee Grounds, a fictitious coffee shop.
"Winning a student ADDY is a big deal, and we are really proud of our students who entered and won," said Ursula Bryant, assistant professor of graphic design at LC.
What Brandon says about his designs:
"Knakal's Bakery is one of the older businesses in the core of downtown (Culpeper). The business was opened in the 1970s and has been thriving since. The sign on the street is most likely dating back to the time of opening. Around Knakal's, businesses are sprouting up with beautiful signs, logos, and window decorations. Because of this, I decided to give Knakal's Bakery a new brand image: clean, contemporary, yet honest to its roots. The Knakal's Bakery logo is an embodiment of a traditional bakery sign. The whisk integrated into the letterform creates a unification between the older traditional bakery signs and the more contemporary type-based logos."
We Are America Poster
"I have immense respect and gratitude for those brave souls who offer their lives to make our world a better place. In these times of unrest it is important that we cherish human life and make decisions that better the world as a whole. I feel this role as caretaker has tainted American judgment, as seen in our most recent declaration of war. Soldiers are sent to the front lines only to return home months later with nightmares of screaming children. Ravaged homes, destitution, displacement; all common themes of the realms we leave behind. Such consequences are arguably necessary during war.
I feel lost when it comes to the Iraqi War. It is unjustified in my eyes, and any war that causes more destruction than good is a war not worth having. I am not concerned with offending, simply voicing an ideal of mine and aligning it as such with a political party that shares my views. The intense imagery and the scratchy and burnt feeling of the elements were ploys to contribute to a message of destruction, fire, and smoke."
Artwork censored removed from Schewel
Student art removed
CCHS grad displays blueprint for victory
09/10/2009
Artwork from the Schewel second floor display was removed due to controversy over the nature of the piece. Senior Brandon Hunter was informed last Friday that his piece would be removed because of a complaint that the piece may be offensive for some students. Hunter designed a Barack Obama campaign poster last year for an assignment in his graphic design class.
After receiving a complaint from a freshman student, a veteran and former medic who served in Iraq, Director of First-Year Programs Dr. Herbert Bruce requested that the piece be taken down, Bryant said.
The art department decided that the poster would be taken down, Bryant said. In her four years here Bryant said that she has never been asked to take artwork down.
09/17/2009
A Barack Obama campaign poster designed by senior Brandon Hunter was recently removed from the second floor art display in Elliot and Rosel Schewel Hall because of its controversial and, for some, offensive nature.
After receiving a complaint from a freshman student, Director of First-Year Programs Dr. Herbert Bruce contacted the art department about the piece to express the views on behalf of the freshman student.
"One freshman, a veteran and a former medic while serving in Iraq, reported to me that one of the items on display on second floor of Schewel bothers him greatly. He has lost several friends in Iraq and even though he knows the poster is a political statement, he also sees it as an insult to those who have lost their lives in this war," Bruce said in an e-mail to the chairs of the art and communication departments.
07/20/2009
A Lynchburg College junior won two national silver advertising awards during a ceremony in Roanoke in March for his creative designs.
Brandon Hunter, a 2004 Culpeper County High School graduate, received a 2009 Western Virginia ADDY (short for advertising) Award for his Knakal’s Bakery logo and an award for a political campaign poster.
“It’s a big deal to win these,” said Brandon, who submitted three designs. “It was really a good feeling. I wasn’t expecting to win two.”
The 23-year-old graphics design major chose the historic establishment to give the business a more modern look.