Alumni Updates
Congratulations to Victor Nacif (ID-TR ‘79) on his new role as Vice President of Design for Nissan Design Europe. Victor will oversee all of NDE’s designers. To read more about Victor and his career, click here http://cardesignnews.com/site/designers/whos_where/display/store4/item193919/
Jason White (ID-TR ’99) was the subject of a recent feature on the Web site “Drivenmavens.com.” Check out the article here http://www.drivenmavens.com/2010/03/02/our-1st-featured-design-maven-hyundai-designer-jason-white/
Compliments to Pat Schiavone (ID-TR ’88) on his recent appointment as Head of Design for Whirlpool Corporation, North American Region.
Kevin Van Hooser (IL ’03) is now published. He is the illustrator for the book “We Need to Talk: Building Trust when Communication Gets Critical,” which is available for purchase through Amazon.
Check out the video created by Adam Hubers (ID-TR ’10) for the “I Love Detroit” Video Contest sponsored by Garden Court Condominiums. The contest winner will live rent-free in a Garden Court condo for one year and blog about daily adventures in the D. http://gardencourtvideocontest.com/video/ahuberslovesdetroit-1
Kudos to John Carlson (AD ’04) who recently won a Racie Award for his work on a direct mail piece celebrating ArtVan’s 50th anniversary. To learn more and see photos, follow this link. http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/news?newsID=342&;pager=3
Jamie Surgener (EA ’09) won a Best Editing Award at the Detroit International Film Festival (DIFF) for “AVABOT.” Watch a clip and read more here http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/news?newsID=343&;pager=3
Visual effects art director Alex Jaeger (ID-TR ‘93) recently released a series of instructional Vehicle Design DVDs. Check them out at http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/news/2010/03/new-vehicle-design-dvds-with-visual-effects-art-director-alex-jaeger/
An essay, "The Bay View Portfolio," was recently released by Michigan Public Radio featuring the photography of Robert Cleveland (PH ’74). The essay will also be incorporated into a book called “Bay View: An American Idea” in the near future. To view the project, visit this site http://michiganradiopictureproject.org/
Stephen Dinehart (EA ’01) will speak at the European Broadcasters Union event TEDxTransmedia this September in Geneva. Read more at www.tedxtransmedia.com
Concept artist Jeremy Melton (IL ’05) traveled to CCS from California to give a presentation on his successes since graduating to Illustration Department students. Jeremy has worked closely with high profile studios such as Vivendi Universal, Sony, Nickelodeon, Constantine Films, Pandemic Studios, and Zoic Studios. Jeremy also worked on many successful video game titles, and his film credits include “Pandora’s Yatch,” “Resident Evil 3,” “Dinosapians,” “The Best Player.” Recently, Jeremy worked on all the principle alien space craft for the TV series “V.” He has also started his own company, Crazy 8s Entertainment.
David Bollman (GC ‘79) was named as the 2010 Ducks Unlimited Sponsor Artist of the Year. Take a look at David’s work at www.davidbollman.com
