Alumni News
Crain's Detroit Business has launched an online survey targeted at metro Detroit’s creative companies as the initial step to promote and support the region's creative economy. The survey is an element of Detroit Renaissance Inc.’s $80 million Road to Renaissance economic revitalization plan for Southeast Michigan.
Ann Redner Creative, an international corporate identity design firm owned by CCS alumnus Ann Redner, Graphic Communication ’85, has won the 2007 American Graphic Design Award for creation of a new business announcement for TerraFirma located in Los Angeles. This is the third year in a row that Ann Redner Creative has won this prestigious award.
CCS alumna Michelle Hinebrook will lecture at the College on Monday, February 18 at 12:30 p.m. in room C204 in the Kresge-Ford Building. Michelle will discuss her current work, which is in a show at the David Klein Gallery in Birmingham.
In celebration of CCS Homecoming 2007, the College hosted an alumni reception and art show on campus. An impressive group of alums gathered for the reception in the Yamasaki Building to see the work of their peers and to catch up with each other over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. This occasion was just one in a series of Alumni Reunion events recently hosted by CCS. President Rick Rogers and other staff members were delighted to meet with alumni at each of these events and to hear about the exciting accomplishments of former CCS students.
CCS Advertising Design alumni, Sanja Dardagan ’07 and Kelly MacArthur ’06, both on the creative team at Leo Burnett Detroit, recently completed their first television commercial for Pontiac. The spot, titled Details depicts Pontiac’s GXP Series in a highly stylized world of black and white. The commercial made its national debut during Saturday college football games in September.
CCS Illustration alumnus Dustin Papow, ’07, recently had his piece, “Bolero,” selected for the Spectrum Annual 14. The Spectrum Annual, established in 1993, showcases the best fantasy, science fiction, horror, and otherwise uncategorizable artwork created each year.
CCS Graphic Design alumnus Ed Fella, an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography, was recently awarded the AIGA Medal. After three decades as a successful commercial artist Fella received his degree from CCS in 1985, he continued on to receive an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Fella has spent the last 20 years as a professor at California Institute of the Arts, where he has profoundly impacted the design program.
