2008 ADDY Awards Recipients

Current and former Glyphix students have just learned they will be receiving numerous awards from the Advertising Federation of Greater Akron at the 2008 ADDY Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on March 7 at the Radisson Hotel, Akron City Centre. Check back after that date to find out the specifics. Congratulations to the following students and alumni!

Lee Zelenak & Mike Fofrich will receive an award for their work on the Hudson Montessori School playground appeal brochure and for the VCD website. Assisting in research and development of the website were Chris Haas, Mike Watson, Chris Surak and Kelly Dorsey. Programming was done by David Roll.

Mike Fofrich, Kristie Underwood, and Chris Haas will receive an award for their work on the Kent State University Alumni Relations Membership Campaign.

David Roll and Niki Katz will receive an award for their work on the Green Energy Ohio Solar Tour Guide article layout: “Waste To Energy Reinvented.”

Kaitlyn Ord, Jess Mellen, and Dusty Steinbrink will receive and award for their work on The Intergenerational School Annual Report.

For further questions or information, please contact Valora Renicker, Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Communication Design and the Creative Director of the student-staffed Glyphix, at vrenicke@kent.edu or 330-672-2854.

Feb. 13. 2008.

VCD Wins Big at ADDY Awards

On February 23, 2007, Kent State University students from the School of Visual Communication Design received a total of five Addy Awards from the Advertising Federation of Greater Akron. This competition honors creative excellence within the advertising industry. Local Addy awards are given in 15 categories and can advance to the district and national levels.

Graduate Student Kelly Dorsey won a Silver award in the Student category for her design of a summer workshop poster for the School of VCD. Glyphix, the student design studio in VCD, received two Silver level awards in the Student category, as well as garnering two of the three Judge's Choice Awards for the overall competition. Graduate student Lee Zelenak was honored with Kelly Dorsey (Silver and Judge's Choice) for the design of a poster promoting the School's graduate program. The other Judge's choice award and a Silver award was received by the team responsible for a printed brochure and a short multi-media piece for the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising 2006 Fashion Show. That team was comprised of Lee Zelenak, and undergraduate students Mike Fofrich, Kristi Underwood, and Rachel Adkins.

In his comment about the VCD Graduate Program Promotional Poster, Judge Jon Eslinger stated, "There is rarely a case of less is more that will be more evident than this poster. The simple use of two words to make a profound statement made this poster not only effective, but unique,'' said Eslinger, art director at Vision Creative in Lansing, Mich.

The Judges' Choice Award from Tom Hayes was awarded for the Fashion Show Brochure and Video. Mr. Hayes is president of the Treasure Coast Ad Fed and account executive at WPEC News 12 in West Palm Beach, Fla.

"The students work hard to produce top-level design solutions all the time. This competition gives the individual award winners, as well as other students in the our School, an important validation of their studies. To have their efforts recognized so highly at a professional level competition is a wonderful opportunity for us to share information about our excellent program with the Kent State community and beyond," said Valora Renicker, Creative Director of Glyphix.

Glyphix in the 2005 AIGA Pittsburgh 100 show.

Jerad Lavey and Tony Lindemann had their brochure design for Near West Theatre accepted into the AIGA Pittsburgh 100 Show. Only 100 design projects were accepted into the exhibition, which was juried by nationally recognized designers.

WhiteSpace Invites KSU Students to Assist in 24-Hour CreateAThon™

AKRON, OH - September 8, 2006 - WhiteSpace Creative, a 20-member Akron-based marketing resource firm, will team up with Kent State University's student design and illustration studio, Glyphix, for its fifth-annual CreateAThon™ event. The intense, 24-hour marathon will provide probono marketing and communication services to 19 local organizations, as well as a New Orleans nonprofit devastated by Hurricane Katrina. CreateAThon will be held from 8 a.m. on September 14 to 8 a.m. on September 15, 2006.

Glyphix is a student design and illustration studio concentrating on visual communication design. Based at Kent State University, it has a history of providing services primarily for nonprofit organizations, such as hospitals, schools and public agencies. The staff is composed of 10 senior and graduate students in the Visual Communication Design program.

During this year's CreateAThon, members of Glyphix will be working side-by-side WhiteSpace staff in the development of marketing and communication materials for a variety of nonprofits, such as Hospice of Medina County, Metro Regional Transit Authority, Portage Animal Protective League, Project GRAD Akron and The Eyes Have It! of New Orleans. Projects will range from website development and public service announcements to direct mail, advertisements, identities and brochures “all created in one ongoing 24-hour period.”

"In addition to helping the community, CreateAThon will give our students valuable, hands-on agency experience," says Valora Renicker, Glyphix faculty advisor. "They'll see firsthand how an agency works, particularly the high level of communication and teamwork involved."

Established in 1994, WhiteSpace Creative is a full-service communications firm with specialties that include marketing the nonprofit sector. Its primary focus is to deliver fresh solutions to today's marketing challenges. Based in the historic district of downtown Akron, WhiteSpace has been the exclusive CreateAThon agency for Northeast Ohio since 2002.