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This winter at Kent State, an art show and featured speaker on mental health will honor the life and legacy of assistant professor and artist Christopher Darling, who died June 2018.
The events will take place Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, hosted by the School of Visual…
The School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University has named Daniel Alenquer to the position of Director as of July 1.
The School of Visual Communication Design would like to recognize those students who have been awarded scholarships for the upcoming 2019-2020 academic year. These scholarships are awarded to students who show promise in the field of visual communication design.
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Kent State has placed in the top tier of the Effie Collegiate Brand Challenge from 2019-21 and in 2016. This competition gave students the chance to work with well-known brands like Subaru, Bose and V8. In 2019, advertising students earned second place for creating a marketing…
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An interdisciplinary team of Kent State University faculty will participate in a $13.3 million USAID grant to improve educational outcomes for Nigerian children, seeking to reach 200 schools and improve the teaching skills of over 5,000 teachers while impacting 200,000 students.
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Each year, the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) — the authoritative body for typography worldwide — assesses and evaluates visual communicators’ work. For the past three years, Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design (VCD) has hosted the…
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Enter the new magical world of “Zed,” and discover the work of a fine artist, professional illustrator and painter. Doug Goldsmith is an assistant professor in the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State.
Goldsmith was invited to collaborate on a new video game, “…
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A unique poetry partnership is helping to spread the “word” about migration, literally. Powerful and inspiring words are ringing throughout 11 cities in the United States.
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Chad Lewis, a graduate student in the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University, has hammered out a career in illustration by penning his version of Thor’s origin story for the latest Marvel Avengers comic.