Portfolio Center photography students are creating the gallery of images for the upcoming GOLD exhibit at Fernbank Museum of Natural History.

We’re very excited about this unique, real-world opportunity, especially since it’s the first time a school has partnered creatively with Fernbank in this way. The exhibit’s curators have given the students a lot of latitude to interpret the history, symbolism, and cultural significance of ‘gold,’ so the images—which will hang in the show’s entrance gallery and set the tone for the exhibit—include everything from mining to gold medalists to golden light.

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Congratulations to Abby Brewster, Hiren Dedhia, Kinzie Hamer, Janavi Kothar, Ben Krantz, Domenic Pagalilauan, Jennifer Peake, Rachel Strubinger, and Timothy Young, our Portfolio Center student winners of the 2009 SEED awards. This year’s judges were Sylvie Hamel, manager of Brand Communications for UPS; Ellen Lupton, writer, curator, and design leader; Art Roche, creative director at Smart Bomb; and Pamela Zucker, partner and co-founder of Principle. See all the winning projects in the video below.

SEED ‘09 Student Winners from AIGA Atlanta on Vimeo.

Congratulations to Portfolio Center copywriter Adam Hook for winning the 2009 VEER scholarship. Each year, the New York Art Directors Club chooses only one advertising student from all of the accredited programs in the country for this national award, and we are so proud of Adam for bringing this home.

To read more about the Art Directors Club and their student scholarship programs, click here.

To learn more about Adam and his work, click here.

Check out Atlanta designer, Portfolio Center alum, and current PC instructor Mimi Tin’s latest (ad)venture. Her new line of sushi-inspired ottomans were a project ten years in the making. The first prototype was made after she took the Design History class during her fifth quarter as a student here at school. The time from then to now has been spent making contacts, finding sourcing agents, advisers, lawyers, gaining experience as a designer, and learning the business and marketing side. Below, you can see the evolution, from initial concept to polished product: