Congratulations to Ali Dick for winning a prestigious Platinum Award for her chair design (pictured below)—and to the following TEN students who brought home the Gold.

Design: Isabel Babcock, Equipoise Mondernist Chair Design; Hiren Dedhia, The Earthsea trilogy; Chris Thompson, God is good, gay is good

Advertising Arts: Adam Hook, Long’s Horseradish, Duncan Fun for one; Travis Robertson, Long’s Horseradish; Jonathan Smith, Duncan Fun for one; David Taylor, Long’s Horseradish, Duncan Fun for one

Photography: Justin Keoninh, Duncan Fun for one; Artem Nazarov, Convict; Leigh Anna Thompson, God is good, gay is good

From the Graphis website: Graphis New Talent Annual …more

Tuesday, Oct 27th, at 6:30pm, is the Patron Opening for the Marcel Breuer Exhibit at the Museum of Design Atlanta. The exhibit will run through January, 2010. Marcel Breuer was one of the most influential Modernist designers of the 20th century! If you are even the slightest fan of Bauhaus art, design, and architecture, then you are a fan of Breuer.

Besides his architectural masterpieces, such as the Atlanta Fulton County Public Libary, downtown, Breuer was well known for his pioneering furniture designs, particularly the Bauhaus tubular metal chair known as model no. B3, as well as the now famous …more

Last night, Mimi Tin celebrated the launch of SushiStyle with an opening reception at King Plow Art Center. The place was packed with happy creatives, many of whom were Portfolio Center students, alumni, and faculty. Guests were escorted down the red carpet into the candlelit room filled with music. It was a memorable, evening, and we are so proud of Mimi.

Pictured from L to R: Top: Mimi, general crowd. Bottom: Rob Lau, Jessica Gavit, John Hartwell; Jen Fenrich, Preeti Ayyangar

Congrats to Portfolio Center’s very own Zach Wolfe for shooting his first Time Magazine Cover! This is a pretty exclusive club and when you study at PC, you can get a piece of that action! Way to go, Zach!

Epidemik Coalition’s Larry Luk and Georgios Saliaris, both PC grads, featured on the Studio Spotlight in The Dieline.

Our own Rachel Anscher and Joli Glantz (both ‘brand new’ Portfolio Center graduates) have just had their work published in the Student Spotlight on The Dieline.

The Dieline is the most visited website on package design in the world and has become the voice of the industry.

Not many people realize this, but packaging is the world’s third largest industry—only Food and Energy/Petrochemicals are larger.

The packaging industry will spend somewhere around $630 billion this coming year (to put it in perspective, this is 30 percent more than the entire global pharmaceutical industry). It is the most important means …more