Portfolio Center art direction student Jonathan Smith’s portfolio is featured on the Young Guns Award website, an enormous honor. Way to go, Jonathan!

Don’t miss Atlanta writer Matt Porter’s feature about the PC photography students’ Gold Exhibit on the Neenah Paper blog.

Portfolio Center photographers Andrea Dorsey, Amelia Alpaugh, and Artem Navarov recently completed work for MODA’s Beyond Bricks and Sticks exhibit, which opened at The World of Coke and is currently on display at the CNN Center. The traveling exhibition highlights the ways green design is changing the spaces in which we live, work, and play. The three students were asked to shoot at Serenbe, Greenco, and Phillips arena in order to cover a composting story for the show’s Nourish cube. Yet another example of Portfolio Center students making real contributions.

More great news that’s not surprising: PC designer extraordinaire Annabel Mangold is featured in Graphic Design USA’s first ‘Students to Watch’ issue, profiling superlative students from the top design schools in the country. Check out the piece here.

Brad Copeland, president and founder of Iconologic in Atlanta, is one of the leading designers in our community and has been an advisor to the Olympics on the Look of the Games for 22 years. He has contributed to the look of 11 Olympic Games, including this winter’s in Vancouver.

Several Portfolio Center graduates and instructors work at Iconologic, doing everything from branding and graphic design to writing, environmental design, and screen based media.

Brad is keeping a blog about the Olympics’ behind-the-scenes right now, and we thought you might be interested in taking a look.

Recent design grad Joel Richardson’s Seasonal Food Calendar is featured on the Typography Served website, which showcases the best work that promotes new thinking in the industry. Click here to see.

Don’t miss the awesome review of PC alum Mimi Tin’s new toy line in parenting expert Stephanie Oppenheim’s blog. Oppenheim, who has appeared on such programs as Oprah, CNN, and the Today Show, reviews children’s media based on quality, age-appropriateness, and value. She is a tough critic and gave Mimi a glowing report, calling the collection “witty” and “fun.” Read it here.

PC alum and unpeggable creative Alissa Walker has posted the inspiring and informative talk she gave at the Sarasota Design Summit, a presentation called Designers as Storytellers: How to Create Awesome Design Content. Click here to be transported to Gelatobaby.

Congratulations to Portfolio Center students for snagging 35 Addy’s for the PC trophy case. To read about this year’s competition, the professional winners, and the judges, check out the Atlanta Addys website. Our own Best of Show and Gold-winning projects are pictured below, followed by the names of our silver and bronze holders. We are so proud of you all.

Best of Show: photographer Leigh Anna Thompson, for her Gold Miners Series.

Gold: Illustrator Katherine Thames, for her Blue Jellyfish.

Gold: Illustrator Deb Davis, for New York Birds.

Gold: Designer Jesse Lutz, for MOMA interactive.

Gold: Designer Rachel Anscher, for Olde English Malt …more

Portfolio Center students brought home 35 Addy Awards, including the overall Best of Show for photographer Leigh Anna Thompson’s Gold Miners series. To see the slide show of the ceremony, click here. And stay tuned for a more detailed post listing the students who won awards and pictures of some of the work.