UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Four graphic design students in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State recently earned recognition in the AIGA Baltimore annual Flux Student Design Competition. Additionally, two of the same students’ projects have been accepted into a new AIGA Philadelphia publication.
A total of 613 entries were submitted for the AIGA Baltimore national Flux Student Design Competition with 268 projects selected by a jury of creative professionals, making the 2023 competition one of the organization’s largest and most competitive ever. The competition recognizes outstanding design work produced by students in the categories of Identity, Packaging, Poster, Publication, Social Impact Design, UX/UI and Video/Motion Graphics.
Katie Hackenburg and Katie Reynolds, both second-year graphic design students, earned recognitions in the Package Design Category with designs they created in Assistant Professor Emily Burns’ GD201: Typography I course in fall 2023: Hackenburg with her “XTC album packaging” and Reynolds with her “Overgrown album packaging,” respectively.
Third-year student graphic design student Eden Balog saw the “Sex Education Poster” she designed in GD203: Typography II in the spring of 2023 under the guidance of Burns recognized in the Poster category. Fellow third-year student Wyatt Poorman’s “Digital Dump Magazine,” which he designed in the same class with Burns in the spring, was recognized in the Publication category.
All the selected entries can be found on the Flux website.
In addition, Hackenberg’s “XTC album packaging” and Poorman’s “Digital Dump Magazine” projects were accepted into AIGA Philadelphia’s “Digitally Sourced” magazine, a new juried print and digital design publication that showcases student creative work from the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
“I love seeing the work of Penn State graphic design students represented out in the world. The effort and dedication required to create strong work is a testament in and of itself, and these students went the extra mile to further refine and document their projects to submit them to highly competitive arenas,” said Burns. “It’s rewarding to see their work recognized as examples of excellence in contemporary design. I am very proud of their achievements and excited to see what they create next!”