Awards

SPRING 2002

Reconsider 9/11

• Exhibit in the Rosenberg Library commemorating 9/11 entitled "Reconsider 9/11: Students' Visual Responses to 9/11." Students designed and printed 11x17 inch, color posters, which were included in the main exhibit along with official 9/11 posters created by artists in NYC. Our graphic design students designed and installed the exhibit, as well as designing its promotional materials.
• "Reconsider 9/11" traveled to other CCSF campuses.
• "Reconsider 9/11" was exhibited in Sacramento.
• "Reconsider 9/11" was taken to Afghanistan and presented to the National Gallery of Art.
• Competition: Three students' posters were chosen to be published in the Spring 2003 edition of Chiaroscuro, a bi-annual publication of American University in Washington DC which is distributed to international peace and conflict resolution programs.

SPRING 2002

Women of Extraordinary Achievement
Rosenberg Library exhibit and competition. Our graphic design students participated and several card designs were chosen for the exhibit. Student Civiane Chung won the competition and was honored with an award.

FALL 2002

In Defense of Animals Billboard Design Competition
Our graphic design students participated in this international competition for IDA (In Defense of Animals) Billboard Design. Student Sharon Kerr's design won and was displayed on billboards all over Washington, DC.

FALL 2002

ADPSA Competition
Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility
The work of three of our graphic design students was chosen to be exhibited in NYC with socially critical work, and was also printed as promotional postcards and distributed nationally by ADPSA.

FALL 2002

CCSF Student Health Services' Antismoking Poster Competition
Our graphic design students participated in this competition, and won three out of four awards given. The posters are now being distributed in other educational institutions.

SPRING 2003

Expose, Exchange, Express
Students designed and installed this exhibit on Library Services at the Rosenberg Library, and created its posters. In conjunction with the show, an installation and performance entitled "CJ8" was produced by our most advanced graphic design class in collaboration with the CCSF Department of Transitional Studies and female inmates in SF County Jail. A video documentary about this project has been produced and aired in various correctional facilities and at Waldenhaus, where it continues to inspire the community.

SPRING 2003

Ricky Dicky Dinky Book Design Competition
Three students won this competition to design a children's book for a prominent LA writer.

FALL 2003

Students Look at Labor
After students developed promotional materials for an exhibit entitled "Who Does the Work?" their client was so impressed that she organized this special "Students Look at Labor" exhibit at the Rosenberg Library, which displayed posters created by GRPH 68 students expressing their views on labor.

FALL 2003

Bookpool Bookmark Competition
Two of our students were among 86 Top Contenders out of 1436 entries in this national competition to design promotional bookmarks for bookpool.com.

SPRING 2004

Transgender Voices Transgender Rights
and Inside Out (book publication)*
In a major collaboration with the Bay Area transgendered community, students and faculty of the Health Science Department, and the CCSF Office of Mentoring and Service Learning, our graphic design students and faculty produced "Inside Out." This book of personal stories was created to educate its readers about transgendered people, and evoke empathy for their plight. CCSF students and faculty performed not only the design and production of an identity system, logo, and collateral together with the book, but also produced an entire public event/performance for the debut of Inside Out to advocate for the transgendered community. The book is in its third round of printing, bringing the number of distributed copies to 450. A documentary video on the project was recently aired on public television.

FALL 2004

HIV Prevention Campaign & Environmental Installation*
Graphic design students and faculty collaborated with faculty and students from the Health Science Department & HIV/STI Education Office to design, produce, and build a campus-wide environmental installation on HIV prevention issues. This project was chosen for presentation to the CCSF Board as an exemplary cross-disciplinary project.

SPRING 2005

Black is Beautiful Campaign*
A series of posters designed and produced by graphic design and health science students in support of the African American community are currently being considered for grand-scale publication in Muni stations.

FALL 2005

Chancellor's Holiday Card Competition
Our students are regularly among the three finalists, and frequently are awarded prizes. Most recently, three of our graphic design students were awarded first, second, and third place. One entry was printed as CCSF's official holiday card sent to the San Francisco community.

*Partially sponsored by grants from the CCSF Mentoring and Service Learning Office.