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Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 02:40pm
Thirteen students from the Kent State School of Visual Communication Design (VCD) were honored Friday, April 14, 2023 with design scholarships. Held in conjunciton with the first Senior Show of Spring semester, the scholarship ceremony brought out quite a crowd of students and…
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Friday, March 3, 2023 - 02:40pm
Visual Communication Design senior Julia Gray (Spring ’23) has been interested in design before she even knew what it was. “My family had an ongoing joke throughout my childhood that I ‘was born with paper in one hand and a pencil in the other,’” she says.
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Monday, February 6, 2023 - 12:51pm
When senior visual communication design major Jordan Edgar, '23, was asked to design the logo for Homeslice Pizzeria, Kent State’s newest dining location, she wanted to create a logo that would match the environment of the Kent Student Center and incorporate elements of a pizza…
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Monday, December 12, 2022 - 06:08pm
Misinformation has permeated conversations across all walks of life. And in the Taylor Hall Gallery at Kent State University this winter, visitors can see misinformation exposed in a new, visually interesting way, thanks to a collaboration between Associate Professors Sanda…
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Monday, December 12, 2022 - 05:10pm
Two Kent State University graduates, David Wilson '09, adjunct professor of Illustration, Design and Graphic Narrative, and Misty Wilson '15, a graduate of the Masters of Arts Teaching program, are making strides to eliminate gender roles and stereotypes with their graphic novel…
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Friday, August 26, 2022 - 10:39am
Aimee Crane (Visual Communication Design - BFA ’09, MFA ’12) has the distinction of being the Kent State graduate whose work might just go the farthest. The farthest away from the Earth, that is. Currently the Artemis Brand Manager for NASA, Crane designed the mission patch for…
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 04:49pm
During the Spring 2022 semester, Visual Communication Design students in the Glyphix Design Research Lab have been working on an intergenerational research project combining storytelling and design.
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 10:51am
Associate Professor Jaime Kennedy's challenging, complex piece blends 3D printing, audio, painting and photography with a dash of randomness and now hangs in the Mahoning Valley Innovation and Commercialization Center in Youngstown, Ohio.


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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 05:51pm
The School of Visual Communication Design is pleased to announce the winners of our scholarships for the next academic year. We are incredibly proud of these students' hard work and dedication to their craft.