Three Mohawk students win gold at North American design competition
BRANTFORD – A trio of second-year students from Mohawk’s Graphic Design Production program have won gold at a North American design competition.
Carolyn Hunter, Amy Rohr and Visan Chao earned first place in the North American Packaging Association’s 2007 Student Design Case Study and Competition. The competition involved designing a take-home unisex spa products promotion package.
Submissions were judged on criteria that included innovation, concept, structural and graphic development, construction and craftsmanship. The Mohawk students edged out silver and bronze medal teams from the University of Akron and the Pratt Institute in New York City. The Mohawk students worked on the project over the course of a semester and on their own time.
Students from Mohawk’s two-year Graphic Design Production - Packaging cooperative education program and two-year Graphic Design Production - Creative program at the Elgin Street Campus in Brantford learn the design, manufacture and use of packaging and graduate into successful careers as package developers and designers and production coordinators. Two of the award-winning students are currently on paid work terms in Toronto, with Carolyn Hunter working at Molson and Amy Rohr gaining real-world experience at Unilever.
More information on the NAPA 2007 Student Design Case Study and Competition
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