Des Moines Sun

Des Moines Area Community College issued the following announcement on Sept. 10.

DMACC students capture 14 awards at Annual Award Exhibition

DMACC students win awards against college students from two- and four-year colleges at ADAI event.

Graphic Design Student Hailey O'Connor Morelock receives Best of Show and Judge's Choice Awards while fellow Graphic Design student Kristine Do receives a Judge's Choice/Best of Category award.

DMACC Graphic Design and Animation students received 14 awards at the annual Art Directors Association of Iowa (ADAI) Design Exhibition.  Since 1958, ADAI has hosted an annual award exhibition celebrating designers across Iowa and bringing advertising professionals and students together to showcase and recognize their work.

Awards were given to students from two-year colleges and four-year universities in such categories as book design, editorial design, illustration, photography, poster design, digital campaign, animation and more.   

"As the new Program Chair of Graphic Design at DMACC, I am elated to see recognition and the awards our students received at the Art Directors of Iowa 62nd Annual ADAI Design Exhibition," Graphic Design Program Chair Heather Purdy said. “It is a tremendous honor and shows the hard work and dedication of students and their instructors."

This also marks the 50th anniversary of the DMACC Graphic Design program, which was called Commercial and Advertising Art when the program was established in the fall of 1970.  A total of 17 students were enrolled in that initial class.

The recognized DMACC students from the Graphic Design and Animation

programs are listed below: 

Graphic Design Program 

Hailey O'Connor-Morelock of Des Moines

Court Avenue Brew Label Design

Best of Show/ Judge's Choice

Lupe Gamboa of Grimes

Book Design 

Susan Langman of Waukee

Animal Farm Book Design

Kathryn Neese of West Des Moines

Lord of the Flies Book Design

Andrea Walker of Des Moines

Splash Identity System 

Kristine Do of Des Moines

My Little Family Illustration

Judge's Choice / Best of Category 

Andrew Paulson of Ankeny

Jordan Creek Mall Illustration 

Lal Hlua of Des Moines

Postmodern Posters 

Kristine Do of Des Moines

Trostel's Greenbriar Branding/Packaging 

Stephanie Joy of Jefferson

Nite Hawk Bar and Grill Branding 

Animation Program 

Purmon Greene of Ankeny

Cup Take Animation 

Jayden Casey of Ankeny

Gumball Machine Animation 

Bauston Van Sickle of Newton

Personification Animation

The 2020 Exhibition program can be found here.

For more information, contact Heather Purdy hvpurdy@dmacc.edu

Original source: https://www.dmacc.edu/news/Pages/20200910.aspx