Adobe Systems Inc. today announced the winners of its eighth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards, a competition that honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists from renowned educational institutions around the globe. A record 2,700 students from 33 countries competed in this year’s event, which culminated in an awards ceremony held Thursday night at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
The winner in the Animation category is Rafael Sommerhalder of the Royal College of Art in London. Fellow finalists were Chia-Chien Mai and Tatachapon Lertwirojkul, both of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Finalists received a trip to New York City to participate in studio tours and the awards event. Category winners received a selection of Adobe products and a $3,000 cash prize. As part of the program, students also are offered internships and opportunities to showcase their work throughout the year. The winning entries can be viewed at www.adaaentry.com/adaalive.html.
Other 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Award winners:
Browser-based Design
JR Fabito of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco
Finalists: Diana Antunes of University of Coimbra in Portugal and Hyebin Park and Jhoo-Young.Cha of Seoul National University in Korea.
Designer/Developer Collaboration
Jonnie Hallman of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore
Finalists: Won Young So of Kookmin University in Korea and a team led by Catarina Pereira of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Illustration
Dongjoo Seo of Kookmin University
Finalists: Jacky Tsai of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London and Eric Collins of the School of Visual Arts
Photography
Matt Sartain of the Academy of Art University
Finalists: John Sloan of Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. and Ian Aleksander Adams of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Ga.
Installation Design
Jiyeon Song of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif.
Finalists: Freddie Yauner of the Royal College of Art and a team led by Dofl Y.H. Yun of the London College of Communication
Live Action
Mathias Kohl and Christoph Schulte of University of Applied Sciences Mainz in Germany
Mobile Design
A team led by Valentina Venza of the University IUAV of Venice in Italy
Finalists: Chia-Ying Lin of Parsons The New School for Design in New York City and Marc Osswald of University of Applied Sciences and Design in Schw’bian Gm’nd, Germany
Motion Graphics
A team of Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravalo of the Vancouver Film School in Canada
Finalists: Tal Gliks of BAU, Escola Superior de Disseny in Spain, and a team led by Cole Nielsen of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah
Non-Browser-based
Jae Chul Bae of The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston
Finalist: Leilah Rampa of the University of Illinois at Chicago
Packaging
A team led by Tseng-Chih Huang of Mingchi University of Technology in Taiwan Finalists: Eulie Lee of the Pratt Institute in New York City and Strahan McMullen of the Art Center College of Design
Print Design Multi-Page
Stefan Br’utigam of University of Applied Sciences Mainz
Finalists: Kyong Eun Kim of Kookmin University and Gretchen Nash of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Calif.
Print Design Single Page
John Passafiume of Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
Finalists: Ken Meier and David Yun of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. and Paul Grabowski of University of Applied Sciences W’rzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany
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