SASD Awards and Honors

Design Alumni Return to SASD

Sat 28 Apr 2018 — Dozens of UB's design alumni returned to campus for an afternoon of talk, catching up, hors d'oeuvres, and beverages. The afternoon began with a viewing of the 2018 senior design exhibition, Hello World, in the Schelfhaudt Gallery, 123 ABC. Older alumni met the newer as graduating seniors were near their thesis displays, ready to expand…
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Design students’ safety inventions win big at NY International Auto Show

  • April 15, 2018
Fri 6 April 2018 — Three University of Bridgeport (UB) students have won awards, including Grand Prize, at the New York International Auto Show for devices they invented to keep drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe from vehicle mishaps. The students, all of whom are majoring in industrial design at UB’s Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, were awarded a total of…
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GD Senior Leachman finals in Photo Contest

  • April 15, 2018
Thu 12 Apr 2018 — Graphic Design senior Craig Leachman has placed in the finals of the Photographer's Forum 38th Annual College & High School Photography Contest. His color photograph, ABC Man, is in the finalist group. Over 12,000 photographs were entered by student photographers in the U.S and Canada, and around the world. His artwork will be published in…
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CADC honors 2017 SASD grad Rose DeLeon

  • July 13, 2017
Thu 29 Jun 2017 — Breaking news from the Connecticut Art Directors Club annual awards show held this past Thursday in Hartford: our 2017 SASD Graphic Design graduate Rose DeLeon won a Gold Award and a Judge's Award for her senior theis Hablando Español: Modismos, and she won a Silver Award for "I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me..." the…
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2017 IDSA Award goes to… Areum Song!

  • March 25, 2017
Tue 21 Mar 2017 — Areum Song is SASD's IDSA award winner for 2017! Presentations and judging were held in ABC (Arnold Bernhard Center) with an audience of over 50 students, faculty, and professional industrial designers. From a field of talented senior designers, Areum Song was selected to represent SASD in the annual regional competition, held this year Fri–Sat 31…
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Envision Kindness Contest — SASD Takes Two

  • March 25, 2017
Fri 10 Feb 2017 — Two groups of SASD graphic design students together took two awards in the 2016 Envision Kindness Student Film Contest. Led by instructor Lani Asuncion, both groups garnered votes and likes to take Second ($250 / $100) and Third ($125 / $100). Message of Kindness, created by Woojoo Shin and Taiwan Kim, won Second place and…
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2017 Annual IDSA Merit Awards

  • March 18, 2017
6:00pm Tue 21 Mar 2017 — IDSA Merit Awards presentations will be held for senior industrial design students in 708 ABC. Presentations of student work will be made to a jury of New York and Connecticut industrial designers, followed by discussions by the jury to award the best work. Awardees will represent the University of Bridgeport at the IDSA North…
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UB Student Platform Certified To Fly High

  • August 9, 2016
Mon 29 Aug 2016 — The Space Monkey designed by SASD industrial design students and UB engineering students is set to soar at the end of August 2016. Two SASD industrial design students got scholarships to further develop their design for a remote robotic sensor set that will let young Earth-bound students engage with it from the edge of space.…
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Connecticut Art Directors Club Awards SASD Seniors; Griffith Wins Five

  • June 29, 2016
Thu 23 Jun 2016 — The 41st CADC Annual Awards Show brought together work by graphic designers from all over Connecticut to compete for awards from the Connecticut Art Directors Club. One of those designers was SASD’s own Terrell Griffith, graduating senior in graphic design. Terrell swept the categories with his senior thesis work, “Practice Makes Better” book and website,…
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SASD Students Finalists in Annual 48 Hour RePack Competition

  • April 23, 2016
2016 — Two teams of industrial and graphic design students were among ten finalist teams in the annual 48 hour Re-Pack competition for 2016. Re-Pack challenges students to reformulate packaging to better serve the product and to increase recycling and reduce waste in packages. In January 2016, two SASD at UB teams submitted solutions to packaging problems and each judged…
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