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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Interior Design Student Entries Win at Visitability Home Design

5 Jun 2017 — The first place winning team in the annual Visitability Home Design Contest, The Millennials, made up of Isabella Theberge, Nikita Bontra, Moataz Alhawidni and Mona Albalawi also hailed from the Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD) at the University of Bridgeport. Third place went to Alanis Vega-Cruz and Meghan Kennedy, Team Megnis, of SASD, and fourth…
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ID Students Win Again at NY International Auto Show Safety Competition

  • April 18, 2017
Sat 13 Apr 2017 — SASD Junior Industrial Design Students win three out five prizes at NY International Auto Show on April 13, 2017 World Traffic Safety Symposium Designs for Safety Competition. Prizes went to Kristopher Fujii $2500 2nd Place, Dina Inga $1250 3rd Place, and David Jurado $1250 4th Place. The three winning designs are as follows: Kristopher Fujii…
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Leaving Our Mark – 2017 Senior and Graduate Show

  • April 12, 2017
4:00–7:00 Thu 20 Apr – Summer 2017 — Senior design and graduate program students invite the public and their fellow SASD students and the faculty to their graduating exhibition in the Schelfhaudt Gallery, 123 ABC, Arnold Bernhard Center on the University of Bridgeport Campus. Graphic, Industrial, and Interior Design students will display the very best of their design work as…
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Kazuji Akatsu Day in Bridgeport and at UB

  • April 11, 2017
Tue 11 Apr 2017 — Bridgeport, SASD, and UB welcomed our benefactor and trustee, Shintaro Akatsu, and his father, Kazuji Akatsu, to the Arnold Bernhard Center on the UB campus for a pleasant day of presentations and tours. In the Schelfhaudt Gallery Stephen Healey, UB Provost, opened a session of presentations with opening remarks, and introduced Neil Salonen, UB President,…
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Eleventh Annual SASD Design Alumni Event

  • April 7, 2017
3:00/4:00–6:00 Sat 29 Apr 2017 — SASD, with Art Landi ID '74, is hosting the eleventh annual Design Alumni event. Please join us for an afternoon celebrating the accomplishments of design alumnus Gary van Deursen Come for great presentations by the Design Management graduate program class of 2017 at 3:00, alumni reception at 4:00. The reception will also include a…
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­­Kazuji Akatsu and Shintaro Akatsu Visit SASD

  • April 3, 2017
Tue 11 Apr 2017 — SASD, the students, and faculty all welcome the Akatsu family on their return visit to the Shintaro Akatsu School of Design at the University of Bridgeport. The occasion is for the University of Bridgeport’s Honorary Degree Ceremony for Mr. ­­­­­­­­­Kazuji Akatsu, father of Trustee Shintaro Akatsu, that will be held on Tuesday, April 11 beginning…
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2017 UB Alumni Art Show

  • April 3, 2017
5:30 –7:30 Thu 6 Apr 2017 — The University of Bridgeport presents its sixth annual “Alumni Art Show,” on view from April 6 to April 16 at the Shelfhaudt Gallery in the Arnold Bernhard Center, 84 Iranistan Avenue, Bridgeport. Members of the community are warmly invited to a free opening reception on Thursday, April 6, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30…
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2017 Annual CADC Graphic Design Conference Announced

  • March 25, 2017
9:30–3:00 Sat 8 Apr 2017 — The Connecticut Directors Art Club (CADC) is proud to present the 2017 Connecticut Art Director's Club Student Conference and Monica Wolff & Randall Smith Scholarship Competition for students in visual communications, graphic design, new media, illustration and photography programs. It is a fantastic opportunity to hear first hand the real-life perspectives on creative careers…
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PR&Ad GD & MCom Stus Present to BRBC

  • March 25, 2017
Tue 25 Apr 2017 — Professor Susan Katz's PR & Advertising class will present their campaign for the Bridgeport Regional Business Council to the BRBC Tuesday 25 April 2017 in the Arnold Bernhard Center's DuPont Tower Room. The course joins SASD Graphic Design students with Mass Communications students to produce a yearly campaign for real-world clients. Prof Katz writes: Please…
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