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Students, Don't Forget: Show and Tell Entries Due Tomorrow

Even if you're just finding out about our Show and Tell Online Student Design Show, it's not too late to enter. All you gotta do is send us your best work by 5pm June 1. How easy is that? Find all the details here on our Student Blog.

Online Student Design Show:

Entries Due June 1

Forget rules, forget themes and categories, forget formulas and all that normal competition jazz ... for our new Show and Tell 2011 Online Student Editorial Design Show, all you gotta do is show us the best stuff you have going.

If you're a student or spring 2011 graduate, we want to see the awesome editorial design you've been working on. Whether it's from your class assignments, from your school publication, or just personal projects, it's all good. And if enough of our jury of pros likes it, we'll showcase your work in an exclusive online gallery on this here SPD website. It's a great way to get your work in front of loads of magazine art directors with the power to hire fresh, young talent like yourself. Find all the details and a downloadable PDF here. And hurry, the deadline is Wednesday, June 1!

Ron Gabriel: The (almost) Graduate

Ron worked as a magazine art director until August 2009, when he left Hearst Magazines to pursue a MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts. He worked for titles including Seventeen, New Woman, The New York Times Upfront, and CosmoGirl, as well as the international editions of Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Esquire. We first hooked up with Ron when he was just beginning his two-year stint as a graduate student in SVA's Designer as Author program, so we wanted to check in again as he prepares to graduate.
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The SVA 2010 Yearbook

SPD Grids just got its hands on a hot-off-the-presses copy of the 2010 SVA student yearbook. Compiled and designed by faculty advisor/instructor/creative director Genevieve Williams and a top team of seniors, the book is packed with brilliant design and imagery. The yearbook comes in a white box with five books and a DVD inside, all wrapped in a colorful belly band. 
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Calling All Students

In case you haven't noticed over on our Student Blog, our student programming is in a frenzy of activity these next few weeks: our annual Student Design Competition deadline is this Monday, March 8 (see past winners in the link above); a week later, March (Design) Madness begins with our SPD-U event on March 15; on Wednesday, March 24, the madness continues with Portfolio Reviews (details to be announced soon); entries in our Student Photography Competition are due March 29; and we close out the craziness with our Spring Pub(lications) Crawl on Friday, April 9 (more details to come). If you're a student, we want to see you entering and attending all of these events! And if you're a teacher, please pass the word along to your students: there are great opportunities (cash prizes, software, internships & workshops and networking & great advice) for the taking.

Student Photo Competition Winners Announced

The Society is pleased to announce the winners of our first-ever student photo competition. We were thrilled to receive over 250 entries from schools across the country to our Land/Sea/Air contest, and while it took us awhile to get our act together to post the victors (okay, my act), it doesn't take away from just how darn proud we are of our kids.
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Student Photo Competition Judges Talk

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The Kids Today...

... are gonna be alright. And you know why? Because they've got fantastic teachers giving world-class advice, some of the best in the business opening their offices and telling it like it is about the way the work gets done, and now, just in time for the mad rush to spring portfolio reviews, an event JUST for students, and JUST to work on putting together the portfolio to land that dream internship (or, gasp, a job!).

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 2nd, 6:00PM.
FREE for all SPD Student Members!! (& if you're student, but not a member yet, sign-up there!)

Details & info here; you MUST RSVP to attend, but there's still time to do it!

The Rules

So, you just got your first internship at that great magazine or design studio. Well done! We know you're juggling school and work, and that school comes first. We're all about making sure you learn as much as possible and that your talents are being properly nurtured. That said, we also have a few things we expect from you in return. And so, we want to share some tips to help make your internship good for all of us.… MORE

Back to School

I've been teaching at SVA for a really long time. I actually can't even remember how long, but it's got to be at least 16 or 50 years now. Sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's inconvenient. Occasionally, it's incredibly frustrating. But that said, I wouldn't take back the many hours I've invested in the classroom and only wish more designers taught, too. Here's why:… MORE