Students will travel to VTech in Hong Kong
On Friday, May 9, a group of 16 SCAD industrial design students will travel to VTech in Hong Kong. The group will present their ideas for VTech products, and one of the students will win a one-year paid internship with VTech in Hong Kong. The project led students to conduct market research and cultural awareness inquiries on specific age groups for VTech. They created design concepts in class by working with their classmates and VTech design director David Waterman.
Sketch Club to host seminar
Sketch Club will host “The Model Fiesta,” Saturday, May 10 from 1-4 p.m. at the Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. The event will provide five pairs of themed costumed models who will pose in five “scenes” that each last 20 minutes. Students may take unlimited non-flash photos for use in illustrative work. A contest will be held for work created during the event. It must be created on individual, non-sketchbook sheets of paper in order to be entered into the contest. Students from all departments are encouraged to attend.
Editors’ Day sequential art panel discussion
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s sequential art department will host a panel discussion about comics and careers in the field. Industry leaders in attendance will include: Axel Alonso, group editor for Marvel Comics; Bob Schreck, editor for DC Comics’ “Vertigo”; Chris Staros, editor-in-chief and publisher of Top Shelf Comics; Chris Warner, editor for Dark Horse Comics; Dan Vado, Slave Labor Graphics Comics; James Lucas Jones, editor-in-chief of ONI Press; Jeff Mason, editor and publisher of Alternative Comics; Mike O’Sullivan (M.F.A., sequential art, 2004), editor of Devil’s Due Publishing Company; and Tricia Narwani, Random House manga editor. The event will be held Thursday, May 16 from 6 -7:15 p.m. at the Student Center, 120 Montgomery St.