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Sean Addo’s "Rooted" Film Screening
Friday, January 13th, 2023, 5:30 PM, Aronoff 5401
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70th Annual DAAP Fashion Show
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DAAPworks exhibition
April 25th – 29th, 2023
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- On January 13 at 5:30 pm, there will be a film screening of DAAP alumni Sean Addo's new film “Rooted” in Aronoff, room 5401.
Sean Addo is a Ghanaian-American writer/director that tells bold and distinct genre stories about identity that draw power from African heritage. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his love for animation and storytelling led him to the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated in 2010 from the School of Design Digital Design program (now the Communication Design Program).
During his time at UC, Sean designed motion graphics for prime-time networks such as Fox, ABC, and NBC. He worked for The Procter & Gamble Company before leaving to study film at the University of Southern California. After completing his MFA at USC, Sean went on to shadow the Late John Singleton on FX Snowfall. Notable awards: The Homesick (feature screenplay) was part of 2020 Blackhouse Producers Lab, Panavision New Filmmakers 2020, Facebook SEEN Filmmakers 2021.
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- This year marks the 70th Annual DAAP Fashion Show, which will be held on the evening of Friday, April 28, 2023.
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| STUDENT & ALUMNI ACCOLADES
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- Fashion Design students won Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) Scholarships
DAAP/UC has been a member school of FSF since 2017. To date, 20 DAAP Fashion Design students have been awarded scholarships from FSF, earning a total of $127,500 in award dollars.
This year’s winners include Grace Ferrara, Chutine Wei (both second-time FSF winners and current seniors), Simon Schaffner (pre-junior), and Kai Star (sophomore, awarded the Virgil Abloh “Post Modern” Scholarship). All winners are invited to NYC to attend the FSF LIVE Gala in April. Programming surrounding the gala includes industry presentations, design studio visits, and a job fair with industry leading brands.
This year 127 scholarships were awarded from a pool of 513 applicants. Year after year FSF becomes more competitive - our students’ success is a testament to their hard work and creative promise.
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- Fashion Design senior won Woolmark Performance Challenge Award
Senior Fashion Design student Chloe Jerolaman was recently invited to Germany for the Woolmark Performance Challenge Awards Ceremony.
The Woolmark Performance Challenge is a problem-solving platform, bringing together leading performance apparel brands with a global pool of world-class talent. It is designed to facilitate innovative, environmentally-considerate product solutions for the sports and performance market, by harnessing the unique natural properties of Australian Merino wool.
The challenge also provides a unique learning experience for participants and awards the finalists and winners with opportunities for international travel, financial rewards, and potential for career development.
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- Communication Design students won GDUSA Design Awards
Second-year CODE students Varsha Vinod and JuJu Stojanovic were acknowledged as winners of the GDUSA Competition for their Typography 2 posters.
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- Industrial Design students won DMI Award
For the third year in a row, a Live Well team was recognized by the Design Management Institute (DMI) for a 3rd Place Design Value Award for its work with the Cincinnati Children’s Division of Disability Services to develop a CPR Toolkit/Game for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD).
The DAAP team consisted of faculty lead Bain Butcher, MFA, MD, and the industrial design team: Alexis Begnoche (‘21), Anabel Graciela (’22), Elaine Messerly (’22), and Nicole Sidenstick (’22). The recognition ceremony took place at the DMI Design Leadership Conference in Boston on Sept. 27th, 2022.
Cincinnati Children’s Innovation Ventures group has identified an organization that will license the CPR Kit/Game with an estimated product launch of June 2023.
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Left: Bain Butcher, Right: Anabel Graciela (ID '22)
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- Master of Design (MDes) students attended Cumulus Conference
Prof. Matt Winzinsky, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MDes Program, traveled with four first-year MDes students to Detroit in early November for the Cumulus 2022 conference “Design for Adaptation.”
Cumulus is a global association of art and design education and research with 350 member institutions across 63 countries.
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Isil Oygur
Assistant Professor, Industrial Design
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Alejandro Lozano Robledo
Annualized Adjunct Instructor, Industrial Design
Professor Robledo was invited to present at the IDSA Technique Deep Dive Event earlier this fall. On behalf of DAAP ID program, he presented some projects from his Spring'22 collaborative studio with Gravity Sketch, and talked about the development of new workflows for training the next generation of designers. Some student work examples can be found here.
He has also been invited to the Seventeenth International Design Principles and Practices Conference at the Lisbon Polytechnic in Portugal in March 2023, where he will present his ongoing research on the future of mobility and cities, and new teaching methodologies at DAAP.
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Todd Timney
Associate Professor, Communication Design
Professor Timney of DAAP/Live Well Collaborative, and John P. Perentesis, MD, FAAP of Cincinnati Children's Hospital, have been awarded a Hyundai Hope on Wheels award titled “Eliminating Disparities in Pediatric Cancer Survivorship.” This award includes funding of $100,000 over one year.
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Arti Sandhu
Associate Professor, Fashion Design
She also gave an invited talk via ZOOM on November 15th at the Poster House NYC on the topic “Saying Saree Three Ways,” on the role of the saree as a designer garment, a mantle for drag, and the glue that holds social media communities together.
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Reneé Seward
Associate Professor, Communication Design
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Matt Wizinsky
Associate Professor, Communication Design
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SoD Newsletter | Fall 2022
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