National Student Show & Conference Creativity Can Come from Anywhere. Apr. 15-17 2010

Meet Judge – Jeff Barfoot

By Christina | April 22nd, 2010

Jeff holds degrees in graphic design, illustration, and marine biology from the University of Arizona. His design and illustration work has been recognized by most major design competitions and publications, including Communication Arts, the Art Directors Club of New York, Graphis, Print magazine, the AR100 (for annual report design), the Dallas Society of Visual Communications (DSVC), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the One Show, and the American Advertising Federation.

Jeff is a past president of the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, and served on its board of directors for eight years. He is past editor-in-chief of Rough magazine, the monthly publication of the DSVC. Jeff has also served on the board of directors of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the AIGA. He has been asked to show his work and address several professional groups and university programs, and is honored to have judged several design competitions.

He is extremely proud to be the cofounder of the National Student Show & Conference, hosted by the DSVC. Each year, the nation’s largest creative competition and conference attracts over 700 students and educators from across the United States and doles out over $20,000 in scholarships and show prizes.

Over the course of his career, he has done identity, retail branding, and investor communications projects for 7-Eleven, the American Heart Association, Blockbuster, the Dallas Museum of Art, Fossil, Hallmark, Hasbro, IBM, KEXP Seattle, Neenah Paper, Neiman Marcus, Nickelodeon, Pepsi, Sappi Fine Paper, Sony, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, and Yum! Brands.

In the evening, Jeff heads out to his backyard studio where he and his wife, Shay, run Bee Things, designing and screen-printing limited-edition art prints, apparel, and paper products for the home. Jeff has two moppy-haired sons and two miniature wiener dogs, all four of which eat his food.

And if you haven’t guessed by now, his marine biology degree is not very useful to him at this time.

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Meet Judge- Jessica Hische

By Angela | March 24th, 2010

We are excited to announce that Jessica Hische will be participating as a judge in this years National student show.

Jessica Hische is a typographer and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Tyler School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design, she worked for Headcase Design in Philadelphia before taking a position as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. While working for Louise, she continued developing her freelance career, working for clients such as Tiffany & Co., Chronicle Books, and The New York Times. In September of 2009, after two and a half years of little sleep and a lot of hand-lettering, she left Louise Fili to pursue her freelance career further. Jessica has been featured in most major design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine, How Magazine, The Graphis Design Annual, American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators. She was featured as one of Step Magazine’s 25 Emerging Artists, Communication Arts “Fresh”, Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 2009 (commonly referred to as Print’s 20 under 30), and The Art Directors Club Young Guns.

Here are just a few samples of her lovely work.

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