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Heather Snyder Quinn VCFA STA 100 winner

VCFA’s Heather Snyder Quinn wins STA 100!

November 3, 2019

We are very excited to announce that VCFA alumna Heather Snyder Quinn has won an STA 100 Award for her thesis project “Transparency: Past/Present/Future”!

Read all about Heather’s award-winning project here: https://100.sta-chicago.org/winners/2019/transparency-past-present-future

The Society of Typographic Arts’s (STA) 100 competition is 40 years old. The STA brings the design community together by inviting and encouraging all creative professionals to help build a community with social, educational, and networking opportunities. Through events, activities, conferences, and publications, as well as the STA 100 competition, the STA affirms its dedication to pursuing excellence in all forms of communication.

The STA seeks to identify and honor the 100 best examples of typographic excellence produced each year. Read all about it here: https://100.sta-chicago.org/aboutAsics footwear | Womens Shoes Footwear & Shoes Online

The Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design is one of the nation’s first low-residency programs in graphic design that is built around a student’s individual interests and goals.

The MFA in Graphic Design is an immersive two-year graduate program that synthesizes five intense, one-week residencies with four six-month semesters of independent study with a range of faculty mentors. We educate students towards the broader context of design in order to investigate and reveal relationships. We see Graphic Design as a social tool and design education as a process of social transformation.

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Our innovative, highly effective pedagogical model has its roots in the progressive educational philosophies of John Dewey. Our student-centered approach allows students to develop individualized study plans, addressing design issues that support their particular interests, values, and goals.

MFA students in our Graphic Design program will develop skills in form, content and craft, deepen and expand critical ability, build fluency in contemporary design discourse, and expand their ability to drive content with their work.

Graduates emerge with new research methods, critical acumen, and a body of design work that is personal and relevant; one which enhances their professional and academic path. They will have learned to continuously rethink design by considering cultural context, relationships between designers and their work, and the nature of education within design.

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