Once again, PRP students have created shoe designs for the 2015 Vans Custom Culture competition. Students in all Ms. Webb’s design classes participate in this annual contest, where they brainstorm and research for ideas, create concepts using Adobe Creative Suite on the computer, vote on winning designs, and collaborate in teams to paint prototypes of designs in four categories: Art, Music, Action Sports and Local Flavor. The top fifty schools in the country will be announced on Friday, April 24. Fingers crossed!

[Left to Right] Kara Barnett, Taylor Gray, Malik Alleyne-Jones, Kelaiah Clark and Morgan Tilton presented “Failure: a Chance to Start Again” at the 2015 JCPS IdeaFestival, held at Durrett Auditorium on March 13. The program for this year’s IdeaFest was also designed by PRP Creative team member Malik Alleyne-Jones.

Over 40 PRP students attended the day-long event, including members of National Art Honor Society and graphic design and photography students.

PRP Creative members Taylor Gray, Nick Bolton and Joseph Morrison collaborated to produce the first ever issue of the RBA Newsletter. Students began working with the River City Business Association in the fall and met with the organization during one of their monthly luncheons to discuss plans for design. RBA member company Café Press donated the printing, and RBA President, Jenny Fox, worked with students to provide content. RBA consists of businesses along the Dixie Highway corridor and the Greenbelt area surrounding our school. Special thanks to RBA for partnering with our class on this student-led project!RBA_News_Issue1

PRP students swept this year’s Advertising Design Category at SkillsUSA Regionals, held in February at Sullivan College of Technology and Design! Congrats to the following students, who will now compete at SkillsUSA State:

Malik Alleyne-Jones 1st Place
Taylor Gray 2nd Place
Kara Barnett 3rd Place

Brandon LaDuke also placed first in Web Design. Way to go Panthers!

Congratulations go out to the following Graphic and Visual Art students for their winning entries in the 2015 Scholastics Art Competition:

Taylor Gray – Gold Key in Design, Silver Key in Design
Erin Greenwood – Gold Key and Honorable Mention in Design
Emily Krieger – Gold Key in Design
Malik Alleyn-Jones – 3 Silver Keys in Design, Honorable Mentions in Art Portfolio and Design
Jalen Spreitler – Silver Key and Honorable Mention in Design and Honorable Mention in Digital Art
Kaylynn Wade – Honorable Mention in Digital Art
Jackson McNear – Gold Key in Ceramics
Isabella Ray – Gold Key in Ceramics
Carson Stanton – Gold Key in Ceramics
Angela Lee – Honorable Mention in Ceramics
Alazae Thompson – Honorable Mention in Sculpture
Darius Henderson – Gold Key in Drawing
Elijah Goesmann – Silver Key in Sculpture
Peyton Hawks – Honorable Mention in Mixed Media
Melanie Kaelin – Honorable Mentions in Painting and Drawing
Emily Krieger – Honorable Mention in Drawing
Amber Levay – Honorable Mentions in Printmaking and Drawing

This year, Pleasure Ridge Park Graphic Design students have teamed up with JCPS Nutrition Services to create the 2014-15 Fruit & Veggie of the Month Posters. Part of a yearlong project, the posters were designed to promote nutritional facts and are targeted towards a student audience. Andrea Wright of JCPS Nutrition Services collaborated with students on the project, and was invited to come into the class and introduce the project in the form of a design brief during a weekly production meeting. Ms. Wright brought in samples of past posters, discussed project parameters, and identified the challenges of promoting healthy nutrition to young people.

Students worked together to identify their audience, research nutritional facts for each month’s featured item, to rank their ideas, collaborate to find the best solutions, and present their final designs to receive feedback/refine their project. Students decided to use a unified design approach for the Fruit and Veggie of the Month campaign, allowing students to take turns designing the posters without compromising the brand identity. This project helped students express ideas, collaborate with clients and peers, learn digital media they can use long after graduation, and to think outside the box. The posters will be displayed to all JCPS elementary, middle and high school cafeterias throughout the 2014-15 school year.

Congrats to Graphic Design and Visual Art students who were finalists in the 2014 Annual Ky Youth Film Festival, held at the Louisville Slugger Museum. In all, 5 PRP students received awards. Shown above are Jada Bruce [3rd Place Graphic Design Poster] and Baylee Peck [Public Choice Award Overall]. Not shown are Andrea Compton [1st Place Visual Art Poster]; Shelby Fultz [2nd Place Visual Art Poster]; and Amber LaVay [3rd Place Visual Art Poster]. The event was a part of the Louisville International Film Festival, and was sponsored by Hollywood actor and Louisville native Conrad Bachman and Matt Berman.

A group of students from PRP Creative took an afternoon before the start of Fall break to sit in on a Graphic Design class at UofL. Students listened as university students presented a project from their Design for Public Issues class. Afterwards, students enjoyed listening to an in-class critique in the Design for Social Media class. Thanks to Leslie Friesen and UofL for hosting our visit!