Xinh Beardmore receives Academic Excellence Award for School of Design After establishing a successful career in financial services, culminating as Associate Director of Finance in a large healthcare organization, Xinh Beardmore wasn’t satisfied. It was important work, but to her, balance sheets and fiscal projections didn’t feel like a tangible outcome. She had a growing […]
Graphic Design & Production Yengkong Thao’s interest in graphic design was sparked by chance. After a meeting with his guidance counselor at Wausau East High School in Wisconsin, Thao found out he had a gap in his class schedule that needed to be filled. An artist at heart, Thao’s counselor encouraged him to consider taking […]
Dunwoody College’s two-year graphic design degree program has changed its name to Graphic Design & Production to better reflect the experience it provides to students. Adding the term “production” to the name reinforces that Dunwoody’s program graduates designers who have hands-on experience with producing their designs and are capable of designing across a spectrum of […]
For the second consecutive year, Dunwoody College of Technology students have collaborated with the Minnesota Department of Health to create a display educating fairgoers about water consumption. The project will be on display at this year’s Minnesota State Fair, Aug. 22-Sept. 2. Throughout the summer, the sound of wood cut by Computer Numerical Control (CNC) […]
Dunwoody’s Design & Graphics Technology department takes pride in graduating designers who have a holistic understanding of the design process — from working with and establishing rapport with clients through the final production. A key way design students learn this process is through the second-semester Packaging Design course, which takes students through the entire process […]
When Katie Holmquist decided to change careers, she found a home within Dunwoody’s Graphic Design department. Growing up, Holmquist always had a creative side. While pursuing a degree in child psychology prior to attending Dunwoody, she ran an Etsy shop selling her artwork. “I used to do all the community art classes and would build […]
Graduating from Dunwoody in 2015 with an Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design, alumni Matthew Sullivan has been driven to accomplish his goals in the field of graphic design. Recently, Sullivan accepted a full-time designer position at the nationally renowned firm Duffy Design. As a part of the Duffy family, Sullivan works hard at […]
Student Ashley LeMay designed and produced 25 point-of-sale (POS) displays for Tumblewalla–a local baby clothing brand–that can be found in retailers around the Twin Cities. Ashley LeMay came to Dunwoody after working for 10 years as a teaching assistant for special education in the St. Paul Public School system when Dunwoody Pre-Media Principal Instructor Pete […]