🎓 Up-and-Coming Student Designers to Watch

🎨 These inspirational and cutting-edge designers are a breath of fresh air. With fresh takes on everything from packaging to public spaces, they’re changing the game and are definitely some hot talent to watch.

✏️ Public Space in Private Time

Sisi Sixiao Chen’s Public Space in Private Time design won them a well-deserved Gold Indigo Award in Branding for Graphic Design. This exhibition shows how the intersection of urban development, gentrification, and technology can change the dynamics of a city. You can see a visual representation of this on a public screen, which fills up with more pixelization as urban noise increases. It’s a way to map the living city in an easily digestible art form that’s brilliant in its straightforwardness.

✏️ Trash Museum 

Nicole Buitrago took home an Indigo Design Gold award in Branding for Graphic Design for her Trash Museum, which challenges our notions of trash and art. The blocky logo and smart use of light green are an effective way to promote the museum, and the small words “art” and “waste” in the logo’s “s” emphasize the renewal cycle that happens when we’re able to look beyond standard definitions of what is trash.

✏️ Osmosis 

Osmosis is a gold-winning project by Mary Kim. It turns your standard music festival branding on its head by infusing the electronic music scene with nature. The dichotomy is super memorable and speaks to the harmony you can find at the intersection of technology and nature.