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DESIGN STUDENT WINS ISME POSTER COMPETITION Lincoln, Neb.-The International Society for Music Education (ISME), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, held a poster competition for University of Nebraska-Lincoln graphic design students to design an anniversary poster for the organization. Trenton Claus, a Bachelor of Fine Arts senior from Lincoln, is the winner of the poster competition. Claus received $500 from ISME, and his winning poster design will be produced and distributed internationally.  Trent Claus' winning poster design The winning poster design was announced at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Honors Day Dinner on Saturday, April 24. Dean Giacomo M. Oliva is the President of ISME. "I was really honored," Claus said. "It was a lot of fun. When your school project is for an actual client, it makes it more interesting."  Trent Claus with Dean Giacomo M. Oliva "ISME is an organization that has world-wide notoriety in the field of music education. Our students' participation in the poster contest activity has enabled us to showcase the work of our students in an international setting and has also given our graphic design program, as well as the Department of Art and Art History and College important international visibility," Oliva said. Four other graphic design students were selected as Finalists in the competition: Kyle Behrens, a senior Bachelor of Fine Arts major from Walton, Neb.; Jane Bohling, a senior Bachelor of Fine Arts major from Ceresco, Neb.; Shauna Goodsman, a senior Bachelor of Fine Arts major from Lincoln; and Mike Vithoulkas, a junior Bachelor of Fine Arts major from Chicago, Ill. "This was a great opportunity for our graphic design students to have," Associate Professor Ron Bartels said. "Because of the diverse worldwide nature of ISME, this provided our design students with a project that allowed them to research beyond the scope of a typical Lincoln-based entity. This project helped to advance their in-class work for their professional graphic design portfolios, which they rely upon heavily in seeking career opportunities." The twenty-three students in Bartels' Graphic Design 323 Typography class met with Oliva at the beginning of the spring semester to learn of the communication parameters, such as what the composition of ISME is and what the audience profile of the receivers is. Each student prepared two posters: one which was all typographic in nature and one which was both typography and image. Three graduate students in graphic design ranked the work and determined the five finalists in consultation with Bartels. The ISME Executive Committee then voted to determine the winner. "The ISME Executive Committee was extremely pleased with the quality of the students' work, and to be sure, the task of selecting the winner was a most difficult one," Oliva said. The International Society for Music Education's primary goal is that of serving the music educators of the world. ISME began in 1953 at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) conference in Brussels, Belgium. Today, ISME members come from more than 70 different countries, from Angola to Zimbabwe. |
