Youth Design Interview Day 2011
The Youth Design team interviews a fantastic group of talented students on April 30th at MassArt!
Winter WarmUp Feb ’11 Recap!
Youth Design’s Winter WarmUp took place February 1st, 2011 at the Liberty Hotel in Boston. Designers and Boston business leaders joined together to host the evening in support of YOUTH DESIGN while guests enjoyed warming cocktails and ‘Winter Warm-Up’ comfort food tastings set to a soundtrack of ‘hot’ rhythms.
We presented our first annual “2011 Mentor of The Year” award to Josh Bruno, Director of the School-To-Career program at the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC). There were also be brief presentations from YD student graduates and Founder, Denise Korn.
Check out our interview on Karmaloop and the Boston Globe!
SAVE THE DATE: Winter WarmUp 2011!
Kirkwood Prints YD Notecards + 10 Who Mentor!
Snapshots from YD Founder Denise Korn, at her day on press with 10 Who Mentor: her book profiling inspiring mentors, leaders such as Daniel Boulud, Renee Robinson, and Bill Strickland. This book was funded by a Sappi Ideas That Matter grant and will be sold with 100% of the proceeds benefitting Youth Design. The Youth Design notecards are also captured above, featuring the top 10 designs of the 2010 Time to Design competition.
Thank you to our friends at Kirkwood Printing, for their continued support of Youth Design!
STUFF Boston is spreading some love for our Time to Design T-Shirts
check us out on today’s STUFF We Love page:
YOUTH DESIGN is looking to make your holiday shopping a little easier this year. Choose from 3 killer t-shirts and feel good about your purchase — 100% of the proceeds benefit YOUTH DESIGN!
BUY YOUR SHIRT NOW FROM THE KARMALOOP KAZBAH STORE!
These shirts were designed by Ivan Richiez of Madison Park High School, and Dimitri Duboisson of Media Tech Communications High School, and Emily Chang of Boston Latin School (respectively). Kudos to their mentoring firms CONTINUUM and TANK for their dedicated work in supporting the next generation of creative professionals!
KarmaloopTV catches up with YOUTH DESIGN Founder Denise Korn!
Katie’s work featured in sneaker design workshop!
Youth Design 2010 alum Katie Colonna created a winning design which scored her the chance to participate in the first-ever FemaleSneakerFiend Sister 2 Sister sneaker design workshop!
Sister2Sister brought together a talented and diverse group of aspiring female designers, with leading female sneaker design mentors from companies like Converse, Reebok, and Sperry Topsider for an awesome 2 day workshop which challenged the young designers to create a signature sneaker design! This unique event also featured a panel discussion in which the mentors shared industry-specific educational and professional development advice.
For more event information and pictures check out: http://femalesneakerfiend.com/events/sister2sister.html
Congrats, Katie!
Youth Design Time to Design Competition: Grand Prize Winners 2010!
First Place: Ivan Richiez, Madison Park High School
Second Place: Dimitri Duboisson, Media Tech High School
Third Place: Emily Chang, Boston Latin School
THE ASSIGNMENT: Youth Design students were asked to design a message, image, or combination of message with image that conveyed their ideas about a topic that is relevant to the world around them. Entries were directed towards a political view, a thought or idea about the community, the state of the environment, education, and beyond.
These designs will be printed on a limited set of T-Shirts that will be sold to support Youth Design.
Congratulations to our top 3 winners!
Youth Design Graduation Slideshow 2010
Check out our slideshow, featured at the Youth Design graduation, to see what students were up to this summer!