Best of CASE District V Award
 

Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Title of entry: Stamps School Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Poster Illustration

About this entry: As an art and design school, it is important that we recognize the creative work of our students. The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduates. The exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors, with awards announced at the top of the exhibition reception.

In order to promote this highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, we wanted to continue the celebration of student work by featuring an original student illustration that captured the themes of the exhibition. Created by student graphic designer, Erika Delfino, the featured moth/dove illustration—and its intentionally varied degree of detail and finish—conveys themes of hope, metamorphosis, process, and thriving creativity while the "eyes" on this hybrid creature's wings also play on ideas of seeing and being seen.