Virginia Patterson, senior in graphic design, will have her work featured in CMYK Magazine's "Top 100 New Creatives" issue.
Once a year, CMYK Magazine has a contest that is open to students and non-professional designers, Patterson said.
Those who apply can submit an unlimited amount of images, but Patterson submitted approximately 10.
"It's open world wide and then they go through and select the top 100 images and then you become one of the top 100 new creatives," Patterson said.
Patterson submitted 10 images that feature one specific project that she created.
"She chose to work with a company that she made up called Locavore, and it's about eating local food," said Ray Dugas, professor of graphic design. "She created a new identity for that company and she did an add campaign featuring adds illustrated with photography and hand lettering."
Patterson said that she is passionate about eating locally.
Patterson sent in her designs last year.
All designs were created over the course of the previous year.
The work that was selected was done in Dugas' class, graphic design one, and was selected for the portfolio category, Dugas said.
"It's a big honor and it's a really well known publication in the design community and perhaps among non-designers too," Patterson said. "It's a big honor to be featured in it."
Robert Finkel, assistant professor of graphic design, currently has Patterson as a student.
Finkel said that Patterson deserves to have her work featured in the magazine.
"I think for Virginia to be in there is just a testament to her abilities and to her talent," Finkel said. "It's also a testament to the graphic design program here at Auburn; while we are a regional department school in a lot of ways, we do still have talent that can compete on a national landscape."
Patterson said that she has participated in other publication contests similar to this one.
She believes it's an easy way to get her work out there.
"As visual designers, the only way you can present your work is visually and it's really important to showcase it to as many people as you can," Patterson said. "It's important to be proactive in whatever career you are following in order to be successful."
Patterson is self-motivated, creative and very smart with her designs, Finkel said.
She oversees all the details of a project as well as the larger concepts by communicating with typography, color and shape, Finkel said.
"She's a great student to work with, she's highly focused and she is very smart, bright and easy to work with," Dugas said. "She's really serious about her career and she has formulated strong background in the history of design and I think she plans on attending graduate school in graphic design too."
Patterson confirms plans for graduate school, saying that she hopes to teach design in the future.
More information on Patterson's work can be found at http://digd.auburn.edu/graphicdesign/ or her website virginiapattersondesign.com.
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