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Category: Students to Watch 2016
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Fernando Capeto
MFA Design candidate Fernando Capeto is pursuing an MFA in Design from SVA.
Claudine Eriksson
BFA Design candidate Claudine Eriksson is a multidisciplinary designer living in Brooklyn NY and pursuing a BFA in Design from SVA.
Abby Edwards
Abby Edwards is currently a senior Graphic Design student at SCAD.
Peter Garvin
Peter Garvin is senior design student at SCAD currently planning his next steps into the field.
Caitlin Weber
Caitlin Weber is a Social Design masters student in the Center for Social Design at MICA
Douglas Thomas
Douglas Thomas is a graphic designer and type historian who believes that research and strong conceptual thinking create the best design.
Gabriel Melcher
Originally from Santa Fe NM, Gabriel Melcher is a graphic designer based in Providence RI.
Lukas Eigler-Harding
Lukas spends his time obsessing over lenticulars, lifestyle brands, lavender, rubber eggs, instamemes, bootcut denim, and the alphabet.
Barron Webster
Barron is an artist/designer/whatever who graduates from RISD Graphic Design in 2016, after which he plans to live in a city and hopefully exchange labor for money.
Nyein Thu
Nyein Thu was born and raised in Myanmar (Burma) and is currently a senior studying abroad at Boston University.
Samantha Watson
Samantha Watson is a designer finishing her senior year at RIT’s School of Design.
Nathan Gamson
Nathan is a fourth year Graphic Design student at RIT.
Laura Hoerner
Laura Hoerner is a fourth year Graphic Design student at the School of Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Henrique Eira
Henrique Eira is a graphic designer from Brasilia, Brazil, and currently a candidate in the Graphic Design MFA program at CalArts.
Christiana Theophanopoulos
Christiana is a graduate packaging design student at Pratt Institute.
Andrew Diemer
Andrew Diemer came to planet Earth on a mission to become an International Graphic Design professional.
Nicole Meyer
Nicole Meyer is a senior in the Graphic Design Communication program at Philadelphia University.
Caroline Noebels
Caroline Noebels is currently a senior at Philadelphia University, pursuing her B.S. in Graphic Design Communication.
Jermaine Boca
Jermaine Boca is completing her senior year at Drexel University and pursuing her BS in graphic design with an architecture minor.
Erin Chan
Erin pursued architecture before realizing her true passion is graphic design, a program from which she will graduate with a BS in March 2016.
Lauren Landes
Lauren Landes’ life can be described in different shades of blue.
Caitlin McCurdy
Caitlin McCurdy feels, as a designer, that she has the freedom to make the world look the way she wants it to.
Riley Andrew Donahue
Inspired by his mother, an art teacher and head of a top art gallery, and his father, a decorated marine and nationally ranked swimmer, Riley learned that hard work was the key to his dreams.
Herman Awuku
Herman Awuku is an aspiring designer/art director from Stavanger, Norway.
Manuella Bonomi
Manuella Bonomi is a Nigerian art student currently studying Communication Design at PrattMWP.
Flavio Vincenti
Flavio Vincenti is a designer and student from Italy, descendant of renaissance artists and pizza makers.
Sierra Clark
Sierra Clark is a junior Advertising & Graphic Design major at Columbus College of Art & Design.
Caitlin Mulhall
Caitlin Mulhall is a future Advertising & Graphic Design graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design with minors in Business and Industrial Design.
Zainab Aliyu
Zainab Aliyu is a junior Communication Design student at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design.
Robyn Lambert
Robyn is currently a senior studying Communication Design with a second major in Human Computer Interaction.
Kevin Yang
Kevin Yang is a recent graduate of Full Sail University’s Digital Arts and Design Bachelor of Science degree program.
Sara Tinnick
Sara Tinnick is a graphic design superhero who uses knowledge to thwart typographic tyranny and catch color-space criminals.
Lisa Ferkel
Lisa Ferkel hails from Los Angeles and is currently living in San Francisco, finishing her final semester in Graphic Design at California College of the Arts.
Flavie Liu
Flavie Liu is a senior in Graphic Design and Photography at California College of the Arts.
Victor Chien
Victor Chien is a senior Graphic Design major at California College of the Arts.
Megan Lotter
Megan Lotter is a senior Graphic Design student at California College of the Arts, where she is pursuing her second degree.
Alvina Ng
Alvina Ng is a senior in Graphic Design at the California College of the Arts.
Kelsey Elder
Kelsey Elder is a MFA candidate in the 2D Design Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is working towards a thesis for graduation.