LISA CHAMP

PrattMWP, Brooklyn NY

Lisa Champ is creative force to be reckoned with. During her impressive two years at PrattMWP, she was chosen as Outstanding Communications Design student of 2009. As a sophomore, Lisa won an impressive 3 American Graphic Design Awards, was selected as the winner in the College category of the National Organization for Women's Love Your Body Poster Campaign, designed the logo for the America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk sponsored by the American Heart Association, and the ClubRed logo for the Upstate NY chapter of the Red Cross. Champ recently designed the typographic introduction for MTVU's Woodie Awards for the Best Video Woodie. Currently Champ attends Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. More of her work is at lisachamp.blogspot.com.

What makes you want to study design and be a designer? I am a designer because I can't imagine doing anything else. I am an observer, a thinker, and a doer. Designing is a plethora of jobs in one, and more importantly there are many solutions to one problem. I like making people think a certain way. I like organizing. I like breaking rules. I like to persuade people. I like thinking wrong. I like informing, but mostly, I like to make things look cool.