CSUF Outwins Other Schools at Key Art Awards

CSUF was the only school this year to take two top awards in the 2009 Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards Student Competition. In the print category, Graphic Design student, Jimmy Hsieh, won 1st place, and two more nominations wen to Anita Sougu and Jordan Lee. In the trailer category, Entertainment Arts/Animation student, Chi-Hao "Howard" Cheng, took 3rd place, and his classmate Julie Douglas received a nomination. Cal State Fullerton continues to dominate this competition. This year again, it had more nominations than any other school. Professor Cheryl Savala-Lalicker, who teaches the Entertainment Graphics class (ART 483E) where students learn the skills to designing top-notch movie posters, has had more students win in the poster category than any other in the nation. Last year, her students took the three poster awards. This year, a change in the rules, which permitted no more than one student per school per category, kept Savala-Lalicker's students from possibly winning more awards. Students learn the art of trailer design in Professor Christian Hill's Motion Graphics Design class (ART 483I). Last year, his student Dara Cornell won the top prize in the trailer category. The announcement event and display of entries took place last Thursday May 14, at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.