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UCDA Design Competition judges from top to bottom:
Jean Bevier
Ellen Laning
Bruce Stanley
Vanessa Correa
George Thompson
I-nan Chen
Eric Benson

PRINT JUDGES
Jean Bevier
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Dominican University

Jean Bevier is an assistant professor of graphic design at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She received an MA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University and an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. In 2007, Jean was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award at Dominican University. In addition to teaching, Jean creates works that explore language and typography through a variety of mediums. Jean also contributed an essay to Julius Friedman: Images and Ideas, published by Butler Books. Jean is an emeritus member of the University & College Designers Association, having served on its Board of Directors as well as co-chairing two national conferences for design educators. She has been a UCDA member since 1990 and currently serves on the UCDA Foundation Board of Directors.
Ellen Laning
Creative Director, Lime Twig
Ellen Laning has spent the past five years as the creative director at Lime Twig, a marketing communications firm specializing in higher education and known for extraordinary creative work. As a creative director and designer, Ellen is equally adept at developing visual solutions for both print and digital projects for clients including USC, Caltech, Mount St. Mary's College, Scripps College, La Sierra University, Santa Monica College, Whittier College and many others.

Working with colleges and universities is a return to her roots. Early in her career, Ellen was a designer at the University of California Irvine. She then worked as senior designer at a large advertising agency, and later became owner of a highly regarded boutique design studio.

Ellen enjoys the challenge of creating design that truly reflects the unique personality of a school. In her spare time she can be found listening to live Americana and roots music and planning her next travel adventure.

Bruce Stanley
Senior Faculty/Graphic Design Coordinator, Nossi College of Art
Bruce Stanley, senior faculty and graphic design coordinator at Nossi College of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, relishes every part of the creative process and believes everyone is creative and has something to contribute. After graduating Middle Tennessee State University with a BFA in Graphic Design, Bruce served 16 years in the Nashville advertising community with leading agencies such as redpepper, White Thompson, Dye VanMol & Lawrence, Bohan and Carden & Cherry and has received multiple accolades such as Addy, Telly and London International awards. He has worked with such prestigious brands as Jack Daniels, HCA, John Deere, The NHL, The AFL, The NFL, CAO Cigars, Kirkland's, CaseMate, Purity, Averitt, and others. Bruce is a designer, art director and creative director. It is his approach to foster an environment where talented people can take ownership in their creativity and personal growth. Challenging people to reach their potential is his true value as a Educator and Mentor. Aligning people to be in-tune with their creative potential and being a persistent coach to achieve desired goals is his talent. Having hard conversations about today's advertising industry is what he would like to be remembered by.
ELECTRONIC MEDIA JUDGES

Vanessa Correa

Creative Director, University of California, Office of the President

Following her tenure as a designer and educator at the Vanderbilt Museum in New York, Vanessa Correa spent six years as an award-winning creative director and vice president, and then, creative consultant, for Jasculca/Terman and Associates (JT). As a creative director and designer, she developed high profile, comprehensive visual solutions for, among others, the Million Mom March, Senator Hillary Clinton, Chicago Housing Authority, McDonald's Corporation, DeVry University and Keller School of Management, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

She went on to serve as senior partner and co-founder of a Chicago-based design firm, spearheading projects with such clients as University of Illinois at Chicago, Hollis Taggart Galleries, SOS Children's Villages, Hard Rock Hotel Chicago and Northwestern University.

More recently, Vanessa established Kanan Design, a full-service strategic visual communications firm. Vanessa provides conceptual, stylistic and managerial direction to the Kanan Design stable of graphic and interactive media designers, while counseling and crafting creative vision for corporate, governmental and not-for-profit entities such as Poetry Foundation, University of Illinois, Stanford University, Rush University Medical Center, and University of Illinois at Chicago Graduate College, among others.

In April of 2009, she was brought on to serve as the creative director at the University of California.

She holds a Master of Design degree from the University of Cincinnati's Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP).

George Thompson
Web Content Manager, Widener University

George Thompson is web content manager at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. George has twenty-plus years experience as a technical writer, technology journalist, and IT market analyst (laptop and mobile technologies), and also ten-plus years in web writing, editing, and web site development and management.

George's most recent experience includes technology instruction and training in secondary and higher ed institutions.

I-nan Chen
Manager of Creative Services, Development and Alumni Relations, McGill University

I-nan Chen brings more than 18 years of design experience in advertising, branding strategy, corporate identity, promotions, package design, product design, internet marketing, and web design. He holds a Masters in Communication Design from Pratt Institute of New York, and a BS in Information Engineering from Fang-Chia University, Taiwan. His work has won numerous awards including Reggie Awards, Marketing Agencies Association Awards, CASE Communication Awards, and the CCAE Prix d'Excellance.

I-nan has created designs for companies such as Mercedez Benz, Singapore Airlines, China Trust Bank, Furi Design, Ice.com, Diamond.com, Wal-Mart, Bic, abcNews.com, Slim-Fast, Stouffer's, Kraft Foods and Coca-Cola.

I-nan has also expressed his passion for design as owner and designer of his own fine jewelry company, Si Collections. I-nan has been featured in magazine articles for his jewelry designs by Factico Magazine and DEXIGNER Magazine. His jewelry designs have been exhibited at galleries and museum gift shops, including Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Maryland, and The Alamo Museum of Texas.

GREEN JUDGE

Eric Benson

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Illinois

Eric Benson is an award-winning designer, educator at the University of Illinois, published author, activist and international speaker on sustainable design theory and practice. He received his BFA in graphic and industrial design from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1998 and his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 (with a concentration in design and social responsibility).

Eric's work professionally has been focused on creating enriching digital experiences on the web and environmentally friendly print and packaging material. He has provided digital and print work for such clients as Credit Suisse First Boston, MADD, Texas Instruments, Toyota, the Vanguard Group, and Whole Foods Market. His research is available at www.re-nourish.com, which is the industry's first truly independent online toolkit for sustainable graphic design. By providing reliable, accessible sustainability tools untethered to commercial interests, Re-nourish empowers graphic designers to implement sustainable decision making in their day-to-day work, helping sustainable graphic design become what design is, not merely what it "could be."