The newspaper honor box, that is. Subtle design modifications have gone into in over time, but basically, it hasn’t changed much in over 20 years. Aside from plastic variations, the occasional pedestal-shaped model, and the abhorrent clustered kiosk (stripping all branding in a one-stop shopping newspaper mall), they haven’t benefitted from any real design innovation since their inception. That is until now. The Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Illustration students at The University of the Arts devoted some serious critical thinking to this issue when we challenged them to re-imagine the concept of information distribution, in celebration of Design Philadelphia. Here are the winning entries from the UArts Graphic Design Department. 

Free Box - Ashley Simmons and Lauren Smedley

Rate Philly - SE Young Kim, Eunice Lai, Elizabeth Morrison,  Tara Taylor

Redacted - Rebecca Haviland, Keella Murnane, Amanda Eutsey

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MyCityPaper - Joe Vu, Cathy Socci, Ryan Casey, Gordon Sexton, Brian Santoro

From the Illustration department:

Rachel Burkhard - Illustrator

And from the Industrial Design Department.

Flower Box - Thomas Reynolds, Shannon Malone

The Honor Bowl - Adam Rusiski, Wesley Thomas

Read more about the project in Brian Howard’s Editor’s Letter in today’s City Paper.

Check out other City Paper coverage of Design Philadelphia here.

Props to all of the students at Uarts who responded so creatively to our challenge. And, to the professors who guided this process on short notice. Namely, Dean Steve Tarantal, Chris Myers, Tony Guido, Kristie Williams, Richard Felton, Laurence Bach, Debra Drodvillo, Jennifer Bernstein, Matthew Curtius, Jennifer Goettner, and Regina Barthmaier.

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