Associate Professor Wins National Design Award

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Moon Jang won a national design competition, the Print Regional Design Award (RDA), with her editorial design for the American Craft Inquiry Volume 1, Issue 2. The RDA is the industry’s most prestigious and well-respected American design competition. Jang’s winning work will be featured in the all-new HOW + Print book The Best of Design scheduled to be released in Summer of 2019 and in an online gallery at printmag.com.Thousands of art directors, studios, and creative professionals not only enter the RDA every year, but also look to it to find the country’s top talent. The RDA collects the best designs from every state across the U.S.

Jang worked as the creative director and designer for American Craft Inquiry, Volume 2, Issue 1 published by the American Craft Council in June, 2018. This issue edited by Michael Radyk features artists and their exhibition highlights: Jiseon Lee Isbara, Marie Watt, and Lily Hope and essays on contemporary and historical craft issues and artifacts from the American Craft Council Archives including “This is My Work: The Rise of Women in Woodworking” by Anne Carlisle; “Driving the Point” by Kristin Müller; “The Political Hand” by Anna Walke; “American Made, American Maker” by Jennifer Ling Datchuk; “Power Object: Rose B. Simpson’s Maria” by Sarah Archer; and “From the Cerebral Dimestore: Interview” with Mark Burns.

American Craft Inquiry is available at national art and design museums, shops, university libraries, including University of Georgia’s main library, as well as the Art Library in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The American Craft Council is an arts nonprofit committed to cultivating a culture of making and recognizing the significant impact craft has on individuals and communities. The group aims to preserve, cultivate, and celebrate the communal craft heritage.