Graphic Design Week 2025

Graphic Design Week is a departmental community-engagement week of activities hosted by invited professional designers to present their innovative work, meet with students, and lead thoughtful workshops.

  • Patrick Finley, Organizer
    Maegan Luckiesh, Assistant Organizer
    Paige Panosh, Branding & Screen Printing
    Lamaur Benjamin, Branding & Communications
    Nadine Khoury, 3D Modeling
    Gonzalo Espenoza, 3D Modeling & Photography
    Josiah Graves, Photography
    Jamie Beal, Photography
    Jesse Benbrook, Photography

  • Ecosystem for Inspired Hope
    Raising Readers
    Wildwood Collective
    AYDE
    Central Iowa Shelter & Services
    Chic Behavioral Health and Community Services
    World Food Prize
    Ames: A Glimpse Inside
    Midwest Pullers Association
    Crossed Arrows
    Weekends with Warriors
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Story County
    Community Foundation for Inspired Giving
    The Giving Group
    Stop Trafficking Now
    Iowa Business Education Association
    Bondurant Sons of the American Legion

  • WHO13: “ISU hosts first-ever philanthropic design-a-thon”

    KCCI8: “Iowa State students partner with nonprofits for Design-a-Thon”

    Iowa State Daily: “Over 100 graphic design students participate in philanthropic design-a-thon”

  • 2024 AIGA 365 – Social Design Winner

    2024 Graphis Design Awards – Honorable Mention

    2024 Indigo 7th Annual Design Awards – Silver Winner in Logos for Social Change

    2024 Indigo 7th Annual Design Awards – Silver Winner in Logos for Graphic Design

    2024 United Design Alliance's Signs, Symbols, and Letterform Marks – Gold Winner in Signs

    2024 Art Director's Association of Iowa's (ADAI) 66th Annual Design Exhibition – Best-of-Show

    2024 Art Director's Association of Iowa's (ADAI) 66th Annual Design Exhibition – Category Winner in Identity Mark

    2024 Art Director's Association of Iowa's (ADAI) 66th Annual Design Exhibition – Excellence Award in Identity Mark