Two Academy Students Awarded in Asian Heritage Poster Contest
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
A crane shaped like the number seven is the visual motif of a poster designed by two Academy students for San Francisco’s 7th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration. Virgilio Leynes, Jr., and Minh Tran are the youngest-ever winners of the poster competition for this celebration of Asia-Pacific cultures and peoples in the Bay Area.
The two friends, both attending the School of Web Design + New Media at the university, incorporated the crane in their poster design because of its presence and positive associations in the arts across Asia — often representing long life, peace, prosperity and wisdom. Their winning poster nets the designers a cash prize and, more significantly, exposure: The design will be featured in a marketing campaign in the form of printed posters, postcards, Muni bus ads, BART banners, bus shelter graphics, newspaper ads and a TV commercial.
The poster competition was sponsored by the Asian Art Museum, the Center for Asian American Media and the Kearny Street Workshop.”This contest is a great opportunity for any aspiring artist to have their work showcased on such a large scale through a major citywide multimedia advertising campaign,” says Jennifer Yin, Marketing and Communications associate at the museum.
Minh Tran and Virgilio Leynes, Jr
Leynes, 22, is an international student from the Philippines who expects to graduate in 2012. Tran, who anticipates graduating in 2014, is the founder of several initiatives at the Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center in San Francisco.
The 2011 Asian Heritage Street Celebration will be held Saturday, May 21, in front of the Asian Art Museum, leading up to the city’s Little Saigon District.
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August 3rd, 2011
“Hi, I’m a neighboring resident near your new location in the Cannery and welcome you to the neighborhood ! Several of the community organizations I belong to look forward to any participation and involvement, from the Academy, in the effort of creating a more elegant and beautiful area. We have several ideas for preserving and enhancing the artistic, cultural and historical improvement of the Conrad Square District. Conrad Square, across the street from the Cannery, has an active committee and group involved in forming plans to possibly incorporate art and sculpture into a children’s playground portion of the park. Creating an artistic “wall of history” on the “dead” Holiday Inn Wall has also been suggested. I would love to hear what input and participation the students and staff might want to have in this vibrant neighborhood.. Betty Foote”