Pratt Students Win Big in Las Vegas

Ten Pratt students were honored during the 2013 PackExpo convention on Monday, September 23rd in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s (PPA) annual student design challenge awards luncheon. Four Pratt teams advised by Graduate Communications Design Visiting Instructor, Thomas Delaney participated in this years’ PPA challenge: develop innovative packaging solutions for a fictitious movie theatre style candy package.

A record number of students from the US and Canada participated in this year’s challenge, with more than 190 students competing from 13 leading packaging and graphic design programs.

First place winners for their “woops!” concept are: Jennifer Ip, Elizabeth Taurisani & Amy Shun Yeh.

Second place winners for their “Twisters” concept are: Marina Brant, Renato Martins Cerqueira, Maija Rozenfelde & Jessica Vande Werken.

Fourth place finalists for their “spinits” concept are: Anna Ocon Beltran, Andrea Bernardo & Kai-Ting Fan.

Additionally; Shijia Gu, Simin Li & Xiaomeng Shi represented at the awards presentation with their “Tango” concept.

For more information about the PPA Student Design Challenge, visit www.paperboardpackaging.org.