The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) announced the winners of the 2019 PAVE Student Design Competition sponsored by Bank of America. This annual competition is geared toward college-level students involved in retail planning, visual merchandising, and branding programs. 

The competition's design challenge provides an excellent opportunity for students to obtain real-life retail design experience. Prizes included grants to students and schools, and winning students may even see their designs come to life. The competition was open to undergraduate students only. Judging took place on November 13, 2019 at The Bank of America design offices in New York, New York.

• 1st Place – $8,000 – Kareena Sankreacha, Humber College

School awards for students placing in the top three:

• $1,000 – Humber College

This year's winners faced a competitive field of more than 350 entries.

Judging the 2019 competition were:

Rebekah Sigfrids – Senior Vice President, Financial Center Design & Innovation, Bank of America
Malcolm Lee – Design Director & Strategist, Bank of America
Aaron Birney – Global Retail Leader/Design Principal, Gensler
Todd Bracher – Strategic Designer/Creative Director, Todd Bracher Studio
Lena Lim – Vice President, Business Development, B+N Industries
Karen Pearse – CEO & President, Karen Pearse Global Direct
Cindi Kato – Vice President, CallisonRTKL
Norman Roberts – Vice President/Managing Creative Director, FRCH NELSON

IBM has recently provided Humber no-charge access to the full suite of IBM tools, in support of applied research.

This includes cloud access to powerful services and the most prominent open-source computer technologies, as well as hands-on resources to learn about data and analytics, Internet of Things, and security.

Access to Watson, IBM's suite of enterprise-ready AI services, applications and tooling, is also included.

Humber staff, students and faculty can sign-up to receive access using their Humber credentials via ibm.biz/academic.

On the latest episode of Humber NEXTcast, available free on Soundcloud and iTunes, we speak with professor Laura Berg about a real-world learning experiential learning project she developed for students in the Professional Writing and Communications program.  

“A lot of students have been excited to work with a real client. It wasn't a hard switch. I think you enroll in a college program, in part, to develop more real-life skills...like receiving feedback from a client. Teaching those skills is just as important as teaching the material.”

— Laura Berg

You can listen to the episode here. 

NEXTcast is a podcast about teaching and learning at Humber College, created by Humber Press and the Teaching and Learning Support team.

New episodes go up on Soundcloud and iTunes every second week.

To suggest a future guest or topic, email Humber Press at humberpress@humber.ca.

Kristin Valois

Humber Press

Research participant opportunity 

We are currently conducting a project that is exploring the impact of image deformations on recognition of faces using a card-sorting methodology, and we are still looking for a few more participants!