Fayetteville’s New Design School will hold their 10th Annual New Design School Winter Gala:  A Gift to the Community featuring Sweets for Education on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 from 6-9pm at Hayseed Ventures in the Old Post Office on the downtown Fayetteville Square.  Admission is free and open to all.  Tickets are not required.  All proceeds raised from the event benefit scholarships.

Oscar winner David Kersey will give a brief talk about his computer animation experience working on the blockbuster Frozen.

The first 50 guests will receive a special thank you gift of six holiday postcards designed by our current students and alumni, made possible by Moxy Ox.

Sample some savory delights from The Green Goat food truck or buy your tickets now to be a Sweets Education Taster and Poster Juror.  Tickets are only $10 to taste 6 desserts!  As a Sweets Taster you get to try 6 desserts from 6 different local chefs. Students will have been paired a chef to create a poster to promote each sweet creation. You get to vote for your favorite sweet & poster combination. The winning chef gets an award and the student receives the People’s Choice Award, a scholarship toward tuition at New Design School.

Chefs include Vince Pianalto and team from Bouchee, Tammy Varnay of Greenhouse Grille and Woodstone Pizza, Diane and Larry of Briar Rose Bakery, Max and the team from Bliss Cupcakes. Enjoy entertainment generously provided by Handmade Moments & Candy Lee.

View and buy the inaugural New Design School Press book: Henrietta Holcomb’s Dream and meet the author Margaret Hoclomb.  Check out the booths of New Design School students who will each have a dedicated space to feature their school, freelance and personal graphic design, fine art and illustration.

Purchase New Design School student’s personal art and graphic design.  Shop our graphic design packages from our design studio: Logotype + 1-page styleguide; Logotype + 1-page styleguide + Facebook & Twitter banner; Logotype + 1-page styleguide + Facebook & Twitter banner + 5 page basic website.

Find out who local design professionals choose for this year’s Juror’s Choice Award, a scholarship based on work that exhibits the most promise in the field of graphic design. Meet the previous People’s Choice and Juror’s Choice Award winners and learn where and what they are up to now.

Sip some free hot cider and stroll the Lights of the Ozarks just outside of the venue.  Park in the Town Center Parking Deck or the lot behind the Bank of Fayetteville or behind Hugo’s.

In the winter of 2005, New Design School (NDS) launched its mission in South Fayetteville on the corner of then 6th St. (today MLK JR. Blvd) and Government. NDS offers the first and only certificate program in graphic design in the state of Arkansas. For ten years, students have traveled as far as Oklahoma, Missouri and Central Arkansas to learn the basics of visual communication for graphic and web design. This all began with a vision from founder Sonia Davis Gutierrez who was teaching in 2001 in New York City in a similar certificate-granting education program for adult students wanting to transition to new careers.

Inspired by this teaching experience, NDS founder Sonia Davis Gutierrez states, “I wanted to bring this [Parsons School of Design] caliber of design education to Northwest Arkansas.  Fayetteville already offered a great student culture. I had a vision to offer a myriad of design studies with a healthy dose of business and creativity development to the many talented individuals of Arkansas who might not be able to leave their home to study outside of the state or country.” Davis Gutierrez has done both having studied design in New York City at Parsons School of Design and in Europe at the Universidad of Salmanca in Spain.

Over the last ten years, New Design School has taught artists, self-employed individuals, city employees, corporate groups, government departments, children and young adults the basics of visual communication through workshops and academic seminars.

VISIT:  NEWDESIGNSCHOOL.ORG

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