Thank You!
We thank the invited professional jurors, UIC Design alumni, and UIC faculty for their participation in the undergraduate student awards program, and to everyone who attended our Year End Show!
Professional Jurors
Michael Carabetta, Chronicle Books
Renda Helin Cilalioglu Cizer, Renda Helin Design
Karma Dabaghi, Lebanese American University
Ray Doeksen, Doeksen
Jenny El-Shamy, Indiana University
Jessica Giffin, SAIC
Patrick Gosnell, Austin Peay State University
Kyle Lindenman, Fuseneo
Dave Pabellon, Columbia College Chicago
Thomas Starr, Northeastern University
Matthew Terdich, Morningstar
Claire Warner, Volume Gallery
Guy Villa Jr, Columbia College Chicago
Faculty
Brian Anderson, MDes Thesis Faculty
Don Bergh
Linda Bracamontes-Roeger
Dakota Brown
Ted Burdett
Philip Burton
Lucía Garcés Dávila
Ted Davis
Meghan Ferrill, BDes/BA Thesis Faculty
Felicia Ferrone, BDes Thesis Faculty
Jack Henrie Fisher
Stephen Flemister
Paul Hatch
Amira Hegazy
Sung Jang
Dawn Joseph
Marcia Lausen
Mischa Leiner
Emily Litten
John Massey
Jonathan Mekinda
Pedro Neves, BDes Thesis Faculty
Lauren Manning Nichols
Sharon Oiga, BDes/MDes Thesis Faculty
TJ O’Keefe, BDes/MDes Thesis Faculty
Peter Pfanner
Michael Renner
Oliver Roeger
Andrew Russell
Jake Rynkiewicz
Aaron Scott
Michael Seskauskas
Rotimi Solola
Alex Sommerville
Grace Spee
Susan Stirling
Marco Susani
Norman Teague
Layne Thue-Bludworth
Cheryl Towler Weese, BA/MDes Thesis Faculty
Daria Tsoupikova-Preuss
Alexander Twaddle
Eric Von Haynes
Jennifer Wandro
Noah Wangerin
Kimberlee Wilkens, BDes Thesis Faculty
Robert Zolna
YES! 2023 Team
Meghan Ferrill
Ashley Keeton
Tara Kennedy
Marcia Lausen
Desi Lentz
Itzel Lopez
Sharon Oiga
Anna Regnerus
Grace Spee, Lead
With heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to the Design Fellows, in addition to Christian Oiticica, Alexander Jones, Daniel Mellis, as well as our Student Project Coordinators Rebecca Pizano, Jacob Romero, & Alyssa Velasquez, without whom we could not have put on this show. Thank you!
Messages to the Class of 2023:
For the first time, I had a hard time choosing in a jury... Great job, good luck to all of you!
— Renda Helin Cilalioglu Cizer, Renda Helin Design
The biggest congrats EVER to the wonderful class of 2023!! Thank you for all the brave, thought-provoking, challenging, amazing, beautiful work put forth in this year’s YES!. I am so proud of all of you!
— Grace Spee, UIC School of Design
Congratulations to all. Your work advances the field of design and is a reflection of your awareness of the world around you and the part design can play to make it a better place!
— Michael Carabetta, Chronicle Books
Congratulations class of 2023! Fantastic diversity of projects, talent and strong concepts. Good luck and we will miss you.
— Daria Tsoupikova, UIC School of Design
I thoroughly enjoyed YES 2023. The work forces us, the practice/profession, to expand the definition of who a graphic designer is and what a graphic designer can do.
— Dave Pabellon, Columbia College Chicago
On behalf of the faculty, CONGRATULATIONS to Class of 2023! You make us so proud!
— Sharon Oiga, UIC School of Design