By: Alyssa Ochss | St. Clair Shores Sentinel | Published February 21, 2023
ST. CLAIR SHORES — The Shorewood Kiwanis Club of St. Clair Shores, in collaboration with Macomb Community College, has unveiled the winning logos for the Harper Charity Cruise scheduled for the end of August this year.
The three winning students, along with family members, faculty, sponsors and members of the Shorewood Kiwanis, attended an event on Feb. 10 where the winning logos were revealed.
Emily Cooper, 41, won first place; Rebecca Budd, 23, won second place; and Destin Hinton, 22, won third place. All three students are part of professor of collaborative media Deanna Sheehan’s Design 3 class. The class is required to complete an associate’s degree in design and layout.
Sean Patrick, manager of media relations at Macomb Community College, said in an email that the prizes were given by Roy Ford O’Brien and then matched by the Foren Family Foundation through the Macomb Community College Foundation. First place won $1,000, second place won $650 and third place won $350. Those ammounts were matched by the Foren Family Foundation.
Rosanne Minne, chairperson of the Shorewood Kiwanis, said they have been holding the contest since Shorewood took over the cruise in 2008. She said the contest is a lot of fun for all parties involved.
“I’m glad that the students all made a concerted effort,” Minne said. “I’m very proud of all of their artwork. It’s very exciting, the beginning stages toward our cruise.”
Sheehan said the contest was presented to all 18 students in her class as an assignment.
“We put it in our Design 3 class as a logo that’s specifically designed for a T-shirt, right, that we based it on a client-based project,” Sheehan said. “My goal to them was to give them specific things that you would get out in the real world from a client.”
The assignment included limiting the number of colors they were allowed to use, a limit on the car they were allowed to use in the design, and using the elements and principles of design, Sheehan added.
All three winning students said they had a lot of fun completing the project. Hinton said this was their second assignment of the semester.
“Yes, this was like a really fun contest; there was a lot of classroom engagement,” Hinton said. “Everyone came together, we’re all helping each other out with our posters and, you know, the design and everything, so it was a lot of fun.”
Hinton plans on going into the design field after he graduates either with a company or as a freelancer. Cooper hopes to graduate by the end of the 2023 and find a design job, but she’s not sure yet. Budd plans on graduating next winter and wants to travel north to do photography, and design and layout jobs on the side.