What goes into an Olympic brand? A myriad of partnerships, a diverse population, a host region, and a world of expectations. Visually representing the 2010 Winter Olympic Games carries challenges and lessons of, well, Olympic proportions.
Lisa Landry sat down with photographer and UCDA member Matt Lester, to discuss his unique career and creative process.
In 1918, 24 women made history when they became the first admitted to William & Mary. Throughout the 2018 academic year, we celebrated this pivotal moment in the university’s history—the 100th anniversary of coeducation—as a time to reflect, to hono…
No one likes to be told that they don’t understand—or, worse yet, that they aren’t doing what they’re supposed to. So how do you conduct those potentially uncomfortable conversations without setting fire to the goodwill you’ve cultivated?
This decade has been one big bummer for U.S. workers, and the data confirms it: Prudential’s “Pulse of the American Worker” survey claimed more than half would switch jobs if they could. The same report said 1 in 4 “plan to look for a new job post-p…
I wanted to share a few creative exercises from a workshop I did this past summer during a month-long virtual camp for creative entrepreneurs. In the workshop, the facilitator had the attendees dig deep about what internal self talk we were currentl…
Being a boss and being a leader are two different things and they must be understood. Many people think that they are leaders just because they have been put in charge of a task or an assignment but in reality, they are just bosses.
No one likes to be told that they don’t understand—or, worse yet, that they aren’t doing what they’re supposed to. So how do you conduct those potentially uncomfortable conversations without setting fire to the goodwill you’ve cultivated?
Of the 134 entries received, UCDA awarded a first place, a second place, and eight honorable mentions.
Jon Jicha is an artist, designer, and a Professor Emeritus of Art in the School of Art and Design at Western Carolina University.