Excellent design leads to success in the Bright Awards

This award celebrates outstanding achievement in creative digital fields. This is the fourth consecutive year that a Macleans College Visual arts student has won this award.

Amanda won the graphic design section with her project 8.cm. Her project explored the inner social and cultural workings of second-generation immigrant youths. This project features a bimonthly collaborative zine that draws together voices and art, from the youth to the youth. Amanda discussed how this edition's theme focuses on identity – intangible yet inseparable from our physical bodies. The zine uses semi-transparency and tactile flaps that hide and reveal details from sight in different positions.

The judges commended her “Excellent design and great understanding for layout, colour, composition and material. The work conveys a sense of fragility and yet shows depth.”