The big day: VTech
May 15, 2008The big day finally arrived. A little nervous, yes. Excited? Of course.
Eight weeks into spring quarter and just two days shy of having spent a full week in Hong Kong, the industrial design students — Jesse, Marcus, Jacob, Ryan C., Julie, Matt, Will, Pat, Drew, Ryan, Ish, Bradley, Dan, Austin and Carl — presented their final design concepts to VTech designers David Waterman and Joshua Fischer. And, safe to say, they blew away their captive audience.
David remarked that the work of the collective group is the best he’s seen of any student work from any college in the world. The adjectives “impressive” and “professional” repeatedly preceded comments on the students’ presentation skills, process sketches, research and concept ideas.
The group made SCAD history as the college’s first-ever student group to travel internationally and present to a real world client. As professors Peter Fossick and Joel Wittkamp said later in the afternoon, while being interviewed along with Marcus and Jesse by the South China Morning Post (Young Post), it is the first of [hopefully] many future class experiences like Hong Kong.
During an evening reception for some of our company hosts at Felix’s, David Waterman explained to a reporter from Hinge Magazine the necessity for design students to experience a class project such as the SCAD and VTech.
You guys ROCKED!!! Thank you for this amazing trip… HON
Aww; ya’all makin’ me proud.
Ryan – you look like a corporate executive.
The subway shot at the top is classic. Last minute, and Will looks like he hasn’t slept in days.