Graphics Textbook Highlights Chelsea Students' Web and Print Work

A new graphic design textbook from Davis Publications uses web sites and print layouts created by Chelsea CTE High School students as examples of effective design. In Communicating through Graphic Design, co-authors Kevin Gatta and Claire Mowbray Golding provide a comprehensive guide to the skills and techniques covered in a graphics curriculum. They include three examples of student work: e-portfolio web sites designed by Vicky Xu and Suleidy Baez, and a Harlem Week promotional poster created by Erika Loyola...

Ms. Loyola's poster also appears on the back cover of the textbook. The work is familiar to New York graphics educators since it won Second Place in the Annual Citywide Graphic Arts Competition in 2008. Ms. Kiri Bermack, Chelsea Commercial Art teacher, is listed as a senior educational art consultant in the text. Davis Publications is planning a reception to promote the book at Pratt Institute's  Manhattan campus this Spring.