Impressions Announces Student Award Winners

January 20, 2010

Don’t miss seeing the winners or the 2010 Impressions Awards Student Competition at this week’s Long Beach Imprinted Sportswear Show. Honoring excellence in high school screen and digital printing, this third-annual contest, which is presented by ISS, showcases participating students’ best achievements in five categories.

Congratulations to the following students and their educators on great work:

Best One- or Two-Color Screen Printed Design
1st: “Pirates”
Gloria Higareda
Paramount High School
David Yakubovsky, Instructor

2nd: “Wacky Olympian”
Kremlin Y. Perez
Paramount High School
David Yakubovsky, Instructor

3rd: “The Crush”
Yasmin Vega
Paramount High School
David Yakubovsky, Instructor

Best Multicolor Screen Printed Design
1st: “Once a Pirate”
Gloria Higareda
Paramount High School
David Yakubovsky, Instructor

2nd: “Fate”
Christian Hericks
Woodbridge High School
Dieter Kutz, Instructor

3rd: “Yes, I am a Pirate”
Cassandra Montenegro
Paramount High School
David Yakubovsky, Instructor

Best Special Effects Screen Printed Design
1st: “Class of 2010”
Ivette Rodriguez
Paramount High School
David Yakubovsky, Instructor
   
2nd: “Lets Go Shopping”
Jennie Matthews
Venice High School/Super Shop 9
Art Lindauer, Instructor
   
3rd: “No More Rose”
Peter Cho
Diamond Bar High School/ESGVROP
Jon Haprov, Instructor

Best Screen Printed Design; An Artist’s Award
1st: “Fate”
Christian Hericks
Woodbridge High School
Dieter Kutz, Instructor

2nd: “Amazing World”
Peter Cho
Diamond Bar High School/ESGVROP
Jon Haprov, Instructor

3rd: “No More Rose”
Peter Cho
Diamond Bar High School/ESGVROP
Jon Haprov, Instructor

Best Digital Garment Decoration
1st: “Angel”
Angelica Casiano
Venice High School/Super Shop 9
Art Lindauer, Instructor

2nd: “Love”
Hanan Ahmed
Venice High School/Super Shop 9
Art Lindauer, Instructor

3rd: “Pirates of Printing”
After School Graphics Club
Venice High School/Super Shop 9
Art Lindauer, Instructor

Grand Champion:
“Fate”
Christian Hericks
Woodbridge High School
Dieter Kutz, Instructor

School with the Most Winning Placements:
Paramount High School, David Yakubovsky, Instructor

Individual with the Most Winning Placements:
Peter Cho
Diamond Bar High School, Jon Haprov, Instructor

Impressions and ISS would like to thank the industry suppliers who sponsored this year’s competition. Their generous donations will enable these high school graphic arts programs to continue to grow the future of our industry:

Brother Corp., GT-541 Garment Printer (refurbished); Delta Apparel, 288 T-shirts; Digital Art Solutions, a MEGA Collection including CorelDraw X4, Smart Designer X4 and 20 DAS Template and ClipArt Collections — a $9,000 value; Franmar Chemical, 15 Textile Trial Kits incl. six safe and enviro-friendly screen printing cleaning chemicals, accessories and instructional DVD, and printed tip sheets for each step in the cleaning process; Gildan, 800 T-shirts; McLogan Supply, a screen printing package that includes one 1-color bench T-shirt printer, one 120V 16" x 16" flash cure unit, one spot cleaning gun kit and one 6-quart set of plastisol inks in various colors; Murakami Screen, a package that includes one gallon of HV photo-polymer emulsion with an 8-gram diazo, two 23/31 pre-stretched aluminum frames with 150/48 S-thread, two 23/31 pre-stretched aluminum frames with 180/48 S-thread, two 23/31 pre-stretched aluminum frames with 225/40 S-thread and two hours of free consulting — a $215 value; Ryonet Corp.,  a one 4-color, 1-station press with automated UV exposure unit — a $900 value; Wilcom,  two DecoStudio licenses; and Kornit.

See the winning designs in the Impressions booth, # 2247. — J.L.



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