AUK Graphic Design Students Attend Conference in Oman

Professor Maryam Hosseinnia and William Andersen, and five of their graphic design students, traveled to Ibri to take part in the 2nd Annual International Design Conference and Exhibition at the Ibri College of Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman from May 1-3, 2010.

Ibri is a 3 and a half hour drive southwest of Muscat with a population of thirty thousand. In the heart of the desert, there is a design program with majors in digital media and print design. This year's conference theme was "Design Identity" and the notion of how identity can at times be seemingly neglected in the process of globalization and modernization.

The paper that Professor Hosseinnia and Andersen presented was based on their experience of creating a collaborative art project that had involved the same five students that traveled with them to Ibri. The students also gave presentations at the conference on their graphic design class projects.