PAVE Announces 2009 Student Design Competition Winners

PAVE Announces 2009 Student Design Competition Winners
November 20, 2009

Hollywood, Fla.-based The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) announced the winners of its 2009 Student Design Competition. Macy's sponsored this year's competition, which was geared toward college-level students involved in retail planning, visual merchandising, interior design and branding programs. This year's winners faced a competitive field--373 entries were submitted, 238 in the overall store design category and 135 in the visual merchandising category. The 2009 competition challenged students to develop concepts in line with Macy's branding, product lines and retail stores. The competition's design challenges consisted of a visual merchandising category focusing on jewelry and a store design category focusing on women's shoes. Judging took place Nov. 11, at Macy's executive offices in New York. PAVE awarded $16,000 in grants to students and $6,000 in school awards based on the winning entries of its 2009 Student Design Competition.

The PAVE 2009 Student Design Competition Winners are:

Overall Store Design Category Winners
$3,000 - 1st Place - Yoon Jung Claire Cho, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
$2,000 - 2nd Place - Airida Turner, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
$1,500 - 3rd Place - Fernando Djohan, San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif.
$500 - Honorable Mention - Laura J. Heekin, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
$500 - Honorable Mention - Chao-Chen Kao, San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif.
$500 - Honorable Mention - Christina Maroni, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
$500 - Honorable Mention - Lindsey Richards, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
With Merit - Joyce Li, University College Falmouth, Penryn, Cornwall, England

Visual Merchandising Category
$3,000 - 1st Place - Cassandra Reed, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
$2,000 - 2nd Place - Marisa Carter, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
$1,500 - 3rd Place - Hayeon Choi, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
$500 - Honorable Mention - Genna Fellhauer, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
$500 - Honorable Mention - Lindsay Rodabaugh, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Schools with students placing in the top three of each category receive $1,000 for each placing student:
$2,000 - Fashion Institute of Technology, Interior Design
$1,000 - Fashion Institute of Technology, Visual and Exhibition Design
$1,000 - Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
$1,000 - San Jose State University
$1,000 - University of Cincinnati

Judges for the 2009 competition were: James Bellante, group vice president, visual merchandising, Macy's; Joe Feczko, senior vice president, innovation, integration & broadcast, Macy's; Kathleen Jordan, principal, Gensler; Laura H. Kirkpatrick, vice president, creative planning, visual merchandising, Macy's; Victor A. Lewis, vice president, visual merchandising, Macy's; Karen Meskey, senior vice president, store design and planning, Macy's; Christine Nakaoka, partner, nakaoka/roberts; Ken Nisch, chairman, JGA; Jim Sloss, vice president, design, Macy's; and Alec Zaballero, principal, TPG Architecture.