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“Going places.” No matter which path we are traveling or road we are taking, it’s the culmination of work and play in and outside of the classroom that keeps us moving forward. With every step we take to further our education and begin our careers, we open up hundreds of doors that lead in a thousand directions. But it’s not about where we’ve been. It’s about the countless hours plopped in front of a brightly-lit computer screen trying to decide between cyan and cerulean for our headers. It’s about the will to get out of bed every morning to face the challenges of work in and out of our classrooms. It’s about then endless chase for perfection in your work, even if you haven’t slept in 36 hours and your blood:coffee ratio is 1:1.

What matters? We’re going places, and we won’t be stopped.

The Michigan State University Design Contest for College Students began in 2000 as a way for students to enter work done not only for a campus publication, but also projects done for a class, a job or an internship.

There are a number of beginning student designers who have demonstrated incredible talent, but they do so in the classroom or at a part-time job. In much the same way, some of the most talented visual journalists—for a variety of reasons—do not work at their campus newspaper. These students are usually ineligible for other college design competitions, where contest rules often limit entries to work done for a student newspaper or magazine. The MSU Design Contest was established to give those other students a voice in a national competition.

Congrats to the winners, and thank you to all who entered!