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CURRENT Wins Awards!

1. 42nd Annual UCDA Design Competition (University and College Designers Association)
Curent received an Award of Excellence for the Mobile App Category. The judges of the 42nd Annual UCDA Design Competition evaluated more than 1,100 print and digital media entries this year, awarding 163 awards — 4 Gold Awards, 9 Silver Awards and 150 Awards of Excellence.

2. 42nd Creativity Print Awards – Creativity International Awards.
Current received a Silver Award for the print publication and Current 03 Print will be featured online, in the 42nd Design Annual (available in Spring 2013) & Creativity iPad app (currently under review with Apple.) The Silver award ranks us in the top 25% of the competition.

3. 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Current received a Semifinalist Certificate for both the Mobile Design category (app) and Print Communications category (print journal).

Current is a multi-platform design journal that exists to showcase creative, practice-based and applied research. It functions as a site for design researchers, design academics, students, professional designers, entrepreneurs, and the business community to reflect on contemporary design thinking—products and processes. Through a variety of forms and formats—interviews, case-studies, critical essays, reviews and photo documentation, we challenge researchers to represent their processes as iterative cycles of research and to skillfully navigate information-led/practice-led methodologies. Current is continually evolving exposition on the people and processes involved in design research. It is a platform for the cross-disciplinary, cross-sector professional communities of people with educational and professional interests in the currency of design thinking.

Current 03 2012 iPad App is up. You can download it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/current-03/id529301210?mt=8

The Current 2 iPad App, designed by Emily Carr communication Design Students Bree Galbraith and Max Olson, under the guidance of professor Celeste Martin, is also available for download on iTunes