First-year design student wins a new logo competition for MacEwan’s Indigenous Students Club
Last term, MacEwan’s Indigenous Students Club (MISC) held a student competition for their new logo. The competition was open from October to the end of November. The winner, Sierra Shirt, is in her first year of Design at MacEwan. She answered a few of our questions through an email to the Griff. When she first heard about the competition on Facebook, Shirt says, “I thought that it would be fun to enter and see how my skills align with my love for Indigenous art and the program that I decided to dedicate years to completing.” So, she got to work on Adobe Illustrator and when she found out she had won the competition (and a prize of an iPad), she says, “I felt like I chose the right path for my future.” Shirt is...
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