One of the purposes of Avant-Garde is to bring together creative thinkers on campus... to gather the students who could have easily gone to SCAD, Parsons, or St.Martins in London but instead chose to become a yellow jackets and one helluva engineer :) But with the decision to become a yellow jacket usually comes a harder road to expressing ones creativity and truly following ones passion. And some, though they want to be actors or artist or designers, often opt to utilize the degree they worked hard for and become engineers or consultants or technical specialist of sorts.
Avant-Garde offers to counteract that- we want to expose ourselves to things relevant to our studies and major as well as things that we feel very passionate about. And we hope to one day create a huge network (which we are currently building) of Georgia Tech Alumni that chose creative paths, alternative paths... and we aren't just talking about architects.
This spring/summer Georgia Tech Alumni and Tech Topics highlighted alumni that have made it in the industry and those that are climbing the ladder to success.
1. Jessica Luza (STaC 07)
2. Clint Zeagler (ID 04)
3. Vern Yip (MS Mgt 94, M Arch 95)
Jessica Luza does the The Hills Fashion Wrap-Up on MTV. She moved to LA two days after she graduated and, besides doing The Hills, works part-time with a graphics playback company that does computer graphics for television shows like CSI, Dexter and Lost. Oh and she can be found doing plays, tv shows, and made for tv movies in her other spare time. She was in "What Goes Around: a film shot in Jackson, GA during her senior tear at Tech (it was released in April).
Clint Zeagler launched his clothing line Pecan Pie Couture in 2006, and has been twice voted Best Local Designer by the readers of Atlanta's Creative Loafing newspaper, and in 2007 he was named one of The Atlantan magazine's Men of Style. His journey? Well after graduating from Tech in 04 he studied fashion design in Italy's fashion capital, Milan, and received a master's in fashion design from Domus Academy. Clint even returned to Tech in spring 2007 to teach a course on wearable designs in the College of Architecture's industrial design program.
Vern Yip... this guy needs no bio, but we'll give it anyway. He has a bachelor of arts degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from The University of Virginia (UVA), then he attended The Georgia Institute of Technology (our beloved Tech) and received a MBA and a Master or Architecture degree.... clearly the man is smart.
We all know him most notably from TLC's Trading Spaces, but it's also hard to miss him NBC's Home Intervention and HGTV's "Deserving Design". He runs his own design company in Atlanta, Vern Yip Designs and vernyip.com. He's one a ton of awards and has been seen in many publications.
Avant-Garde offers to counteract that- we want to expose ourselves to things relevant to our studies and major as well as things that we feel very passionate about. And we hope to one day create a huge network (which we are currently building) of Georgia Tech Alumni that chose creative paths, alternative paths... and we aren't just talking about architects.
This spring/summer Georgia Tech Alumni and Tech Topics highlighted alumni that have made it in the industry and those that are climbing the ladder to success.
1. Jessica Luza (STaC 07)
2. Clint Zeagler (ID 04)
3. Vern Yip (MS Mgt 94, M Arch 95)
Jessica Luza does the The Hills Fashion Wrap-Up on MTV. She moved to LA two days after she graduated and, besides doing The Hills, works part-time with a graphics playback company that does computer graphics for television shows like CSI, Dexter and Lost. Oh and she can be found doing plays, tv shows, and made for tv movies in her other spare time. She was in "What Goes Around: a film shot in Jackson, GA during her senior tear at Tech (it was released in April).
Clint Zeagler launched his clothing line Pecan Pie Couture in 2006, and has been twice voted Best Local Designer by the readers of Atlanta's Creative Loafing newspaper, and in 2007 he was named one of The Atlantan magazine's Men of Style. His journey? Well after graduating from Tech in 04 he studied fashion design in Italy's fashion capital, Milan, and received a master's in fashion design from Domus Academy. Clint even returned to Tech in spring 2007 to teach a course on wearable designs in the College of Architecture's industrial design program.
Vern Yip... this guy needs no bio, but we'll give it anyway. He has a bachelor of arts degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from The University of Virginia (UVA), then he attended The Georgia Institute of Technology (our beloved Tech) and received a MBA and a Master or Architecture degree.... clearly the man is smart.
We all know him most notably from TLC's Trading Spaces, but it's also hard to miss him NBC's Home Intervention and HGTV's "Deserving Design". He runs his own design company in Atlanta, Vern Yip Designs and vernyip.com. He's one a ton of awards and has been seen in many publications.
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