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U of M's Wall of Discovery earns international design award~ Society for Environmental Graphic Design selected the wall from 340 entries world wide ~
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 6/18/2007 ) -- The University of Minnesota's Wall of Discovery won an Honor Award from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), an international non-profit educational foundation, in the highly competitive SEGD Design Awards Program. The six Honor Award winners were selected from 340 international entries. The Wall of Discovery on the Scholars Walk at the University of Minnesota is designed to celebrate the discoveries, inventions and creations of alumni and faculty that have brought significant changes to the world. Many months of research yielded a wealth of original documents from 90 intellectual pioneers which are incorporated into a giant blackboard covering 260 feet of the north wall on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building on the Twin Cities campus. Twenty edge-lit glass panels, etched and carved with abstract images, appear to float in front of the blackboard allowing the viewer to reflect on the work of future scholars that may yield tomorrow's discoveries. "To our knowledge, there isn't any other campus that has as impressive a tribute to the contributions of faculty, staff, students and alumni as we have here in our four-block-long Scholars Walk with the central feature being the Wall of Discovery," said Tom LaSalle, University Gateway Corporation chair and president-elect of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA). The Gateway Corporation, which includes the UMAA, University of Minnesota Foundation and University of Minnesota Medical Foundation, funded the Wall of Discovery. "This partnership has resulted in $60 million in improvements on campus in the past 10 years, including the McNamara Alumni Center, Heritage Gallery, Alumni Wall of Honor, Regents Plaza, Scholars Walk and Wall of Discovery. How appropriate that these three organizations are helping preserve the university's history, legend and lore," said LaSalle. The idea and concept for the Wall of Discovery was created by Gary Fishbeck of HGA Architects, the graphic design and research was completed by Drew Sternal of L.A. Ink, a visual communications and design firm in the Twin Cities, and the wall was constructed by Mortenson Construction and Nordquist Sign Company. Other 2007 SEGD Honor Award winners were the Thailand Creative & Design Center, Bangkok, Thailand; National World War I Museum, Kansas City; Arizona Cardinals Stadium, Glendale, Arizona; Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles; Alesari, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. ---------- |
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