Recently, students from the Department of Design at DSU have swept the awards at outdoor advertising contests held in Busan and Ulsan, including receiving Grand Prizes and Gold Prizes.

All the award-winning works were completed through the Conceptual Planning class taught by Professor Lee Jin-ho, part of a graphic design study track supported by the DSU LINC+ Project.

Both competitions were the fruits of various efforts to raise the exposure of outdoor advertising culture through the development of creative and beautiful signboard designs.

The 2019 Busan Sign Expo

The 2019 Busan Sign Expo received a total of 4125 entries in the three categories of creative model advertisements, creative design advertisements, and "pretty neighborhood signs."

Students from the DSU Department swept the Grand Prize, Silver, Bronze, Encouragement, and Special Prizes.

The winning students were Lee Hae- won (Grand Prize); Choi Soo-in, (Silver Prize); Jo Yae-eun (Bronze Prize); Choi Yeon-woo, Park Seo-ah, and Lee Eun-bi (Encouragement Prize); and Kim Jin-ha and Song Ah-hyeon (Special Prize).

The awards ceremony was held on September 24 at Busan City Hall, and award-winning works were exhibited in the Busan City Hall Display Lobby until September 27.

Lee Hae-won's winning work, which received the grand prize in the creative design advertisement category, was entitled "Yolo Studio."

Meanwhile, Choi Soo-in's winning work, "Rice Nice," was inspired by the fact that rice consumption is gradually decreasing with the change in the consumption of meals.

Finally, Jo Yae-eun won the Bronze Award for her "A Natural Meal" salad store concept.

The 2019 Ulsan Metropolitan Outdoor Advertising Contest At the 2019 Ulsan Metropolitan Outdoor Advertising Contest, the winners from DSU included: Kim Chae-won, (Gold Prize); Lee Seung-hee, Song A-hyeon, Han Ju-yeon, and Choi Yeon-woo (Bronze Prize); Woo Ji-hee, Kim Yae-jin, Choi Hae-ree, Jeon Ha-gyeong, Park Seo-ah, and Lee Eun-bi (Encouragement Prize); and An Hyeon-jin and Park Seong-won (Entry Prize).

The awards ceremony was held on September 24 at Ulsan City Hall, with winning works displayed in the lobby of the Ulsan City Hall Main Building from September 24 to 26.

They will again be exhibited at the 2019 Korea Outdoor Advertising Awards held in November.

The competition, open to the general public as well as students, was divided into three categories: creative advertising (model), pre-installed advertising, and creative advertising (design).

Kim Chae-won's Grand Prize work entitled "'Communication between Joseon and Modernity, Joseon Makgeolli", for which he also received a cash prize of two million won from the Ulsan City Metropolitan Government, was in the field of creative advertisements (design).