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I’m Laura Howard,
I’m from Louisville, KY and I’m a graphic design major.
Over the Christmas break Leslie had sent out an email
to everybody sort of letting us know there was a competition
and I just decided, eh, it’s a good prize you know I’ll see what I can do with it
so I just kind of worked on it over the break and then submitted
a couple of designs and just went from there.
The company is Cereplast and they make bioplastics
which are plastics made out of plant sources, corn, soy, potatoes,
anything really to get away from petroleum based plastics.
They put on the competition to find a symbol to represent bioplastics.
There are 1500 design entries and
the public vote got it down to the 200 and there were 2.8 million votes
to get it there and from there 10 or 11 judges took over, design professionals,
from different fields of designs and they got it down to the top 3.
So I was the only student, which felt good,
it was kind of a nice validation to the program
and myself and from there I just won.