A little help from my friends

During the past five years, we have had the ability to design our publications with the support of students in the Penn State Art 475 class. The synergies are apparent: we receive fresh design ideas and the students receive "real world" experience. Each semester we work with Professor Lanny Sommese and his students in designing the main covers of the ITS Academic Computing Newsletter (http://css.its.psu.edu/news/nlsp07/) and the "Your Guide to ITS @ Penn State" (http://css.its.psu.edu/internet/). This poster session would describe in depth the project of redesigning the "Your Guide to ITS @ Penn State". During the spring semester 2007, Art 475 students redesigned this publication. In addition to a graphical redesign, this year's class reviewed the content of the publication as well, emphasizing what is relevant to them. What follows in this paper is a discussion of the amount of student involvement, the supervision time, the updates and changes, and the fun involved in working with Art students.