Charles Apple

Huntsville Times design director Paul Wallen announced today:

Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know that you’ll be seeing one more new face on the desk very soon.

I’m very pleased that Bethany Bickley will be joining us as a Design/Copy Editing Intern.

Bethany, who just graduated over the weekend with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from Ohio University, majored in informational graphics and publication design, with a specialization in magazine journalism.

In the recent Michigan State University Society for News Design student contest, Bethany won first place in the Feature Page Newspaper category and second  in Art & Illustration. Bethany was also Art Director of the first and second issues of Thread Magazine, Ohio University’s student-run online publication about fashion in Athens, Ohio.

Bethany, who says she enjoys ceramics and creating “all sorts of artwork,” is in the process of transitioning to Huntsville and hopes to start work at the Times one week from today, on June 21.

At Ohio, of course, Bethany studied under professors Julie Elman and Terence Oliver. A few samples of her work:

Find more on her personal portfolio page.

Bethany is the second design intern Huntsville hired this summer. The first — Kurt Cunningham, who graduated last month from the University of Iowa — started work May 24.

I don’t know if they ever got the live streaming working but either way, here is the presentation Michigan State’s Karl Gude gave at TEDx Lansing, one week ago today.

Enjoy…

Bridget O’Donnell — a 2009 graduate of the University of Michigan who moved to China last year to teach English — has signed on as a designer at the China Daily in Beijing.

At the China Daily, she’ll be working with Bill Gaspard, who moved to the same paper last winter, and creative director Jonah Kessel. The 200,000-circulation daily redesigned two months ago.

Bridget has been in Beijing nearly three weeks. Among the things she’s tweeted since her arrival:

• “In typical China fashion, my flight was delayed 2 hours. But I’m here in Beijing! My apartment is a huge step up from my dorm in Shenzhen.”
• “So my apartment in the China Daily “compound” has a bedroom, two living rooms and two balconies. I’m just sayin’ (I need visitors).”
• I had to use a taxi today during non-rush hour and it was still more crowded than any normal U.S. freeway during rush hour. Even non-rush hour is rush hour in Beijing.
• I found PopTarts today. That seals it: Beijing is officially 10 million times greater than Shenzhen.
• Sixteen items they only sell at Chinese Walmarts. I have personally seen all of these on sale there except for #16.

Here is Bridget with her new Chinese media credentials:

During her college years, Bridget interned at AutoWeek, with Bill Ostendorf’s Creative Circle Consulting in Providence, R.I., and in the features design department of the New York Times (2008). Her degree is in political science and communication studies.

She moved to Shenzhen, China, last summer and taught under the guidance of the Center for Learning and Teaching Chinese. In addition to teaching English, she also received tutoring in Mandarin. Read about that move here.

A few samples of Bridget’s design work:

Find Bridget’s blog and portfolio site here.