Fort Wayne Community Schools
Fort Wayne Community Schools unveiled new graphics designed by students at Anthis Career Center for the district’s Nutrition Services trucks.
The students, Katelyn Clark and Jesus Leon, developed the designs as part of the graphics design program at Anthis Career Center. Anthis provides career programs to nearly 1,000 students from schools throughout Allen and Whitley counties.
Students in the graphic design course earn certification in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Once students become proficient with the software, they have the opportunity to work on real-world projects with clients, such as FWCS Nutrition Services.
“Our client work involves many different types of projects,” Instructor Karen Gillie said. “Students have created logos, business card and letter head designs, newsletters, T-shirt artwork and much more. Students in this course leave the program with marketable skills and college credit.”
When Nutrition Services Director Candice Hagar was looking for a new design for graphics on the truck during the 2013-14 school year, Anthis students provided several options. She picked the designs by Katelyn, now a senior at Northrop, and Jesus, now a senior at Wayne, because they reflected the new look she envisioned for the trucks.
“I wanted something that would depict a fresh, healthy image for the Nutrition Services Department, something that would make anyone looking at our delivery truck going to and from schools all over town say, ‘They serve fresh, healthy foods at Fort Wayne Community Schools,’” Hagar said.
One truck already has the new look with the remainder of the fleet set to get the new graphics soon.