2007 recipients

Jade Chang

The Writing Award—open to writers, critics, scholars, historians, journalists and designers, in the amount of $5,000—was awarded to Jade Chang for her three submissions:

• “Learning to Love the Mini-mall” (24 KB)

• “Made in Hollywood” (28 KB)

• “Behind the Glass Curtain” (28 KB)

Chang is the West Coast editor of Metropolis magazine. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and the BBC, and was a recipient of the Sundance Arts Writing Fellowship. She graduated from Cornell University with majors in English and government. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is also working on a novel.

Erica Nooney

The Education Award—open to undergraduate or graduate students whose use of writing, in the interest of making visual work or scholarship or cultural observation, demonstrates extraordinary originality and promise, in the amount of $1,000—was awarded to Erica Nooney for her submission:

• “The Silence of the Swastika: Uncovering Absence and De-mythologizing Modernism in Contemporary Graphic Design Discourse” (252 KB)

Nooney has an MA in English, with a concentration in cultural studies, from Kansas State University and a BFA in visual communication design from the University of Dayton. She is beginning her PhD in cultural studies this fall as a fellow at SUNY Stony Brook. Her research interests include graphic design history, education and professional construction, as well as queer theory, film theory, pop culture studies and new media.