Appalachian State Portfolio Review Recap

To break the day up a bit, the students at App. State held a 1 hour design challege, Redesigning the Ping Pong Paddle. All the ideas were great, and the judges had a hard time picking just one, so hear are the top four.

The multi use paddle

Four the ping pong ball player who wants to get a game in before breakfast, the Paddle Skillet.

Congrats to Steven Valenziano

Most likely to run over cost & budget "managed to overly complicate a simple concept" paddle

The most, umm...well...interesting shaped paddle

Check out http://www.davidairey.com/is-your-logo-design-phallic/and you'll get the idea.

Congrats to Taylor Leaf

Consumer ready, "Ergo" paddle

And the $125 (thanks to Monte @ Monte Design for the prize money) prize for the most consumer ready ergo paddle goes to Chris Gill from Virgina Tech.

Congrats Chris.