Graduate Program in Design and Graphic Design adjunct professor Jeremy Mende has been issued a Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize in the American Academy in Rome's 2010–11 Rome Prize Competition.

Selected in the Design category for his Anxious Futurism: A Visual Poetics of Our Schizophrenic Lean Into Tomorrow project, Mende is one of 33 fellowship recipients this year will receive a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for up to two years in Rome. Recipients are welcomed by the academy in September.

"We in the Graduate Program in Design are proud of Jeremy's accomplishment. The Rome Prize underlines the extraordinary quality of CCA's professional Design faculty," praised Design Director Brenda Laurel.

Forty-eight academy invitees, all leading artists and scholars in the fellowship categories, comprised nine peer juries that reviewed this year's applicants in the 114th annual open national competition.

The Rome Prize is awarded to approximately 30 individuals each year who are working in ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early modern, or modern Italian studies, and architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, literature, musical composition, or visual art.

Mende is the principal of the San Francisco-based visual communications firm Mende Design, a multidisciplinary design group that specializes in exploring the relationship between the surface of communication and the underlying semiotic structures that generate it. He has received several national design awards from the AIGA, the Type Director's Club, the Art Director's Club, and Communication Arts, Print, and HOW magazines and has had work featured in several international design books, exhibitions, and publications. He currently has work in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Read more about Mende's finished project.

About the American Academy in Rome
Established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a leading center for independent studies and advanced research in the arts and humanities. Situated on the Janiculum, the highest hill within the walls of Rome, the Academy today remains a private institution supported by gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations, and the memberships of colleges, universities, and arts and cultural organizations as well as by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United States Department of Education. Visit the website to learn more.