Student designs winning poster for charity fashion show

PEPPERELL — Award-winning graphic design is always in fashion at Nashoba Valley Technical High School, and this spring was no different.

When Jodie Lasonde and Laurie Dillon were planning their seventh annual Charity Fashion show at Westford Regency, they once again turned to the students in Nashoba Tech’s Design & Visual Communications program to design the poster to promote the show.

The design created by Amon Leon, a sophomore from Pepperell, was selected from the submissions.

“After receiving several choices, we chose Amon Leon’s design. We thought his design was amazing,” Dillon said.

The fashion show, called “You Are Enough,” was held March 23 at the Westford Regency in conjunction with Boston Children’s Hospital to benefit suicide prevention.

Amon submitted a poster for last year’s show, but another student’s design was selected. This year, he decided to go in a different direction.

“We had done the same project last year, and I decided to look at the projects that other students did and review my own design from last year,” Amon said.. “I thought I’d kind of break loose from that and do something different. We’ve learned about different compositional ideas, so I went in a different direction.”

Amon created his winning design almost entirely in Photoshop.

The fashion show was covered by NBC News Boston, which interviewed Amon for its broadcast. Amon said during the interview that the fact that the event benefited suicide prevention was a big motivating factor.

“A lot of the class felt very motivated to do the best work that they could on this event because it’s for suicide prevention,” he said. “It’s an issue a lot of us care very deeply about and that I care very deeply about, so I really tried to put my very best into it.”

Dillon said she and Lasonde are thrilled to work with Nashoba Tech students in Nathan Meharg’s Design & Visual class because they do great work. She said the poster helped to promote the show in a big way.

“This show was sold out,” Dillon said. “The success of this show was more than just the funds raised. It was also about the journeys, stories and hope that it brought to us, our models and those in attendance to prevent suicide.”

-Nashoba Valley Technical High School