education

The Brian Brown Scholarship

The Brian Brown Scholarship is awarded annually by the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington to a student or students who exhibit a high level of quality in their work.

Any full-time freshman, sophomore, or junior in an accredited Visual Communications program (Graphic Design, Illustration, or Photography) is eligible. You must also enter the Real Show. As the Brian Brown Scholarship award is applied against your undergraduate tuition fees, graduating seniors are not eligible. To apply, simply participate in the Real Show. The ADCMW Education Committee will review the entries and request a portfolio of work from those students who deserve further consideration. The final decision on the scholarship winner or winners will be made on the basis of the portfolio review.

Funding for the Brian Brown Scholarships awarded in 2003, 2004 and 2005 has been generously provided by a grant from:

Become a Scholarship Sponsor
We are looking for a sponsor to endow the Brian Brown Scholarship Award, which is given to promising area graphic design students based on the quality of their portfolios. We are also asking creatives to name the scholarship fund in your wills—to support quality graphic design for posterity. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring, please contact our Education Committee.

About Brian Brown
Brian Brown was the first art director of Kiplinger's Changing Times, now called Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. Brian started his job there in 1947, and continued as Art Director until his death from cancer in 1958 at the age of 47. He was born in North Waterford, Maine, and served in the US Merchant Marine. During WWII, he did camouflage work on military installations.

Prior to joining Kiplinger's, Brian had a freelance art Studio. He was married to Camellia Heiderhoff, and they lived in Alexandria, Virginia. His interests ranged from creating ship models, binding books, and carpentry, to an impressive knowledge of literature and history—a true Renaissance Man.

During those years, the club was very small and close knit, and everyone knew everyone else. After his death, the club decided to start the Brian Brown Scholarship Fund in memory of their dearly-missed friend as well as to honor a founding member of the club. Although Brian Brown had no children, the scholarship is his legacy.

The purpose of the Fund is to award financial aid to college students through our Real Show.