Standout senior LCTI graphic arts lab student Josh Lounsberry has achieved numerous art awards in the past few years. He has various skills including, but not limited to, illustration and watercolor painting, PhotoShop, InDesign, photography, and typefaces.

“I’ve always done art – I kind of drew, kind of did that kind of stuff,” Lounsberry said.

In the fall of 2013, Lounsberry won a Skills USA competition for designing t-shirts. The theme of the designing competition was “Go for Gold.” Josh drew three images: a yacht boat, sunglasses, and a sports car. He colored the images orange and yellow for a flashy effect.

In the winter of 2014, Lounsberry received a Scholastic Gold Key award and was honored at an regional art show at Miller Symphony Hall, across from the Allentown Art Museum. His piece was self-portrait that he had drawn for an illustrating class at LCTI.

“Josh is a talented artist who has a penchant for traditional graphic design mixed with contemporary style,” LCTI graphics design teacher Mr. Patrick Maley said. “Josh mixes hand drawn images, usually in pencil or pen and ink, and incorporates the images digitally using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign. Photography and digital photo manipulation is another skill that Josh is exploring for use in his designs.”

Last summer, the DaVinci Center, an art museum in Allentown near Cedar Crest College, hosted a contest for the billboard of Grossology exhibit. Josh won the contest and his drawing became the billboard for the exhibit.

“I felt really happy.” Lounsberry said. “It was nice and exciting.”

Most recently in the fall of 2014, Lounsberry won a Skills USA competition at LCTI in Graphic Design and advanced to the regional level at Agraplex in Allentown. Competitors received a fake scenario and had to create a design based off of it. Lounsberry’s was a fake car show. He designed three things: a logo, a newspaper ad and a poster.

In addition to his previous awards, Lounsberry also won a Lehigh Art Alliance Award for Excellence in Visual Arts in 2014 and earned Honorable Mention in an Arts Quest Banana Factory in the Young Artists’ Exhibit.

Mr. Maley is proud of  his student’s artistic accomplishments.

“I am excited for Josh and his recent accolades in Graphic Design and know that he will be successful in his future artistic endeavors.”