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Jose Ramirez, inspired by the painting style of Bob Ross, created the artwork selected in the 2018 annual student design competition for the ������Ƶ Holiday Card.

“Winter as One” depicts several animals working together and playing the snow.

“It portrays a diversity of woodland creatures, wearing ������Ƶ colored scarfs, as they spread some winter holiday cheer by building a snowman,” said Ramirez. “I wanted my image to have a realistic feel, yet, I played around and ended up with a fun playful look.”

Each year, one design is selected from work submitted by ������Ƶ students. Ramirez receives $500 from the ������Ƶ Foundation and 25 printed copies of the card that features his artwork. The card is emailed to ������Ƶ students, faculty, and staff, and mailed to community members and ������Ƶ Foundation members by ������Ƶ President & CEO Leigh B. Goodson, Ph.D.

Ramirez created the digital art using Adobe Photoshop as a student in ������Ƶ Assistant Professor Cristina Umezawa’s Adobe InDesign class.

“For this project I didn’t want to use something you'd typically see in holiday cards like reindeer and penguins. Instead, I chose to go with something more original and used a squirrel in the snow. Then to symbolize ������Ƶ’s diversity, I included other animals such as a cardinal and bunny,” says Ramirez.