West Hall High School sophomore Andres Herrera learned Friday that his designer logo was selected by Eternal Water, to be used internationally on all company communications.
Herrera competed against classmates from two classes of Intro to Graphics and Design taught by Diana Lunt at West Hall. The announcement came at a special presentation held at the school with 17-year-old company co-founder, Max DeCook, a recent Gwinnett County high school graduate who flew in from Ghana, where the water producing factory is being built.
Eternal Water approached Lunt, also a freelance graphic artist, to design the new company’s logo. With a full schedule, Lunt thought the opportunity would provide a great, real-life business experience for her 40 students and pitched the idea to DeCook and his co-founder Stephen Agoagye who both agreed.
They met with her classes Feb. 13, with Lunt briefing the students about client meetings and questions to ask to better educate them on what the company needed.
Lunt hopes the real business world opportunity has helped inspire her students and planted a seed of understanding as to their potential to accomplish great things in the world. However, the celebration probably meant the most for DeCook as another milestone in what he has been able to accomplish within six short months of deciding to turn his life around, following his more than two-year ordeal of leading a life of self-destruction and drug addiction that at one point, he thought about ending.
