The 2020 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW UPDATE
Good Morning Students, and Friends of the GTC Annual Student Design Show:
I hope you are all doing well.
As you know, we are living historically unique time. March 12, the GTC Staff and faculty were informed about the college’s proactive precautionary steps. One of the precautions is that Gateway Events in the near future have been canceled for public safety in the light of the “Coronavirus” (COVID-19) outbreak. This prudent move was made with public health and safety foremost in everyone’s mind..
Fortunately, we in graphics were digitally equipped to pivot our Student Design Show from a community-wide event into an online show (accessible too even more of the public). So the show will go on — but in an online format.
So far we, your graphics instructors, have determined:
- We can create and deploy a custom website featuring all of your work
- We can have industry judges review your entries and select the best of show and honorable mention winners
- We can send the awards to our jury-selected winners
- We can feature our “soon-to-be graduates” with a feature page and links to your individual Behance accounts and websites.
We are determined to showcase your work and celebrate our graduating class, we just need to pivot and do it a little differently this year.
This all unfolded very quickly (Thursday evening [3/12] into Friday Morning), and we will continue to communicate more specific information as soon as it becomes available to us.
In the meantime, you may be asking yourself,
“What should I be doing?
- Classes (ALL CLASSES) will be shifted from classroom meetings on-campus, to online delivery of content continued online after that.
- Wash your hands frequently, and avoid touching your face. You may want to carry individual hand sanitizer if you have it, and wash your hands.
- Wipe down anything communally handled before and after you use it.
- Organize your work for the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW digitally and please get it submitted on-time meeting the specifications outlined.
- Soon-to-be graduates, please be diligent in getting your Behance accounts polished and completed. They will be used to feature you to the industry and the public.
The Design Show submission instructions are on site until March 29th.
Please disregard the information regarding traditional printing and mounting for the iMET center, instead, focus on preparing internet-ready graphics.
Please refer to your email and the college website for college-wide information regarding the institution’s response to the COVID-19 situation. Also, please be mindful that information is changing regularly, so it is recommended that you check the site regularly.
Thank you for your flexibility and understanding while we navigate this uncharted territory.
Sincerely,
Michelle, Peter, John, Laura, Sue, and Kevin
(the Graphic Communications Crew)