As I process the work for each year’s Student Design Show, I am always pleased at the QUALITY of the submissions. I am also quietly observant of the trends in the submissions each year.
In the early 2000’s (when the analytics were not as easily processed) there was a preponderance of Layout and Illustration student work.
In the 2010’s, we saw a tremendous increase in the amount of photography work, possibly correlating with the increased availability of really good consumer digital equipment.
Once again, there is a slight change in the distribution of the categories of work submitted. Future analysis will show us potential reasons for the trends.
A few facts about this year’s show:
About 170 pieces were submitted
Qualifying student work was to have been created between Spring of 2021 (post show) through April 20, 2022.
We had more Alumni Judges this year in the rank of our professional Jury.
This year’s categorical submissions (from MOST submissions per category, to the least per category) were:
LAYOUT (~21.1%)
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION (~16.3%)
LOGOS and IDENTITY (~10.8%)
PHOTOGRAPHY WITH POST TO ENHANCE (~9.6%)
PACKAGING and 3D (~7.8%)
PHOTOGRAPHY (Straight Out Of The Camera) (~7.2%)
TRADITIONAL MEDIA (~6.6%)
COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGNS (~ 5.4%)
PHOTO MANIPULATION, MULTIMEDIA, and POSTERS combined accounted for approximately 15%
Please enjoy the work of Gateway Technical College’sGraphic Communications Program Students across our three-county district! 2021 and 2022 have been tough years, but the students and faculty have persevered through it all to bring you this year’s edition of the VIRTUAL ONLINE SHOW on this website!
Click on the 2022 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW menu item above to navigate through this year’s student submissions.
The 2022 Gateway Technical College District Student Design ShowSubmissions can be viewed via this website
The YOUTUBE LIVE™ awards presentation was live on MAY 5 (CINCO de MAYO) at 6:00pm. The archival recording of it for viewing after the event will be available on GTC’s YOUTUBE channel, swell as below in the embedded YOUTUBE video.
Once again, we get an advanced “SNEAK PEEK” of the 2022 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW AWARDS. Students whose work has been selected as Best in Show and Honorable Mention for each category in the 2022 Design Show will received these awards,
A VERY SPECIAL THANKS goes out Mr. John Mizer for his professional expertise and hard work in fabricating this year’s awards in collaboration with the designer of the 2022 show’s identity, Ms. Melody Warner.
Thanks also to Mr. John Zehren and his support crew out at the Gateway Technical College / S.C. Johnson iMET Center’s FAB LAB.
SPECIAL THANKS also to our Divisional Administrative team: Mrs. Sherry Bubel for obtaining and ordering the materials, and Dr. Tracey Isensee for purchasing.
the 2022 Student Design Show Awards for Best-in-Show, and Honorable Mention
AWARD RECIPIENTS should receive their awards by the Fall Semester. We will mail awards to distance students, and get them to students in the classroom as we are able to. If any students have not received their 2022 SDS awards by the end of September in Fall 2022 semester, please contact your instructor.
This is a link to the FULL PDF DOCUMENT [downloadable as well as embedded] containing the submission rules for students who wish to submit work for the 2022 Student Design Show:
LINK to the ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION FORM for SDS 2022 Student Work Submission
We are calling for submissions to the 2022 Edition of the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW. Students must utilize their GTC email addresses to digitally submit work for the 2022 Student Design Show. The form will filter non GTC email addresses.
Students in the ADVANCED CLASSES submitted their proposals for the 2022 edition ofGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE’SDISTRICT-WIDE STUDENT DESIGN SHOW. Members of GTC Administration team have helped us by selecting the direction we went with for this year’s show identity.
The DESIGN SELECTED for this year’s design show (the item that received the most ordinal vote points) is:
The 2022 Gateway Technical College District-wide STUDENT DESIGN SHOW IDENTITY WINNER: MELODY WARNER
Melody Warner’s Show Identity Design harvests iconography and graphic design from the action comic books. It subtly infers taking action, and the heroics we are all capable of. Congratulations to Melody!
YOUTUBE™ promotional Animation for Melody’s Design
The Second Place Selection
(the item that received the next most points):
The 2022 Gateway Technical College District-wide STUDENT DESIGN SHOW IDENTITY RUNNER-UP: RACHYL BURZINSKI
The Third Place Selection
(the item that received the third most points) is:
The 2022 Gateway Technical College District-wide STUDENT DESIGN SHOW IDENTITY HONORABLE MENTION: SHAWN DAVIS
Congratulations to Melody, Rachyl, and Shawn for having their work win, place, and show for our 2022 Student Design Show Identity!
The gallery below contains additional student submissions for the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW. Thanks to all the students who submitted items for consideration in the ADVANCED classes!
Computer Illustration and Drawing students participated in the Gateway Technical College Student Handbook Project, coordinated by instructor Laura Laznicka, and Gateway Marketing Department Coordinator Mary Jo Jiter.
Gateway Technical College’s branding standards were established, strategies outlined and the design work began. Students executed the design process; research, creative brief, concept layout sketches, digital rough layouts to the final comprehensive.
After, peer collaboration and revisions the final layout designs were ready to be submitted to the Gateway Marketing Department.
We congratulate all the students who participated in the Student Handbook Project and we are proud to announce that Jasmine Wagner’s design will be used for the upcoming 2022–2023 Student Handbook.
The 2022 – 2023 handbook designed by Jasmine Wagner
GTC STUDENT HANDBOOK DESIGNS click on any thumbnail to open a larger-sized image in a new browser tab.
We all know how the GTC Student Design Show has pivoted its delivery and adjusted its presence in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The previously catered gala-style events and live celebrations at facilities throughout the district had to be shifted mere weeks before they were scheduled to occur in 2020. We went from a harried, yet greatly successful Facebook Live delivery with our 2020 District-Wide Student Design Show, to an even more successful YOUTUBE™ Live event the next year!
But in addition to events like the SDS on a departmental scale, on a broader institutional scale, all instructors had to innovate and integrate new ideas…once again ‘pivoting’ out of sheer necessity… and relying on innovation and dedication to continue to provide learning activities to our students.
In the FALL of 2021, we continued offering O-Sync sections ensure quality delivery and safety. These sections can sometimes be challenging, with some students in the classroom socially distanced (and wearing masks), combined with others ZOOM conferencing in from a distance.
A popular communal collaboration exercise had to adapt to these changes as well, and wound up adding a new flair to the activity. The “color quilt” was a metaphorical quilt activity where a randomly generated color swatch [ #ED243E] was selected for an entire class section in Peter Pham’s DesignConcepts class. Each member of the class (a class that teaches the fundamentals of color, typography, design composition, and computer basics as they pertain to design) had to then design an eight by eight inch section for the quilt around an individually assigned color scheme utilizing the assigned color swatch.
In previous incarnations, the students would physically assemble in a space and put their sections of the quilt together into a whole that both worked as a whole, while still allowing some degree of individuality based around a basic set of rules.
Assembly day saw students in prior years gathering in a common space with masking tape loops in hand. The “virtual quilt” of 2021 saw students crafting digital files of their pieces to be assembled into a mockup that could ‘hang’ virtually in a variety of environments. Jokingly some mentioned “The Great Wall of China.” Student off-site as well as on-location waited to see the final product.
Without further ado… the FA2021 virtual color quilt to those students who participated.
Members of the 204-100-2RHA/2RYA O-Sync section that participated in this activity were (L to R, top to bottom): C. Brunkle [Split complementary] , J. Tisch [Analagous] , A. Lindsey [Clash], V. Bass [Analagous] , C. Arrendodo [Clash], G. Lee [Clash], J. Rodriguez [Triadic-Primary or Tertiary], (placeholder), L. Najera [Split Complementary], R. Gomez [analagous], K. Kosterman [Triadic- Primary or Tertiary], G. Gauthier [Split Complement], S. Hansen [Monochromatic ], J. Haubrich [ Triadic], S. Campbell [Complementary].
NISOD, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
NISOD provides budget-friendly, high-quality, and faculty-focused programs and resources for community and technical colleges that want to make the most of their professional development dollars. For over 40 years, NISOD has aligned a wide array of benefits with the needs of our members, which explains why the American Association of Community Colleges named NISOD, “The country’s leading provider of professional development for community college faculty, staff, and administrators.”
NISOD invited students at NISOD-member colleges, Including Gateway Technical College, to participate in the Student Graphic Design Contest and design the official Conference Program for NISOD’s 2023 International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, the definitive gathering of community and technical college faculty, administrators, and staff seeking best and promising practices designed to improve student achievement.
The winning artwork will serve as the front cover of the 2023 International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence conference program.
In the fall of 2021, students enrolled in Design Concepts, led by Instructor, Laura Laznicka and Denise Schneider, Employee Learning Manager participated in NISOD’s Graphic Design Contest. Students conducted research and developed a creative brief to start the project. Objectives were established, strategies outlined and the creative work began. After, several stages of revisions and refinements the projects were ready to be submitted to represent Gateway Technical College.
NISOD received many excellent submissions for this year’s contest. All entries were very inspiring, which made selecting only one winner extremely challenging.
Please, view the NISOD graphic design contest submissions.
We congratulate all the students who participated in the NISOD’s student graphic design contest and are proud that these students represented Gateway:
Several students from the Graphic Design Department have participated and contributed to this year’s GTC RED HAWK REVIEW. Click on thew link below to see some of the literary and visual contributions by GTC students!
Please enjoy the work of Gateway Technical College’s Graphic Communications Program students! Click on the 2021 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW menu item above to navigate through this year’s student submissions.
