Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
Department Site for the Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
A recent discussion among many students in the program highlighted something brought to light by Program Advisors in previous meetings: the importance of a solid TYPOGRAPHY foundation.
Some sites that have been shared to increase your awareness and skill in utilizing fonts for a communicative message (branding and general visually communicative applications) are here for friends of the program:
https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-pairing-fonts–webdesign-5706
Gateway’s Graphic Comm department wants to wish you all a great summer,
and look forward to seeing new and returning students in the 2019 Fall semester.
Prospective new students, feel free to visit us at one of the summer OPEN HOUSE fairs from 4:00 – 7:00pm:
7/16/2019 KENOSHA CAMPUS
7/17/2019 RACINE CAMPUS
7/18/2019 ELKHORN CAMPUS
Enjoy these images from the 2019 SDS. Please contact us with any additional images you’d like to share.
Some students participated in the creation of Movie Posters for a local film being produced in and around the Racine Area, with an “all-Racine cast,” in the Spring 2019 semester.
The film is an Indie ‘musical-comedy-horror’ produced and directed by former Racine resident “Loganzo Poelmanzo,” and loosely inspired by the 1976 murder of an area teen.
A heartfelt thanks goes to all of the Judges for this years Design show!
We know the task isn’t easy, and we appreciate your judgement!
Student Design Show Branding Campaign
1. Natasha VanSwol
2. Daisy Ramirez
COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN
1. Tyler Zierk — Design Show Campaign
2. Lucinda Lee — Blockhead Brewing
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
1. Rachel Lindemann – Digital Shadow
2. Anayeli Esquivel – Sunflower
LAYOUT
1. Chris Palomares – Escuter
2. Tyler Zierk – Modern Millennial Magazine
LOGO / IDENTITY-PACKAGES
1. Casey Gister – Strange Brew Bottle Design
2. Nikkie Witbrod – Blockhead Brewing (TIE)
2. Craig Law Office — Joeseph Schroeder (TIE)
MULTIMEDIA
1. David Coletti – Life is Big
2. Depression Information — Lucas Delgado
PACKAGING
1. Tyler-Zierk — Grandmas-Tea
2. MelissaKieffer — Bigelow Redesign – Spring Leaf Tea
PHOTOGRAPHY (s.o.o.c.)
1. Chad Metzger – Simmer
2. Anayeli Esquivel – Photoshoot
PHOTOGRAPHY (minimal post, note for illusion or effect)
1. Sam Savage – Pointe and Flow Detail
2. Sam Savage – Prime Phonic
PHOTO-MANIPULATION
1. Braden Blicharz – Evening Storm
2. Lucinda Lee – Self Portrait
POSTERS
1. Michelle Davis – Freakshow
2. Ysidro Gonzales – Tree Painting Poster
3D
1. Shannon Farmer – 3D Bolt
2. Tyler Zierk – Penelope Positive Puffer Fish
TRADITIONAL MEDIA
1. Kyle Kaufman – Astrodog
2. Domingo Parada – B-17B (TIE)
3. Kyle Kaufman – ScottyBoi (TIE)
WEBPAGE “WD”
1. Michelle Davis – Skyline
2. Natasha VanSwol – Rawr Zawr Rambles
To see the work entries for the 2019 District-wide Student Design Show, please select 2019 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW from the main menu, and select the category for the work you wish to see.
COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN “CC”
Promotional Campaigns for a single product, business, or service;
composed of three or more deliverable items
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION “DI”
Illustration Work Utilizing Digital Methods and software
LAYOUT “LY”
(books, covers, flyers, print publications, magazines, brochures)
LOGO / IDENTITY-PACKAGES “LID”
Logo Development, Branding, Corporate Identity Packages.
MULTIMEDIA “MM”
(games, presentations, audio, video, short animations)
PACKAGING “PK”
(die-cut overlays, box and label design, product packaging)
PHOTOGRAPHY (s.o.o.c.) “PHOU”
Photo work “straight out of the camera”
PHOTOGRAHY (post) “PHOE”
Photography work that has post production, retouching;
but not for illusion or effect.
PHOTO-MANIPULATION “PHOM”
(collage, composited images, significant retouching to alter image, effects, and image manipulation)
POSTERS “PO”
Poster format designs.
3D
(digital modeling, rendering, 3D digital printing)
TRADITIONAL MEDIA “TM”
(traditional media: dry media, wet media, dimensional)
WEBPAGE “WD”
wireframes, final comps, prototypes, and finished webpages and sites
13 categories, over 235 works submitted!
58 Combined Photography pieces
41 Layouts
35 Digital Illustrations
21 Traditional Media Works
20 Packaging Pieces
20 Posters
13 Logo and Identity Pieces
8 Multimedia works
7 3-D works
7 Campaigns
5 Webpages
The SUBMISSION LINK, as well as the GUIDELINES for submitting student work to the 2019 GTC DISTRICTWIDE STUDENT DESIGN SHOW are available here, as well as from Instructors on each of the campuses.
The SUBMISSION form for the electronic files (JPG, PNG, GIF) components (required for any student entering work in the show) are here:
SUBMISSIONS for 2019 SDS
(submissions not accepted after 11:59pm on 4/3/19)
Additionally, a PDF of all the guidelines are available by clicking on the image [link] below.
Former GTC student ( and Parkside Alumni) Eric Houghton will soon be releasing his next book: “Happy Hogan’s Day.” As Eric recounts, the holiday was created and celebrated in his family around the legend of the “Hogan Elf,” who allegedly put the toys together incorrectly after breaking them at the north pole [and who may or may not have in actual fact been Eric and his brother] …and they somehow wound up in his younger sister’s holiday stocking every year on “Hogan’s Day.”
From Eric’s book:
Eric Houghton is an artist, writer, humorist and performer from Southeastern Wisconsin. He has created over 6000 painting, fifty murals, produced a dozen theatrical performances, and written one other children’s book.
He invented Hogan’s Day in the 1980s, when he and his brother wondered if they could create a holiday from scratch. Hogan’s Day has been proudly celebrated in the Houghton household for decades.
slideshows of the Kenosha Atrium Reception
[click in each main image to launch the gallery]
2018 will probably go down as the year that the general public learned firsthand about “Analytics,”(if they weren’t already well-versed with the term, the news this year brought it into their lexicon with a few infamous cases).
Like many things, the data itself isn’t a bad thing (the way in which we choose to utilize it is where many of the objections come into play).
After 13 years absence, the show returned to the Kenosha Campus.
While the larger Kenosha atrium space may have altered perceptions slightly, this years show (2018) had slightly more attendees.
The amount of work was fairly consistent as well, although the category distribution changed (as it does from year-to-year). We had 290 submissions, with display of over 300 pieces.
The largest category continued to be DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY (albeit by a lesser margin this year) with approximately 22% of the work being in that category.
Just slightly over 21% of the work was in the LAYOUT category. This has, in many shows over the years, been a mainstay most associated with Graphic Design and Communications.
Just a bit under 20% was DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION.
TRADITIONAL MEDIA comprised just a bit over 8% of the work. In our first joint show (btw Kenosha in 1999) it was one of the more popular categories.
IDENTITY and BRANDING made up about 7.7% of the submissions this go-around, although the definition of branding and identity may have played into those category submissions.
PACKAGING made up around 6.7% of the submissions. The “packaging corridor” between Waukesha/Milwaukee county and Northern Illinois is second only to the Paper Valley and Twin cities border regions.
PHOTO MANIPULATION was 6.3%.
MULTIMEDIA ( a combined category or video, games, and presentations) was 2.8%.
3D modeling (using software to create 3D images, movies, models) was 2.1%.
WEB DESIGN was close to 1.5%.
