SDS 2022 SUBMISSION RULES for STUDENTS & CALL FOR ENTRIES

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.

🔗 https://forms.gle/gSP9dQgcKL8Qs7C17

Please read the accompanying submission guidelines and rules for submission statement sheet before submitting work.

SNEAK PEEK (SDS 2021 awards)…

They’re almost here!

Thanks to Mr. John Mizer for his professional expertise and hard work on this year’s STUDENT DESIGN SHOW AWARDS. Thanks also to John Zehren and the crew out at the Gateway Technical College’s/ S.C. Johnson iMET Center’s FAB LAB, and Mrs. Sherry Bubel and Dean Rodney Reece for providing the award materials.

2021 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW AWARDS

The 2021 SDS ” by the numbers…”

from Peter Pham

2021 was the year that we continued to learn more about Covid-19. New terms popped up like “covid-fatigue,” “variant mutations,” and “long-haulers.” It was also the year that brought us a vaccine to help us limit the spread of the disease and (hopefully) move towards herd-immunity not only as a community or region —hopefully as a planet.

There were moments of civil unrest in the light of local and national events…events that helped the world recognize how much we need to come together as a society to improve equity for everyone [A mission that GTC takes very seriously].

Amidst everything that happened in 2021, the students in the Graphic Comm program (and their families and supporters) pushed forward with their personal growth and learning.

We hope you enjoy this years edition of the 2021 Online District-wide Student Design Show.


illustration work: Amy Kleinhans

A few facts about this year’s show:

  • About 190 pieces were submitted
  • Students were to limit their submissions to 5 per student
  • Qualifying student work was to have been created between Spring of 2020 (post show) through Spring 2021.
  • it is always interesting to me, as I process the work, to see the trends in submission categories each year. This year (2021), he submissions (from MOST submissions per category down) were:  
    1. LAYOUT (~13%)
    2. PHOTOGRAPHY with limited POST (~13%)
    3. DIGITAL ILLUSRATION (~11.5%)
    4. LOGOS and IDENTITY (~11.5%)
    5. PHOTOGRAPHY (~11%)
    6. COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN (~9%)
    7. TRADITIONAL ILLUSTRATION (~8.4%)
    8. PACKAGING (~8%)
    9. POSTERS (~8%)
    10. OTHERS (~6.5% combined)