Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
Department Site for the Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
Another show down… and it’s time for students to arrange work pickup over the summer and into the fall semester. We have the mounted boards, leftover business cards, and Coroplast individual posters. Contact your instructors to find mutual hours before the fall semester, or pickup anytime during the 2024 Fall semester.
Work not claimed by the end of the fall semester will be disposed of.
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 2024 Student Design Show. Please read and follow the guidelines for work submission. If yu have ANY questions, please ask your instructors!
Students in the fall sections of the ADVANCED CLASSES submitted their 2024 GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE DISTRICT-WIDE STUDENT DESIGN SHOW design submissions back in October and November of 2023.
The event has been scheduled this year on April 16th – 22nd, in the North Commons of Gateway’s Elkhorn Campus, with anAWARDS RECEPTION PARTY scheduled for April 18th.
Members of GTC’s Administration team have helped us each year in the selection of the Show Identity and Direction.
The DESIGN SELECTED for this year’s design show (the item that received the most ordinal vote points) is:
Voting was a bit tighter this year, and Alexander Barthuly’s Design won by two points among our Administrative Team. A faded and scratched retro-poster feel, colorful design, and “entry ticket” concept make a loose allusion to Gateway being an entry-ticket of sorts,
as well as being an invitation to people to attend.
The SECOND PLACE SELECTION:
Aaron Zachar’s design has a “traditional media” feel of chalk and pastels against a sketch-like typographical treatment emphasizing the traditional artistic underpinnings
sometimes utilized in the graphic design field.
The THIRD PLACE SELECTION:
Erika Menzel’s sketch-style butterfly makes a fine art-style allusion to a metamorphosis, with a sketchbook-style “doodled” typographical treatment in the fore.
The Graphic Design Department would like to thank all of the Administrators who helped us select this year’s identity, and congratulate all of the students who participated in this year’s competition.
We look forward to seeing everyone at the show in April!
Please enjoy the work of Gateway Technical College’s Graphic 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 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.
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.
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:
A heartfelt “THANK-YOU” to all of our Industry Judges who took time from their schedules to evaluate, rank, and select the winners of this years UNIQUE design show.
Please take a look at all of the wonderful work submitted for the 2020 Edition of the Student Design Show. You can see the work by accessing it directly through the main menu.
The JUDGES for this year’s show can be found in this year’s JUDGES link.
Be sure to check out our second-years students (our “Seniors”) individual portfolio sites.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020, 7:00pm
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The list of winners for this years design show:
MULTIMEDIA
COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN
3D
LOGOS, IDENTITY, PKG
LAYOUT
TRADITIONAL
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
PHOTO-MANIPULATION
PHOTOGRAPHY with POST
PHOTOGRAPHY SOOC
WEBPAGE
Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning has announced the top 50 Best Graphic Design Degree Programs for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
In 2021 Gateway Technical College moved up to a ranking of #2 (99.15/100) for students with prior credits, and to #1 in online Technical College Graphics!
Intelligent.com stated that any student that taking one of the ranked programs will give the students much quicker access to employment. With the job market growing in the Graphics field and the accessibility and cost for students is why intelligent.com did this research.
Enjoy these images from the 2019 SDS. Please contact us with any additional images you’d like to share.
