Category: Graphic Communications Program Information

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GTC Students create NISOD Cover Design Proposals

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:

  • Samantha Boothroyd
  • Leah Carroll
  • Arianne Clarke
  • Mariah Giffey
  • Eri Jaramilo
  • Kathrine Noble
  • Marissa Reyes
  • Race Thill
STUDENT NISOD IDENTITY SUBMISSIONS

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2020 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW ONLINE AWARD WINNERS (and ONLINE AWARDS CEREMONY 4/21/20)

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.

GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT 
2020 Student Design Show
ONLINE AWARDS EVENT!

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020, 7:00pm 
JOIN US VIA ZOOM Video Conference (see your emails) ,
or the FACEBOOK PAGE for LIVE VIDEO FEED

WINNERS

The list of winners for this years design show:

MULTIMEDIA

  1. Gerardo Facio
  2. Chelsea Wolfe

COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN

  1. Tara Vodak
  2. Anne Marie Burch Slone

3D

  1. Lyn Marie
  2. Theresa Sarpong

LOGOS, IDENTITY, PKG

  1. Nikki Poole
  2. Gerardo Facio

LAYOUT

  1. Gerardo Facio
  2. (tie) Tara Vodak / Gerardo Facio

TRADITIONAL

  1. Lyn Marie
  2. Nathan DeHahn

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION

  1. Brisa Valadez
  2. Rachel Lindemann

PHOTO-MANIPULATION

  1. Alaina Rasmusson
  2. Veronica Gutierrez

PHOTOGRAPHY with POST

  1. Samantha Hanneman
  2. Amy Georgi

PHOTOGRAPHY SOOC

  1. Anayeli Esquivel
  2. Nathan DeHahn

WEBPAGE

  1. Chelsea Wolfe
  2. Roxane Faulkner

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First Look: 2018 Student Design Show Awards

This year’s identity features a stylized watercolor “Red Hawk” (Gateway’s mascot) soaring upward in flight. An apt visual metaphor for Gateway Students.

For this year’s award, designer Kristen Cajka looked towards something different—adding more color and a unique quality to the awards.
With the assistance of the Fab Lab’s John Zehren, and instructor  Peter Pham, Kristen’s awards were fabricated from scratch with materials purchased at local businesses, and  manufactured at Gateway’s S.C. Johnson iMET center FAB LAB.

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2018 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW IDENTITY

This Spring, the district-wide STUDENT DESIGN SHOW will return to the Kenosha Campus! (The last design show held on the Kenosha campus was in 2005). The RECEPTION and AWARDS will be held on Thursday, April 12, 2018, from 5:00 – 8:00pm in the Kenosha Campus Atrium.

This year’s identity was designed by Ms. Kristen Cajka. Kristen’s design was selected from a panel of Administrators and Administrative support personnel (at the end of January) from a pool of submissions from students in the Advanced course on both the Racine and Elkhorn Campuses.

It incorporates Kristen’s traditional watercolor interpretation of the Gateway Technical College mascot soaring upwards; the RED HAWK.

Congratulations Kristen!

 

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NEW LOOK LABS on the RACINE CAMPUS!

The Racine Campus has undergone some major renovations over the summer term. When Students return for the fall term, they will notice a new set of labs for the program.
Campus Dean Ray Koukari shared this image of L202 (new right wall with new classroom next door) with the Graphics Team. Graphic Instructor offices will be just down the hall from where they used to be located.

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Journal Entries from Students Studying Abroad

chateau

The summers of 2017 & 2018, GTC GRAPHIC COMM students had the chance to study abroad at a provincial French estate/vineyard; restoring and renovating.
Quick on one of the links below to see journal posts from the latest Graphic Comm study-abroad trip to the Château de Gudanes.

2017                               2018

 

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Visitors from Morocco

Visitors from several different programs at our  Poly-tech exchange school in Morocco recently stopped in for a critique in Peter Pham’s Computer Illustration Class. Welcome to our guests and many happy memories and safe travels to you!