Category: Student Design Show

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Welcome to the 2024 Gateway Technical College Districtwide Student Design Show!

The Website for the 2024 Student Design Show is now live, and student work has been hung in the NORTH BUILDING COMMONS on the Elkhorn Campus for the show launch 4/16/24.

An OPENING RECEPTION and AWARDS CEREMONY is slated for THURSDAY, APRIL 18th , from approximately 5 until 8 pm.
Hors d’oeuvres will be served and the event will feature a LIVE performance by the GEBEL GIRLS.

The event is open to the general public, and the greater business community. Invitations have been extended to area high schools through our outreach employees, and our collegiate and business parters in the region.

To view the 2024 Student work, please look undertake main menu for the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW WORK CATEGORIES.

This year’s show will feature work in ten categories.

You can access the show work by going under THE 2024 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW menu and selecting the area you would like to view.

The 2024 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW area features information about this year’s show identity, and additional student winners for competition work undertaken by the class sections. We also have some information about the entertainment and our faculty.

The GRADUATING SECOND YEAR STUDENT area features the banners and Behance portfolio links for ours Applied Exit Strategy students.

For our 2024 STUDENT WORK (entered into the judging):

COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGNS is an area that features multi-component/multi-phased student projects

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION features illustration work using a variety of digital media.

LAYOUT is an area featuring published items (mostly multiple-pages or panels) with layout as the major skill set

LOGOS & IDENTITY is a combined area featuring Identity Projects, Logo and Mark Development projects, and Stationery-style projects.

MULTIMEDIA / WEB is a combined area featuring timeline-based projects (audio/video/presentations) and any web mockup.

PACKAGING & 3D is a combined area featuring 3-D software related items, 3-D printing, and dimensional packaging projects

PHOTOGRAPHY SOOC (SOC) features photography “straight out of the camera,” with only cropping allowed

PHOTOGRAPHY with POST (PHE) and PHOTO MANIPULATION/COMPOSITES (PHM) is a combined category this year for images with multiple levels of post-processing or manipulation and composites.

POSTERS contains poster-based designs.

TRADITIONAL MEDIA contains illustrations using traditional illustration media (charcoal, pastel, colored pencil, paints, etc.)

We hope you enjoy viewing the work of this year’s students both virtually as well as on campus.

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CONGRATS to GTC ALUM JASON HEDMAN!

Works by local artist (and GTC Alum) Jason Hedman were on display through March 30 at Kenosha Creative Space, 624 57th St.

Jason Hedman, a lifelong Kenoshan, has been a creator in many different avenues through life. With past dabbling in writing and music, visual art has always been the medium Hedman has embraced time and time again.

In the past few years, Hedman has become well-known throughout the community as an up-and-coming artist. Hedman’s style is always evolving, but tends to reflect his interest in history, society, and pop culture.

Some of his well-known pieces have incorporated other popular icons in new and different ways. Much of his art represents his own anti-authoritarian nature which he has finally found a safe (and legal) path to cast his interests.

This past winter, Hedman has experimented with collage art – mixed media with acrylics on canvas. This style shift is partly in response to the growing trend of artificial intelligence. With an interest in history, Hedman dove into collecting a large supply of newspapers and magazines dating back almost 100 years.

Check out Jason’s FACEBOOK PAGE , INSTAGRAM, and LINKED-IN Profile.

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The 2024 Student Design Show Identity!

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!

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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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The 2020 ONLINE Student Design Show

from the Co-chairs, John and Peter

2020 brought us some unique challenges.
Around the same time we were finalizing the details for our show, we became aware of the precautions necessary for the COVID-19 outbreak. In very short order, the faculty transitioned to online course delivery, learned some neat new pieces of software, and found out about the local, state, and national responses to the crisis.

In the following weeks, we discovered how truly appropriate all the measures were, with the virus impacting the entire world.

An administrative decision made quite early (a very wise decision) was to cancel all public events. The large gala event that was scheduled had to be scaled back to an online-only event. Thankfully— students responded amidst all the other changes in their lives, and the adage: “The show must go on…” became prophetically fulfilled.

We hope you enjoy this version of the 2020 Online District-wide Student Design Show.

A few facts about this year’s show:

  • About 170 pieces were submitted
  • Students were to limit their submissions to 5 per student
  • Qualifying student work was to have been created between April 7, 2019 through March 27, 2020; with the student enrolled in coursework from
    Summer 2019 through Spring 2020.
  • The submission CATEGORIES (from MOST submissions per category) were:
    LOGOS, PACKAGING, Identity, ~23%
    LAYOUT, ~19%
    DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION, ~17%
    PHOTOGRAPHY with post-processing, ~13%
    PHOTOGRAPHY w/o post, ~8%
    TRADITIONAL MEDIA, ~6%
    CAMPAIGN and 3D, ~ 2.4% each
    the remaining categories were under 2%
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:

The 2020 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW UPDATE

Good Morning Students, and Friends of the GTC Annual Student Design Show:

I hope you are all doing well.
As you know, we are living historically unique time. March 12, the GTC Staff and faculty were informed about the college’s proactive precautionary steps. One of the precautions is that Gateway Events in the near future have been canceled for public safety in the light of the “Coronavirus” (COVID-19) outbreak. This prudent move was made with public health and safety foremost in everyone’s mind..

Fortunately, we in graphics were digitally equipped to pivot our Student Design Show from a community-wide event into an online show (accessible too even more of the public). So the show will go on — but in an online format. 

So far we, your graphics instructors, have determined:

  • We can create and deploy a custom website featuring all of your work  
  • We can have industry judges review your entries and select the best of show and honorable mention winners
  • We can send the awards to our jury-selected winners
  • We can feature our “soon-to-be graduates” with a feature page and links to your individual Behance accounts and websites.

We are determined to showcase your work and celebrate our graduating class, we just need to pivot and do it a little differently this year.

This all unfolded very quickly (Thursday evening [3/12] into Friday Morning), and we will continue to communicate more specific information as soon as it becomes available to us.

In the meantime, you may be asking yourself,
“What should I  be doing?

  • Classes (ALL CLASSES) will be shifted from classroom meetings on-campus, to online delivery of content continued online after that.
  • Wash your hands frequently, and avoid touching your face. You may want to carry individual hand sanitizer if you have it, and wash your hands.
  • Wipe down anything communally handled before and after you use it.
  • Organize your work for the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW digitally and please get it submitted on-time meeting the specifications outlined.
  • Soon-to-be graduates, please be diligent in getting your Behance accounts polished and completed. They will be used to feature you to the industry and the public.

The Design Show submission instructions are on site until March 29th.
Please disregard the information regarding traditional printing and mounting for the iMET center, instead, focus on preparing internet-ready graphics.

Please refer to your email and the college website for college-wide information regarding the institution’s response to the COVID-19 situation. Also, please be mindful that information is changing regularly, so it is recommended that you check the site regularly.

Thank you for your flexibility and understanding while we navigate this uncharted territory.

Sincerely,

Michelle, Peter, John, Laura, Sue, and Kevin

(the Graphic Communications Crew)

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SDS 2020 Identity Selected

Students in John Mizer and Michelle Quinn’s Advanced Classes crafted submissions for the upcoming 2020 District-wide Student Design Show. The submissions were voted on by a select group of Administrators, Deans, Advisors and Advisory Committee members.

This year’s winner :

Submissions that ranked in the top 5 can be seen on this site.