Please enjoy the work of Gateway Technical College’sGraphic 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 2022 Gateway Technical College District Student Design ShowSubmissions can be viewed via this website
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.
The 2022 – 2023 handbook designed by Jasmine Wagner
GTC STUDENT HANDBOOK DESIGNS click on any thumbnail to open a larger-sized image in a new browser tab.
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:
Several students from the Graphic Design Department have participated and contributed to this year’s GTC RED HAWK REVIEW. Click on thew link below to see some of the literary and visual contributions by GTC students!
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.
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
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
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.
Three of four prizes in the LIFE IS BIG video contest for Gateway were won by Graphic Comm students!
Congratulations to Tina Buckley, Chris Palomares, and Tonia Copabianco, who all won some of the top prizes! Incidentally, you can see some of their videos in this year’s (2018) Student Design Show Multimedia Category.
