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 for students to pick up at their nearby campus.
Contact your instructors to find mutual hours before the fall semester, or pickup anytime during the 2025 Fall semester.
Work not claimed by the end of October 2025 will be disposed of in accord with the show rules..
To see information about our 2025 Student Design Show, including Reception, Catering, Entertainmet, Judges, and this year’s Show Identity design, please see the section entitled The 2025 Student Design Show under the main menu item.
The Graphic Design Department [Department Dean Steven, Department Assistant Sherry, and Instructors: Jodi, Keith, and Peter] would like to welcome everyone to the 2025 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW!
THE 2025 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW
Please peruse the site and the work submitted by students for the 2025 Student Design show by clicking on the main menu to see this year’s student submission for judging in the design show.
Past Student Design Shows
To see Work from previous years’ SDS, please click on this menu item. These works are NOT juried this year, but share previous years’ winners in each category.
There is also information about the genesis and history of the Student Design Show
Gateway Technical College
Contains information about:
• The off-campus site origination of this site
• The Graphic Design Program FACULTY and Administrative team
• Graphic Design Program information
Home
Home is the main news feed in reverse chronological posting order. You can see some information about students (past and present) as well as faculty and the “goings on” at Gateway from the perspective of our program.
There is also a link to the YOUTUBE videos form previous design shows.
NOTE to Judges:
judges, please look for the judging form to arrive via your listed email address. Use this site for referring to student work, but the judging form for selecting your categorical winners.
The SUMOBOT competition is a battling robot competition sponsored each year by Gateway Technical College and held in the main bay at the SC Johnson iMET center. This event brings in hundreds of middle and high school students from all over the three-county GATEWAY district. Many volunteers from within as well as outside of Gateway help to. make the event a memorable one that the students look forward to each year.
One of the most coveted pieces of swag among the students and the sumobot community at large is the SUMO-BOT T-shirt.
The upcoming Sumo-bot Competition T-shirt was designed by Angela Christenson in Jodi Heisz’s Computer Illustration class.
Gateway Technical College, and the Graphic Design Department are proud to announce that Graphic Design Student Anthony Antreassian had his design selected to be the student handbook cover for 2025/2026 school year.
Anthony’s winning design was generated in Ms. Jodi Heiz’s class, and was selected by the GTC Marketing Department’s Handbook team.
Anthony received a scholarship for his winning design.
Students can look forward to seeing Anthony’s design on the handbook beginning in the FALL semester at your campus libraries , bookstores, and commons.
Students in the fall sections of the ADVANCED CLASSES submitted their 2025 GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE DISTRICT-WIDE STUDENT DESIGN SHOW design submissions way back in October and November of 2024.
Members of GTC’s Administration team have helped us each year in the selection of the Show Identity and Direction… and this year’s show identity has been selected.
The DESIGN SHOW has been scheduled to run from May 11 through the 18th, in the Bay Area of the S.C.Johnson iMET CENTER in Sturtevant, Wisconsin.
A gala AWARDS RECEPTION PARTY is scheduled for May 15th, with MUSIC, hors d’oeuvres, open labs, and of course the awarding of our panel selected show category winners.
The DESIGN SELECTED for this year’s design show (the item that received the most ordinal vote points) by the participating administrators was:
Jaden Hinds’ submission that captured color and a metaphor for creativity was selected for the 2025 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW Identity by the voting Administrative staff at GTC.
Cole Garland’s colorful and ‘illuminating’ submission was an extremely close second place entry— only 4 ordinal points separated the first and second place entries.
Jennifer Maldonado’s submission was a close third place. The analogous/ monochrome retro-feel poster illustration capture the idea of “doing.”
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:
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!
