Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
Department Site for the Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
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
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION “DI”
Illustration Work Utilizing Digital Methods and software
LAYOUT “LY”
(books, covers, flyers, print publications, magazines, brochures)
LOGO / IDENTITY-PACKAGES “LID”
Logo Development, Branding, Corporate Identity Packages.
MULTIMEDIA “MM”
(games, presentations, audio, video, short animations)
PACKAGING “PK”
(die-cut overlays, box and label design, product packaging)
PHOTOGRAPHY (s.o.o.c.) “PHOU”
Photo work “straight out of the camera”
PHOTOGRAHY (post) “PHOE”
Photography work that has post production, retouching;
but not for illusion or effect.
PHOTO-MANIPULATION “PHOM”
(collage, composited images, significant retouching to alter image, effects, and image manipulation)
POSTERS “PO”
Poster format designs.
3D
(digital modeling, rendering, 3D digital printing)
TRADITIONAL MEDIA “TM”
(traditional media: dry media, wet media, dimensional)
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.
After the 2018 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW, Student Submissions for the 2018 show will be viewable via the links listed below
BRANDING / IDENTITY
(campaign, logo dev, Corporate Identity, Branding, collateral branding [magnets, shirts, pens, etc.)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Branding and Identity Work |
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
Illustration Work Utilizing Digital Methods and software
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Digital Illustration Work |
LAYOUT
(posters, books, covers, magazines, brochures)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Layout Work |
MULTIMEDIA
(games, presentations, audio, video)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Multimedia Work |
PACKAGING
(die-cut overlays, box and label design, product packaging)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Packaging Work |
PHOTOGRAPHY
(s.o.o.c. cropping, minimal global editing)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Photography Work |
PHOTO-MANIPULATION
(collage, composited images, significant retouching, effects, manipulation)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Photo-Manipulation Work |
3D
(digital modeling, rendering,3D digital printing)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student 3D Work |
TRADITIONAL MEDIA ILLUSTRATION
(traditional media: dry media, wet media, dimensional)
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Traditional Media Work |
WEBPAGE DESIGN
wireframes, final comps, prototypes, and finished webpages
| TOP 5 in Judging for all categories | Student Web Design Work |
2018 SDS JUDGES
many thanks to this years judges!
2018 SDS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to all who have helped make this year’s show.
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!
GTC Students submitting artwork for the 2016 Student Design Show will be required to follow the 2 page submission guideline sheet for the show.
In general:
GTC Students submitting work for the 2016 Student Design Show will be required to submit a digital preview file of all submitted work (JPG or PNG) for use in the show web site. The directions for submitting your digital files are on the submission guidelines
Alumni Joe Schmidt has just penned a deal with Oghma for his forthcoming observational comedy, Sugar Balls! Joe has been actively making comics, stories, podcasts, and designs for years.
Per Oghma’s release:
Joe is a humorist by birth and a graphic designer and cartoonist by training. He describes himself as a, “magic-man, cartoonist, consumer of pop culture… [more on the site—Click on the photo below for the FB page announcement.]