Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
Department Site for the Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
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 read the 2025 rules for submission statement sheet before submitting work.
We are calling for submissions to the 2025 Edition of the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW, to be held May 15, 2025 ay the S.C. JOHNSON iMET CENTER (in Sturtevant Wisconsin).
Students must submit the following work:
[link to the work Submission form is below]
https://forms.gle/rFcNc1wfZFVTdaY86
BE SURE TO READ and FOLLOW the submission rules for this year’s show!
This is a link to the FULL PDF DOCUMENT [downloadable as well as embedded] containing the submission rules for students who wish to submit work for the 2025 Student Design Show. Please read and follow the guidelines for work submission. If you have ANY questions, please ask your instructors!
This is a link to the FULL PDF DOCUMENT [downloadable as well as embedded] containing the submission rules for students who wish to submit work for the 2025 Student Design Show. Please read and follow the guidelines for work submission. If you have ANY questions, please ask your instructors!
We’ll see everyone there!
from Peter Pham
A few facts about this year’s show:
Every year I process the work for each Student Design Show, I make note of the trends that appear among the submissions each year. Certain work is consistently submitted, while other categories seem to ‘ebb and flow.’
We’re sharing images from the SDS 2023 Awards Reception on this site.
If you have any images that you would like to share with us, Please contact one of the instructors and share any photos or videos from the show that we can in turn share with everyone!
Susan LaCanne lacannes@gtc.edu
Laura Laznicka laznickal@gtc.edu
Peter Pham phampete@gtc.edu
