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.
We all know how the GTC Student Design Show has pivoted its delivery and adjusted its presence in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The previously catered gala-style events and live celebrations at facilities throughout the district had to be shifted mere weeks before they were scheduled to occur in 2020. We went from a harried, yet greatly successful Facebook Live delivery with our 2020 District-Wide Student Design Show, to an even more successful YOUTUBE™ Live event the next year!
But in addition to events like the SDS on a departmental scale, on a broader institutional scale, all instructors had to innovate and integrate new ideas…once again ‘pivoting’ out of sheer necessity… and relying on innovation and dedication to continue to provide learning activities to our students.
In the FALL of 2021, we continued offering O-Sync sections ensure quality delivery and safety. These sections can sometimes be challenging, with some students in the classroom socially distanced (and wearing masks), combined with others ZOOM conferencing in from a distance.
A popular communal collaboration exercise had to adapt to these changes as well, and wound up adding a new flair to the activity. The “color quilt” was a metaphorical quilt activity where a randomly generated color swatch [ #ED243E] was selected for an entire class section in Peter Pham’s DesignConcepts class. Each member of the class (a class that teaches the fundamentals of color, typography, design composition, and computer basics as they pertain to design) had to then design an eight by eight inch section for the quilt around an individually assigned color scheme utilizing the assigned color swatch.
In previous incarnations, the students would physically assemble in a space and put their sections of the quilt together into a whole that both worked as a whole, while still allowing some degree of individuality based around a basic set of rules.
Assembly day saw students in prior years gathering in a common space with masking tape loops in hand. The “virtual quilt” of 2021 saw students crafting digital files of their pieces to be assembled into a mockup that could ‘hang’ virtually in a variety of environments. Jokingly some mentioned “The Great Wall of China.” Student off-site as well as on-location waited to see the final product.
Without further ado… the FA2021 virtual color quilt to those students who participated.
Members of the 204-100-2RHA/2RYA O-Sync section that participated in this activity were (L to R, top to bottom): C. Brunkle [Split complementary] , J. Tisch [Analagous] , A. Lindsey [Clash], V. Bass [Analagous] , C. Arrendodo [Clash], G. Lee [Clash], J. Rodriguez [Triadic-Primary or Tertiary], (placeholder), L. Najera [Split Complementary], R. Gomez [analagous], K. Kosterman [Triadic- Primary or Tertiary], G. Gauthier [Split Complement], S. Hansen [Monochromatic ], J. Haubrich [ Triadic], S. Campbell [Complementary].
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!
Creative Bloq recently hosted an article for Visual Communications students offering “expert tips” on obtaining that initial design position. Click on the link for the full article.
A recent discussion among many students in the program highlighted something brought to light by Program Advisors in previous meetings: the importance of a solid TYPOGRAPHY foundation.
Some sites that have been shared to increase your awareness and skill in utilizing fonts for a communicative message (branding and general visually communicative applications) are here for friends of the program:
Gateway’s Graphic Comm department wants to wish you all a great summer, and look forward to seeing new and returning students in the 2019 Fall semester.
Prospective new students, feel free to visit us at one of the summer OPEN HOUSE fairs from 4:00 – 7:00pm:
Some students participated in the creation of Movie Posters for a local film being produced in and around the Racine Area, with an “all-Racine cast,” in the Spring 2019 semester.
The film is an Indie ‘musical-comedy-horror’ produced and directed by former Racine resident “Loganzo Poelmanzo,” and loosely inspired by the 1976 murder of an area teen.
