Please enjoy the work of Gateway Technical College’s Graphic Communications Program students!
Click on the 2021 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW menu item above to navigate through this year’s student submissions.

Department Site for the Graphic Design Program at Gateway Technical College
Please enjoy the work of Gateway Technical College’s Graphic Communications Program students!
Click on the 2021 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW menu item above to navigate through this year’s student submissions.
They’re almost here!
Thanks to Mr. John Mizer for his professional expertise and hard work on this year’s STUDENT DESIGN SHOW AWARDS. Thanks also to John Zehren and the crew out at the Gateway Technical College’s/ S.C. Johnson iMET Center’s FAB LAB, and Mrs. Sherry Bubel and Dean Rodney Reece for providing the award materials.
from Peter Pham
2021 was the year that we continued to learn more about Covid-19. New terms popped up like “covid-fatigue,” “variant mutations,” and “long-haulers.” It was also the year that brought us a vaccine to help us limit the spread of the disease and (hopefully) move towards herd-immunity not only as a community or region —hopefully as a planet.
There were moments of civil unrest in the light of local and national events…events that helped the world recognize how much we need to come together as a society to improve equity for everyone [A mission that GTC takes very seriously].
Amidst everything that happened in 2021, the students in the Graphic Comm program (and their families and supporters) pushed forward with their personal growth and learning.
We hope you enjoy this years edition of the 2021 Online District-wide Student Design Show.
A few facts about this year’s show:
Link to the 2020 “VIRTUAL” Districtwide Student Design Show.
Zoom Video, simulcast on Facebook Live as well as ZOOM, 4/21/2020.
A heartfelt “THANK-YOU” to all of our Industry Judges who took time from their schedules to evaluate, rank, and select the winners of this years UNIQUE design show.
Please take a look at all of the wonderful work submitted for the 2020 Edition of the Student Design Show. You can see the work by accessing it directly through the main menu.
The JUDGES for this year’s show can be found in this year’s JUDGES link.
Be sure to check out our second-years students (our “Seniors”) individual portfolio sites.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020, 7:00pm
JOIN US VIA ZOOM Video Conference (see your emails) ,
or the FACEBOOK PAGE for LIVE VIDEO FEED
The list of winners for this years design show:
MULTIMEDIA
COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN
3D
LOGOS, IDENTITY, PKG
LAYOUT
TRADITIONAL
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
PHOTO-MANIPULATION
PHOTOGRAPHY with POST
PHOTOGRAPHY SOOC
WEBPAGE
from the Co-chairs, John and Peter
2020 brought us some unique challenges.
Around the same time we were finalizing the details for our show, we became aware of the precautions necessary for the COVID-19 outbreak. In very short order, the faculty transitioned to online course delivery, learned some neat new pieces of software, and found out about the local, state, and national responses to the crisis.
In the following weeks, we discovered how truly appropriate all the measures were, with the virus impacting the entire world.
An administrative decision made quite early (a very wise decision) was to cancel all public events. The large gala event that was scheduled had to be scaled back to an online-only event. Thankfully— students responded amidst all the other changes in their lives, and the adage: “The show must go on…” became prophetically fulfilled.
We hope you enjoy this version of the 2020 Online District-wide Student Design Show.
A few facts about this year’s show:
Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning has announced the top 50 Best Graphic Design Degree Programs for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
In 2021 Gateway Technical College moved up to a ranking of #2 (99.15/100) for students with prior credits, and to #1 in online Technical College Graphics!
Intelligent.com stated that any student that taking one of the ranked programs will give the students much quicker access to employment. With the job market growing in the Graphics field and the accessibility and cost for students is why intelligent.com did this research.
Good Morning Students, and Friends of the GTC Annual Student Design Show:
I hope you are all doing well.
As you know, we are living historically unique time. March 12, the GTC Staff and faculty were informed about the college’s proactive precautionary steps. One of the precautions is that Gateway Events in the near future have been canceled for public safety in the light of the “Coronavirus” (COVID-19) outbreak. This prudent move was made with public health and safety foremost in everyone’s mind..
Fortunately, we in graphics were digitally equipped to pivot our Student Design Show from a community-wide event into an online show (accessible too even more of the public). So the show will go on — but in an online format.
So far we, your graphics instructors, have determined:
We are determined to showcase your work and celebrate our graduating class, we just need to pivot and do it a little differently this year.
This all unfolded very quickly (Thursday evening [3/12] into Friday Morning), and we will continue to communicate more specific information as soon as it becomes available to us.
In the meantime, you may be asking yourself,
“What should I be doing?
The Design Show submission instructions are on site until March 29th.
Please disregard the information regarding traditional printing and mounting for the iMET center, instead, focus on preparing internet-ready graphics.
Please refer to your email and the college website for college-wide information regarding the institution’s response to the COVID-19 situation. Also, please be mindful that information is changing regularly, so it is recommended that you check the site regularly.
Thank you for your flexibility and understanding while we navigate this uncharted territory.
Sincerely,
Michelle, Peter, John, Laura, Sue, and Kevin
(the Graphic Communications Crew)
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.