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The 2021 SDS ” by the numbers…”

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.

illustration work: Amy Kleinhans

A few facts about this year’s show:

  • About 190 pieces were submitted
  • Students were to limit their submissions to 5 per student
  • Qualifying student work was to have been created between Spring of 2020 (post show) through Spring 2021.
  • it is always interesting to me, as I process the work, to see the trends in submission categories each year. This year (2021), he submissions (from MOST submissions per category down) were:  
    1. LAYOUT (~13%)
    2. PHOTOGRAPHY with limited POST (~13%)
    3. DIGITAL ILLUSRATION (~11.5%)
    4. LOGOS and IDENTITY (~11.5%)
    5. PHOTOGRAPHY (~11%)
    6. COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN (~9%)
    7. TRADITIONAL ILLUSTRATION (~8.4%)
    8. PACKAGING (~8%)
    9. POSTERS (~8%)
    10. OTHERS (~6.5% combined)
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2020 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW ONLINE AWARD WINNERS (and ONLINE AWARDS CEREMONY 4/21/20)

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.

GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT 
2020 Student Design Show
ONLINE AWARDS EVENT!

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020, 7:00pm 
JOIN US VIA ZOOM Video Conference (see your emails) ,
or the FACEBOOK PAGE for LIVE VIDEO FEED

WINNERS

The list of winners for this years design show:

MULTIMEDIA

  1. Gerardo Facio
  2. Chelsea Wolfe

COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN

  1. Tara Vodak
  2. Anne Marie Burch Slone

3D

  1. Lyn Marie
  2. Theresa Sarpong

LOGOS, IDENTITY, PKG

  1. Nikki Poole
  2. Gerardo Facio

LAYOUT

  1. Gerardo Facio
  2. (tie) Tara Vodak / Gerardo Facio

TRADITIONAL

  1. Lyn Marie
  2. Nathan DeHahn

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION

  1. Brisa Valadez
  2. Rachel Lindemann

PHOTO-MANIPULATION

  1. Alaina Rasmusson
  2. Veronica Gutierrez

PHOTOGRAPHY with POST

  1. Samantha Hanneman
  2. Amy Georgi

PHOTOGRAPHY SOOC

  1. Anayeli Esquivel
  2. Nathan DeHahn

WEBPAGE

  1. Chelsea Wolfe
  2. Roxane Faulkner

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The 2020 ONLINE Student Design Show

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:

  • About 170 pieces were submitted
  • Students were to limit their submissions to 5 per student
  • Qualifying student work was to have been created between April 7, 2019 through March 27, 2020; with the student enrolled in coursework from
    Summer 2019 through Spring 2020.
  • The submission CATEGORIES (from MOST submissions per category) were:
    LOGOS, PACKAGING, Identity, ~23%
    LAYOUT, ~19%
    DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION, ~17%
    PHOTOGRAPHY with post-processing, ~13%
    PHOTOGRAPHY w/o post, ~8%
    TRADITIONAL MEDIA, ~6%
    CAMPAIGN and 3D, ~ 2.4% each
    the remaining categories were under 2%
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GTC Graphic Design ranks with the nation’s TOP DESIGN PROGRAMS

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.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:

The 2020 STUDENT DESIGN SHOW UPDATE

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 can create and deploy a custom website featuring all of your work  
  • We can have industry judges review your entries and select the best of show and honorable mention winners
  • We can send the awards to our jury-selected winners
  • We can feature our “soon-to-be graduates” with a feature page and links to your individual Behance accounts and websites.

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?

  • Classes (ALL CLASSES) will be shifted from classroom meetings on-campus, to online delivery of content continued online after that.
  • Wash your hands frequently, and avoid touching your face. You may want to carry individual hand sanitizer if you have it, and wash your hands.
  • Wipe down anything communally handled before and after you use it.
  • Organize your work for the STUDENT DESIGN SHOW digitally and please get it submitted on-time meeting the specifications outlined.
  • Soon-to-be graduates, please be diligent in getting your Behance accounts polished and completed. They will be used to feature you to the industry and the public.

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)

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SDS 2020 Identity Selected

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.

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Helpful Links for Fonts

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:

FONT “PAIRINGS”

https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-pairing-fonts–webdesign-5706

“WHAT YOUR WEB TYPE SAYS ABOUT YOU” (visual branding)

https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/what-your-web-typography-says-about-you–cms-33200?UTM_medium=social