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GCOM and PHOTO 490 Second Saturday Recap

gcomdre — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:49:11 +0000

Thanks to everyone for coming to the GCOM and PHOTO department joint Second Saturday show at Beatnik!

See photos from the photo booth at the event at http://www.gcomclub.com/showphotos. Thanks to Ron Nabity for setting that up!

GCOM/PHOTO Second Saturday Show this Weekend! (VIDEO)

gcomdre — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:25:27 +0000

REMINDER: The GCOM Club (GCOM 490: Studio + Club) students will be featured in a Second Saturday Show, THIS SATURDAY, January 9, 2009, from 6-10pm at Beatnik Studios. Joint projects will be featured by showcasing GCOM and PHOTO Club students’ collaborative efforts to reproduce iconic advertising.

Thanks to Good Day Sacramento for featuring us again this morning. Check out the segment!

We stole your ads.

gcomdre — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:56:50 +0000

The GCOM Club (GCOM 490: Studio + Club) students will be featured in a Second Saturday Show, January 9, 2009, from 6-10pm at Beatnik Studios.

Joint projects will be featured by showcasing GCOM and PHOTO Club students’ collaborative efforts to reproduce iconic advertising.

See work by:

GCOM Students
Maricela Alvarez
Andrew Clementi
Christie Garcia
Priscilla Garcia
Charles Henderson
Kolton Kammerer
William Leung
Lori Llanillo
Kevin Scott

PHOTO Students
Nellie Coats
Lindsay Davis
Kevin Fiscus
Adam Jantz
Heather Leggett
Rachel Lomeli
Louise Mitchell
Ron Nabity
Jessica Nicosia-Nadler
Andrew Nixon
Trachell Oliver
Priscilla Ouchida

The GCOM Student Design Awards are coming.

gcomdre — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:09:12 +0000

Save your final GCOM projects from this semester for the Student Design Awards next semester.

The 2010 GCOM Student Design Awards will recognize the best student work of the 09-10 school
year.

The competition is open to GCOM@SCC students who were or are enrolled in one or more GCOM classes during the Fall 2009 and/or Spring 2010 semesters.

Entries will be judged by local art directors and designers and entries that win gold or silver awards will be display at Brainstorm: the GCOM Student Showcase in May 2010.

Check out the some of the work from last year’s Student Design Awards here. Check back for more info.

GCOM and PHOTO Club students on Good Day Sacramento (VIDEO)

gcomdre — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:59:03 +0000

GCOM Clubber Lori Llanillo and Kevin Fiscus from the PHOTO Club were featured on Good Day Sacramento yesterday. They are creating Got Milk? ads featuring Julissa Ortiz, Tina Macua and Mark S. Allen of the show for their joint projects in the GCOM/PHOTO 490 class.

Just another reason to join the class next semester … you get recognized!

See the video below and see the photos on the Good Day Blog here.

Typography Love

jweb — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:26:15 +0000

Ilovetypography has launched a new site welovetypography.com

You’ll love it to0.

T-Shirt Contest Sites

el_presidente — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:56:24 +0000

{designs featured at DesignByHumans.com}

T-Shirt contest sites are a great way to put your graphic design and illustration techniques to use in order to win cash prizes. It also can award you free T-shirts.

Usually T-shirt contests sites have you submit a design using their template, at which point viewers of the website can vote to choose which designs they like best. If your design is chosen you typically win a cash prize. Some of the sites offer very generous awards.

Once you get the hang of what people like, and you find a good way to promote your design, you can make some serious bucks off these sites! Just be ready for some stiff competition because some of the best illustrators around submit to these T-shirt contest sites!

Threadless.com

DesignByHumans.com

Allmightys.com

Inspiration: Graphic Design Everyday

el_presidente — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:36:46 +0000

His name is Julien van Havere and he is a self-taught graphic designer living in Brussells. Sevendaysmakeaweek.com is home to his daily exercise where everyday he posts daily findings of graphic design that examples a weekly theme. He states that this exercise exists to help him develop his creativity everyday. He publishes his findings in a blog-like setting to increase his creativity and personal accountability, and to share with you.

Try this exercise on your own accord. Get inspired! Explore these other sites like Sevendaysmakeaweek to expose yourself to fresh designs everyday.

After School Special: Advice for Emerging Designers

el_presidente — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:07:42 +0000

In the beginning of a career, the transition from school to work is difficult. Lynda Decker of Decker Design offers this advice.

Building a career is not something that happens overnight. It requires patience and tenacity, and it involves more than raw talent. A career demands an overarching curiosity about the world and how things work, topped off with well-honed people skills. To rise to the top in your profession, you have to have the guts to be self-aware, to know your own strengths while trying to improve upon your weaknesses. And, come to think of it, raw talent doesn’t hurt.

In the beginning of a career, the transition from school to work is difficult, to put it mildly. The first thing you learn is that there is more to learn. A lot more.

Continue to the After School Special (PDF)