GCOM faculty speaking at PechaKucha

Profs Robyn Waxman, Don Button, and Aaron Winters will be speaking this Saturday at a the final night of a 3-night PechaKucha marathon. November 7, 8:20pm at the MARRS Building at 20th & J.

What is PechaKucha? Good Question. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.

Robyn will be presenting her FARM Master's Thesis project, Don will be telling the history of public skateparks in Sac, and Aaron will be doing something cool featuring his own work.

And it's FREE,

For all the info on the 3-night event, go here and click on the dates on the right: http://pecha-kucha.org/night/sacramento/newsletters/990

GCOM and PHOTO Club students on Good Day Sacramento

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 here and see the photos on the Good Day Blog here.

Outreach Cover photos for West Sac

If you are creating a design for the West Sacramento Outreach schedule cover, it has now been decided that the cover should include a primary image of the new building.

HERE are some images of the new building you can download.

You can use these photos for reference OR you can use the large rendering as is OR adapt or stylize the rendering to fit your design.

Call for Outreach Schedule Designs

This is your chance to get a published and printed design for your portfolio. All GCOM students are welcome to submit designs.

Sacramento City College’s Davis and West Sacramento Outreach Centers need your design and artistic skills (The Downtown center is closing). Using Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Modo, create a cover concept or illustration for one of the outreach location's Spring 2010 class schedule and submit it for consideration by Friday, October 30.

Each cover needs to follow a specific theme. All the important details are on THIS FLYER (click to download), which is also posted in the Design Lab and T-100 classroom.

You can also see examples of past student-designed published covers HERE.

For West Sacramento, HERE are some images of the new building you can download.

You can use these for reference, use the large rendering as is, or adapt the rendering to your design.

Any questions about this can be directed to Don at buttond@scc.losrios.edu or Tom at cappelt@scc.losrios.edu

Better Signs of Trouble?

Graphic designers’ ideas for an improved terrorism alert system. Check out this link at The New York Times website for a VERY interesting slideshow from some very notable designers. Interesting and insightful, and yes, a bit tongue-in-cheek too.

Paul Rand stated, a designer's job is to manipulate form and content...content is the idea, and form is what you do with this idea.

My thoughts: Was this really a good idea at all? The entire idea may be flawed.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/09/opinion/13opart.html

Get your Infographic on

If you don't love Infographics, you should. And here's your chance to take a stab at one—design one portraying CEO compensation, do it well, win some cash and get recognized. For more info visit the GOOD Magazine Blog.

GCOM Club: Projects you'll want to design, Be featured in a Second Sat Show

If you're still looking for a class and have already taken at least two of the Beginning GCOM classes (313, 330, 340, 360 or 400), enroll in GCOM 490: GCOM Studio + Club.

This class is like no other in the department. You will be working on real projects that will give you branding, advertising and marketing experience. Not to mention that you'll be teaming up with a PHOTO student to design your own advertising campaign that will be featured in a January Second Saturday Show.

Contact Andrea Diaz-Vaughn at gcomdre@gmail.com for more information, come by T100 on Mondays/Wednesdays at 3pm or in enroll in GCOM 490 today.