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, West Sac and Downtown Outreach Centers need your design and artistic skills. Using Photoshop and/or Illustrator, create a cover concept or illustration for one of the outreach location's Summer/Fall 2009 class schedule and submit it for consideration by Monday, MARCH 23.

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 Mac Lab and T-100 classroom.

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

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

The Future of Computer Animation

As many of you know, the Oscars were held this past weekend and the award for Outstanding Visual Effects was presented to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  Check out this amazing behind the scenes look on how Digital Domain created the visual effects and animation for these ground-breaking shots.  

Check out the Design Guy Podcasts

The Design Guy is now up to 36 podcasts! Check them out and even subscribe to the iTunes podcast here.

This may be the best creative podcast, period. Nuggets of wisdom, brief, to-the-point, and spot on. All students and aspiring designers in any field would do well to subscribe to these free audio gems, and listen!

"The show that explores timeless design principles and explains them simply. We discuss graphic design in particular, and design in general, to equip you with lessons in process, inspiration, and practice. Get a new concept under your belt in mere minutes and unleash your creativity."

Clear and Effective Communication in Web Design

Smashing Magazine has a nice article on creating clear and effective web designs, with some great examples.

From the article:

Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of websites are affected by the need for good communication in one way or another. Regardless of whether the website in question is an e-commerce website, a blog, a portfolio website, an information website for a service company, a government website or any other type of website, there is a significant need to communicate effectively with visitors. 

[read more @ smashingmagazine.com]