May 19: Brainstorm: The GCOM Design Showcase featuring the Animator's Ball

GCOM@SCC and the GCOM Club present Brainstorm: the 2008-2009 Design Showcase featuring the Animator's Ball.

Stop by to view all the award-winning Student Design Competition entries and see which design will pick up "Student Design of the Year" and the "Popular Choice Award" during the Awards Reception. You will hear more about the competition next week so stay tuned.

Brainstorm will also feature an "Iron Chef-like" live design competition in which four students will be challenged to create a design in 30 minutes. There will actually be three different Show-off competitions: one for design, one for 3d modeling and one featuring faculty.

And don't miss out on the Animator's Ball showcasing the best animations from GCOM students and other local animation students.

Date: May 19, 2008
Time: 2-9pm
Location: SCC Student Center

Schedule (may be subject to change):
2pm Welcome
2:30pm 3D Show-off
3:15pm Faculty Show-off
4:00pm Design Show-off
5pm Student Design Awards/Reception
6:30pm Animation Guest speaker
7-9pm Animator's Ball

Contact gcomclub@gmail.com if you would like to participate in the Show-offs. Visit gcomclub.com or animatorsball.com for more info.

Little Red Riding Hood

Check this out! Awesome design and fantastic animation!

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

GCOM Field Trip to BKWLD April 17

All GCOM students are invited to join a field trip to BKWLD, a local interactive design agency on Friday, April 17th. The vans will leave the SCC campus at 2pm and return in the late afternoon.

Space is limited, so if you are interested in going, RSVP with the GCOM Club president Priscilla Garcia at 479-3878 or e-mail at gcomclub@gmail.com.

Graffiti Animation

Check this out! You will never see graffiti the same way again!


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Great event on campus this Thursday

The Cultural Awareness Center, International Studies Program & Staff Resource Center Present

ART AS POLITICAL COMMENTARY
Art, Identity & Social Justice

When: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12-1PM
Where: Cultural Awareness Center

Artists not only document social change; they promote, inform, and shape it. Whether through music, plays, paintings, songs, films, media, textiles, jewelry, photography, poetry, sculpture, spoken word, and dance – art is powerful.

For art is the intellectual underpinning of social change; and nowhere is there more potential and more need for art than here and now.

Join Artists:
Mitra Fabian, Richard Macias, Jose Montoya, Khali Keyi & Angela Alforque, with David Rasul as Moderator

As they discuss how art intersects with social change, justice, politics, healing, community organizing and activism.

Sketch-Up Contest

Google is sponsoring a 3D modeling competition! If you are a Sketch-Up user, and you should be :), make sure you check out this great event. Check out the official Google Sketch-Up Blog for more information.

Google Sketch-Up Blog

Fast Company's Masters of Design for 2008

A Dutch superstar, an unyielding architect, a force for good, a style soothsayer, a digital visionary and 71 perfect products. 

That’s what you’ll find here in Fast Company's fifth annual report on the intersection of business and design. 

Plus you'll also find slideshows, Masters of Design exclusive video, expert design blog, and an invitation to join the FastCompany.com Design Topic Group.

Check it out here: www.fastcompany.com/design/2008

Now Showing in the Lab - Maricela Alvarez

Artist Maricela Alvarez

SWARM

Journal material and foundational pieces

www.maricelaalvarez.com

February 23 through March 20