Spring 2011 Outreach Cover Design Winners Announced!

Congratulations to GCOM students Karen Adams and Rich Palmer, winners of our Outreach Cover Design Contest for the Spring 2011 Semester. We had about 70 entries total, and Karen's composition was chosen for the Davis Center, and Rich's was chosen for the West Sacramento Center.

Rich relocated from Connecticut in the summer of 2008 and is currently a second semester, Music , Audio Production Major at the Sacramento City College Branch. He is an aspiring music engineer with the hopes of one day owning a Post Production and Multi Media Facility. Rich has a wide variety of interests such as graphic design, video editing, photography and music production.

Karen recently launched a small graphic design and communications business from her home in Davis. Her new pursuits build upon a 20-year journalism career that took her from newspapers in Southern California to the Washington Post and finally the Sacramento Bee. In 2006, she began taking classes at SCCʼs Graphic Communications Department, which gave her the skills and confidence to reshape her career. She can be reached through www.coffeebreakdesign.net, a website she created as a class project.

Robyn Waxman lecture -- Monday, Nov. 15

Hey students!

GCOM professor Robyn Waxman is doing a lecture for ADAC titled "The Next Generation of Design -- The F.A.R.M Story".

This lecture will be Monday, November 15 from 6-8 p.m. at AIA Central Valley Building, 1400 S Street, Sacramento.

Lecture description:
The Millennials (ages 18–30) are technologically savvy, participatory, positive, reluctant to criticize, and experiential. They have respect for the law and for authority, yet demand transparency and feel entitled. Many Millennials are interested in participating in sustainability movements, but... only in a manner that nurtures these sub-cultural nuances.

Design is experiencing a paradigm shift. Designers are experimenting with more interactive ways of engaging participatory culture and democratizing making. The methods in which design engages the world is expanding. My work seeks to examine the role of the next generation of designers in catalyzing their generation’s social and environmental movements.

The F.A.R.M story will serve as one way to rethink traditional activist mediums (the poster and the protest) and the role of the design activist, in an effort to more fully engage the next generation of design.

Q&A will follow after the lecture. Refreshments will be provided.

Admission is free for all ADAC members, $5 for the general public, $3 for non-member students.

If you are interested in joining ADAC, please come to the lecture and you can sign up for membership on the spot. Student membership is $29 yearly.

Hope to see you there!

Student Newspaper Designers Win First Place!

GCOM students, along with Journalism and Photography students at the Express student newspaper, won 8 top awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges NorCal conference this week.

The cover design work of student Victor Quintana, Casey Mar, and David Kitchell won First Place for Front Page Layout.

Mar also won a First Place for Advertisement design, and Kitchell also won a Third Place for Photo Illustration. GCOM student Lori Llanillo won a Second Place for Illustration and a Third place for Informational Graphic.

Both the print and Web versions of the Express shared General Excellence awards in their category, and the Journalism and Photography students won seven more awards, including two First Places.

Great work students!!