Brainstorm student winners announced!

The Brainstorm event was a great success. The department displayed nearly 300 pieces of student work and the show was attended by an estimated 150 students and guests.

Congratulations to our faculty curated winning designs:

Best of Show: "D'lish branding design" by Charles Henderson
Gold Award: "I love Meat" book design by Anna Cisneros
Silver Award: "Jungle" video game design by Nick Williams
Bronze Award: "Type Poem" poster by Nellie Coats

And our student-submitted "Non-Class work" winner:
"Japan 2011" commemorative poster by Lori Llanillo

See you all next Fall!

            —your GCOM faculty

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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!!

GCOM students win 5 awards

The Sacramento City College Express newspaper — both print and Web versions — garnered an impressive 15 awards at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges NorCal regional conference held in San Jose Nov. 7, 2009.

Page designers, GCOM students who lay out the Express pages and design graphics as part of Don Button’s GCOM 319 course, won top awards. Designer Bill Smith won two second place awards for Informational Graphics and Inside Page Layout, and two Honorable Mention for Inside Page Layout and Photo Illustration. GCOM student Thanh Nguyen won an Honorable Mention for Photo Illustration. The entire design staff also shared an Honorable Mention for Front Page Layout.

On the editorial side, Journalism and Photography students won a total of 9 awards. The most prestigious, was General Excellence in Online Journalism for the SacCityExpress.com web site.

Congrats to everyone!