GCOM Student Design Award Winners Announced

Last night's Graphic-Con event was a truly fun and inspiring event. The talent on display, both in print and on over 20 Mac screens was amazing. The GC Club team deserves a big round of applause for their tireless effort to promote the GCOM department and all of it's talented and creative students.

The winners of the 2008 GCOM Student Design Awards were also announced. I don't have the names of the many silver award winners in the Print and Multimedia categories, but here are the names of the Gold winners and Best of Show winners:

Best of Show Award for Print: Taras Garcia
Best of Show Award for Multimedia: Daniel Moore
Best of Show People's Choice: Vitaliy Zavorotny

Gold Award Winners: Pricilla Garcia, Taras Garcia, Seth McComber, Daniel Moore, Vitaliy Zavorotny

Also, there was a very entertaining live design competition among faculty and students. Four designers were given a random set of images and two words, then pitted against each other in a 30 minute design death match. In the faculty bout, Robyn Waxman, Missy Anapolsky, Tom Cappelletti, and Don Button competed. Yours truly (Don) was voted the victor by the audience. Quite a comeback from my totally awful attempt last semester, if I do say so. In the student competition, Pricilla Garcia was voted the winner for her inspired take on political posters and "inflated" politicians.

Congrats to all the winners and participants, and thank you to all the sponsors and volunteers!

GCOM Design Contest expands entry options

You can now enter up to THREE designs in the 2008 GCOM Student Design Awards

Now you have the opportunity to be judged on three different designs in the GCOM Student Design Awards. That's right, you can enter the calendar from your 341 class, the web project you did in 361 and your project from the GC Studio + Club class (or whatever three projects you've created during this semester and last). Projects have to be created as an class or instructor assignment in either the Fall 2007 or Spring 2008 semester. The categories are: print design of the year and interactive/animated design of the year.

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Contact Andrea Diaz-Vaughn at 916.213.0450 or diazvaughn@gmail.com or Don Button at 916.396.1134 or buttond@scc.losrios.edu.

Did you design this year's best?

2008 GCOM Student Design Awards...

Presented by GCOM & the GC Club 

The 2008 Graphic Communication Student Design Awards will recognize the best student work of the 2007-2008 school year and are open to students enrolled in one or more graphic communication classes.

The competition has two categories: print design of the year and interactive design of the year. Entries will be judged on concept, design, execution, overall creativity and originality. 

The panel of judges will consist of designers, art directors and creative directors in the local industry. 

Submissions will be accepted on Tuesday, April 29, and the results will be announced at this year's GC Student Show: GraphicCon, Tuesday, May 6, at SCC's Student Center.

Entries will be accepted on Tuesday, April 29, between 4.30 and 8.00 pm in T100.

Questions? Contact Andrea Diaz-Vaughn at 916.213.0450 or diazvaughn@gmail.com or Don Button at 916.396.1134 or buttond@scc.losrios.edu.

GC Club plans end of semester show

The Graphic Communication Club will be presenting an End of the Year Show called "Graphi-Con" on Tuesday, May 6th, from 4-8pm in the Student Center.

More details to be announced soon.