ADAC Kickoff Event: November 1

Hello?!

We’re here. Where are you?

What is the state of design in Sacramento?
How can we come together to make a stronger community?

We have some ideas. We want to hear yours.

Join us for an evening and lets see what we can come up with together. It’s time you became involved in a serious endeavor to connect, strengthen and promote design in this city.

This is a volunteer run organization. An organization rich in history and unique in accomplishment. The design community needs you to step up and help maintain this legacy as we forge into the future determined to make an impact.

We will be outlining a renewed vision for ADAC, present plans for the coming year, and provide you an opportunity to speak with us and each other about what we can accomplish together.

Refreshments will be provided.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Hello!? 11/1/10
Monday 6-8:30 p.m.

AIA Central Valley Building
1400 S Street, Sacramento

Email president@adac.org for more information.

You can also visit http://adac.org for more info.

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 and West Sacramento Outreach Centers need your design and artistic skills. Using Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Modo, create a cover concept or illustration for one of the outreach location's Spring 2011 class schedule and submit it for consideration by Friday, October 29.

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 Design 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

Vote for the new SCC logo (designed by the GCOM 490 class)

Attention students! You will be receiving a link via your iMail account today to an SCC Logo Survey. You will have until next Wednesday to give your feedback and choose the logo concept that you feel would best represent the school.

Though there is an official Sacramento City College (the scratchy logo below), there is no consistent use of the logo on any of the school's collateral. (The school's web site uses a different SCC logo on it's home page).


GCOM 490 was commissioned by President Jeffery to concept new logos for the Sacramento City College. They were designed and developed by current and former GCOM students Charles Henderson, Christie Garcia and Lori Llanillo. The GCOM 490 class will pick the project in the spring to begin work on phase two of the project that will include the design of collateral pieces and brand photography.

Here is a sneak peek at the logos on the survey.

Former GCOM 490 Student Update: Priscilla Garcia

Happy summer everyone!

Here's a quick update from one of GCOM's former star students. You may recognize her from her GCOM 330 tutoring days or when she was the GCOM Club's president. But Priscilla Garcia shares what she's doing now and how taking GCOM 490: The Graphic Communication Learning Studio helped her land a killer job at the Sacramento News & Review.

GCOM 490 will be offered this fall Mondays and Wednesdays from 1–3pm. Sign up today!

Name: Priscilla Garcia
Semesters enrolled in GCOM 490: Fall 2008 throught Fall 2009
Current professional status/occupation: Designer at the News & Review
Best thing about being a graphic designer: If you're going to spend 40 hours a week working, you might as well be doing what you love, and I love graphic design.
Lessons from GCOM 490: You don't get real-world experience in the other GCOM classes but GCOM 490 allowed me to experience the full process of working with a client, and also other designers and photographers. It's one thing to communicate graphically, but a professional designer must be able to communicate with their client, their photographer, and their collaborators. Plus, you can't turn in projects late like any other assignment. Working with clients helped me learn how to manage my time and set realistic deadlines.

I didn't feel confident with my portfolio. But taking GCOM 490 gave me to the opportunity to work on full-scale real-world projects and studio photography.

GCOM 490 taught me the importance of networking, it's not just what you know, its who you know! In my 3 semesters in 490 I met so many local professionals from different industries and through this class I was able to get an internship at SN&R. Before the summer was over, I was hired as an employee, not just because I was capable of the job, but because I was a motivated GCOM 490 student with professional references from my teachers.

Other GCOM classes/instructors that really propelled you: Missy's Graphic design production class helped me understand basic principals of design and the creative process

Super cool infographic

Check out this great (and very, very tall) INFOGRAPHIC showing the heights and depths of the planet Earth.

Avatar Days explores online avatars in the real world

Avatar Days from Piranha Bar on Vimeo.

Check out this great short using 3D and motion capture.

BRAINSTORM Today!

Swing by the Student Center TODAY to see the winners of the Student Design Awards and to witness the infamous Iron-Chef like competition, the Face-Offs. The goodness starts at 2pm. See the schedule below!

May 17, 2010

2pm - 7pm

SCC Student Center

Schedule

(may be subject to change)

2pm Welcome

3:00pm Student Graphic Design Face-off

• John Conley
• Brian Graham
• May Kim
• Slavic Palenyy

3:45pm Faculty Design Face-off

• Don Button
• Pat Crandley
• Jenn de la Fuente
• Chris Seddon
• Aaron Winters

4:30pm Student 3D Design Face-off

5:15pm Student Motion Design Face-off

6:00pm Student Design Awards/Reception

• See who and if anyone claims the top award in each category!