San Diego City College Graphic Design
| Type | Public community college |
|---|---|
Academic staff | 15 |
| Students | 400 |
| Location | , , United States |
| Campus | Urban, 60 acres (24 ha) |
| Website | www.sdcc.gd |
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The graphic design program at San Diego City College has a focus on design thinking, mentoring successful designers who often use their work for public good.[4] The two-year community college design program is located in downtown San Diego and is part of the California Community College System. San Diego City College is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). San Diego City College Graphic Design is located in Downtown San Diego. The graphic design program, studios and labs are in the Arts and Humanities building at the corner of 16th Avenue and C Streets on the campus, adjacent to Balboa Park.[5]
City Studio[edit]
City Studio regularly partners with non-profits and industry, giving students real world experience prior to graduation. In 2017, City Studio collaborated with the technology company Qualcomm to develop and install environmental graphics on six floors of the main research and development facility.[6] In client meetings, students discussed design ideas and concepts with marketing teams and scientists to initiate the creative process. [7] The Great Minds series includes three-dimensional insights, portraits, handwritten formulas and notes from inventors Jagadish Chandra Bose, Albert Einstein, Grace Hopper, Katherine Johnson, Claude Shannon and Nicola Tesla. The portraits are presented in their early years before the inventors rise to recognizable genius. [8]
In 2018, City Studio collaborated with the San Diego International Airport to generate new monument signage, shuttle bus graphics and concession advertising. The conceptual designs were crafted into three-dimensional models for an exhibition displayed in Terminal 2.[9]
Global Competencies[edit]
City students have participated in design study abroad experiences in Italy, Mexico, Spain and Switzerland to foster awareness and knowledge of international issues.[10] They participate in projects that involve collaboration to address issues locally and abroad, to think in a global way. [11]In 2014, SDCC graphic design adopted an economically challenged medieval hilltop village in Italy, called Radicondoli. Using Skype they interviewed civic leaders and residents to develop branding strategy. Advanced students then created a marketing campaign highlighting the town’s farm to table culture, geothermal museum, rich music and art traditions through identity designs, websites, sustainable produce packaging and graphic applications that promoted local pride. [12]
Community[edit]
In 1998, San Diego City College graphic design professor, Candice López, established the American Institute of Graphic Arts San Diego Link program. The Link program provides support and inspiration for teens with artistic abilities but challenged by difficult home and school lives. The program is funded by a grant, providing free classes to high school students. Teens attend workshops taught by practicing professionals, take field trips to studios and educational institutions, receive peer mentoring by college design students and secure scholarships to study design in college, based on portfolio.[13]
San Diego City College graphic design students worked to build the Urban Art Trail in the East Village of San Diego. The project, which began in 1998 includes painted electrical utility boxes,[14] large scale murals, sidewalk poetry, mosaics and street sculpture. [15]Community projects like the neighborhood art used in the Urban Art Trail bring diverse people together.[16] In 2017, a children’s picture book called Maybe Something Beautiful based on the Urban Art Trail and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt won the Tomás Rivera Book Award.[17]
Graphic design students in the program create exhibitions designed to build community. Voices: Honoring Veterans, featured large-scale black and white portraits of local veterans, some who were City College students and served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. The exhibition also included original drawings, paintings and memorabilia from World War II correspondent and acclaimed illustrator Carol Johnson. Johnson was the illustrator of a book by Ernie Pyle “Here is your War” and worked as an artist for News Enterprises Association, documenting combat with hand-drawn illustrations from the North African campaign. The daily drawings he sent back were published in newspapers around the country giving the public first-hand experience of the war.[18]San Diego City College achieved the military-friendly designation awarded to colleges that embrace veterans, active-duty military and their dependents, providing resources to ensure their success in the classroom and after graduation.[19]
Dialogues: Poster Art of the Soviet Union, featured rare, historical posters focused on political themes, social issues and the arts from the periods of Perestroika and Glasnost.[20]The exhibition created by San Diego City College design students featured historical Soviet posters, along with new works by contemporary artists, designers and illustrators focused on the relationship between Russia and the United States, creating a dialogue between events past and present. The opening at the City Gallery featured dancers and actors in Russian costumes who interacted with the works. [21]
Notable Alumni[edit]
Alumni of San Diego City College are among the highest paid two-year college graduates in the United States and the college ranked second nationally mid-career.[22]
San Diego City College graphic design notable alumni include:
- Josh Higgins, an executive creative director at Facebook who served as design director of President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Over his successful career, Higgins has continued to donate his strategic conceptual thinking and design talent to social and relief projects such as the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina and the Southern California Fire Disaster Relief project. Higgins stated that the program changed his life both by giving him the tools and skills for a career in the field while helping him understand the importance of community. He felt driven to use design to drive positive impact in that community.[23] The designer whose work is featured in many publications and regularly speaks around the country at conferences found the graphic design program at San Diego City College inspiring and for the first time in his life got excited about school.[24]
- Chris Do, Emmy award-winning designer[25]got his start at San Diego City College Graphic Design. [26]He oversees the creative and strategic direction of Blind in Los Angeles and started the very successful podcast The Futur where he shares his 21 years of knowledge on business, branding, design and the user experience.[27]
References[edit]
- ↑ "California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office – Data Mart". Datamart.cccco.edu. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
- ↑ "Administration Directory". San Diego City College. Archived from the original on 29 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ "2016-2017 Report to the Community" (PDF). San Diego City College. Spring 2017. pp. 16–17, 24, 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ Wong, Ray. "Student who helped fire victims now heading Obama design team". East County Times. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "Orchids and Onions". San Diego Architectural Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ {{cite web|title= City Studio x Qualcomm 2017 Time Lapse|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=2y8zvZcOxvE
- ↑ {{cite web|title= KUSI SD San Diego City College students hold unveiling for art project|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7wTwXC70U
- ↑ "San Diego City College Students bring their Art to Qualcomm Research Center". Qualcomm. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "City College Graphic Design program Inspires Creativity". San Diego Community College District News Center. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Candice López, 2009 AIGA Fellow". American Institute of Graphic Arts. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "Living the Design Life, Looking Toward the Future". Idea District. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ Miriello, Ron. "San Diego Design Students embrace Tiny Radicondoli". Italian Ways. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ Peterson, Carla. "Drawing Joy from the Art of Mentoring". The San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ Powell, Gail. "Utility Box Art, a colorful antidote to urban blight!". CNN. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ Schinto, Jeanne. "Fearless below Market". Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Interview with Candice López". Maybe Something Beautiful. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Tomás Rivera Book Award 2017 Award Winners". Texas State University. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Wrath, Gary. "City College focus on veterans with Voices exhibit". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "District Colleges again honored as military friendly". SD Voice. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Dialogues: Poster Art of the Soviet Union". KPBS. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Dialogues: Art of the Soviet Poster Exhibition". Poster Poster. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "City College Grads Average Near $71K at Midcareer". Times of San Diego. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ Carpenter, Evie. "Josh Higgins on his work for Obama, inspiration and changing the world through design". Phoenix Times. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "SD City College ranks No. 2 on list of highest paid grads". Fox 5 San Diego. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "Emmy Winning designer Chris Do goes Steampunk for the Raveonettes". Studio Daily. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "Chris Do, Author at Blind". Blind. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "The Futur - YouTube". The Futur. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
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