Graphic Communications at CMCC

07/12/2024

Ready to learn about the process of designing art for analog games?

Join us in a one-day camp experience in the Graphic Communications department at CMCC to explore the process of designing analog games.

This is a hands-on learning experience to develop game rules, storyboards and related game assets for a 2D analog game, which may be selected to be played at the end of the camp experience by all the camp attendees! Each camp participant will also receive a 2024 CMCC Summer Program t-shirt!

To register, go to:
https://cmconnect.cmcc.edu/ICS/Students/Summer_Camp_Registration.jnz?portlet=J1_FormFlow_-_Forms&screen=FormView&form=3b8efb9a-3fd6-473f-a1d7-36afcd204151

To learn more about CMCC’s summer camps:
https://www.cmcc.edu/summer-college-aspiration-programs/

*Thank you GRC student Maia Ciszkowski for staging and capturing the photo in the digital ad, and for creating the page layout for this digital ad using Adobe InDesign and referring to Adobe Express to acquire the dimensions/ratio! Excellent!

*Thank you GRC student Austin Bouchard for producing templates in Adobe Illustrator based on the game kits that the GRC department purchased for participants to this summer camp, and for designing a creative, fun game in Adobe Illustrator as a sample for the camp! Nice work! (Stay tuned for a post soon for a at Austin’s COOL NEW game!! Austin has been ENCOURAGED to showcase it at CMCC’s Fall Open House and/or at next Spring’s GRC Student Portfolio Exhibit and/or at CMCC‘s next Academic Showcase!)

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04/29/2024

The GRC department at CMCC is getting ready for the annual Spring Student Portfolio Exhibit...

Harley Spencer created the visuals in this post’s visual (right lines) using Adobe Illustrator and edited in Photoshop replacing the transparent background with a black rectangle. The visual (left red lines) were created using shape tools in Adobe Illustrator, and white rectangles and the overall post were created in Canva. The fonts used were Awesome Lathusca, Cinzel Decorative, Times New Roman, and Canva Sans.

02/20/2024

Calling all GRC Alumni who are interested in potentially contributing in the near future to content for CMCC’s Marketing Dept…

If interested, please email the GRC department chairperson asap. Their contact information can be located via: https://www.cmcc.edu/discover-cmcc/our-campus/campus-directory/

10/10/2023

GRC Student Employee Melanie Alt recently conveyed:
• Do you need help prioritizing your work?
• Do you need help managing your time?
• Check out Graphic Communications at CMCC's Tuesday Tips and Tricks and this article:

Productive teams spend less time on work about work. Get tips to effectively prioritize, execute, and hit your goals—every time.

06/16/2023

Heads-up!!

GRC graduate Kyle Knowlan & partner, Zack Beaulieu have a NEW business called Wildwood Inkworks! (See their two sides of their business card attached; so cool!)

They are debuting for the FIRST time 2-3 designs in TONIGHT's Friday ArtWalk -
in Biddeford!

"The Biddeford ArtWalk on Main Street (and Washington Street) is a free event celebrating local arts and creativity happening from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the third Friday of the month from May through October." For more info: https://facebook.com/events/s/biddeford-artwalk/1606444936490817/

Celebrate and support Maine's art community AND a GRC graduate!

02/14/2023

Several Graphic Communications students are taking their scaled rough drafts of the logo marks that they have developed thus far and creating them in Adobe Illustrator. Using these vector files, the GRC students are exploring Spot Colors based on their client's interview and their extensive research into their client's ST and LT needs/goals, competition, color personality, typography, etc.

After applying PMS hues to their vector logo files, the GRC students will be documenting the equivalent CMYK, RGB, BW, and Hex codes for their logo files as well. This is just ONE of the steps in the development of the Branding Identity Design Project in the Graphic Communications Program at CMCC. Take a peek at Autumn Abraham's exploration of PMS hues for Dil & Huss!

For Tips & Tricks Tuesday, if YOU would like to learn more about branding, click the link!!
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/branding

02/04/2023

What does the Graphic Communications Department Chairperson do on one of the COLDEST days of the year?

Drive to Rockland, Maine to pick up supplies for the GRC Department. -11, -14, -15…

Can you say frostbite?

I can’t! Shivering… too… much… mmmmrrr!!

01/31/2023

Happy Tips & Tricks Tuesday!

Practice your skills at selecting and isolating subjects in nondestructive ways with this fun Photoshop tutorial! It showcases a few of the skills that GRC students are getting ready to apply to their Photo Fix Projects and the upcoming Photo Fun Project!

Photoshop capabilities are endless, and it's not just for the pros. Unsure exactly of what those possibilities include? The answer is infinite, but let’s start with five.

01/10/2023

Tips and Tricks Tuesday!
Follow this link to learn more about applying sharpness (increasing definition, intensity, acuity, editing the focus, the depth of field, etc.) using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, your DSLR with its varied settings, and/or your smart device, etc.

Want an opportunity to learn related skills and practice them? There are seats still available in...
• GRC 118 Introduction to Digital Photography (This is also a fine arts general studies elective
• GRC 176 Photoshop 1, and GRC 276 Photoshop 2

Contact the Learning and Advising Center or your GRC Academic Advisor today to get registered!!
Happy Tuesday! Ready for a Tip or Trick?

Whether you're photographing on a smartphone or DSLR/mirrorless camera, mastering photo sharpness can be tricky when you first start out. Here are a few ways you can obtain sharper images.

01/01/2023

Happy New Year from the Graphic Communications Department at CMCC! Here's to 2023!!
(Yay!! Happy day!! Scrabble and All Caps Characters and Sans Serif—Oh My!)