Graphic Arts at Laney College

02/24/2025

02/18/2025

Posters for the CTE Open Hous event designed by the graphic arts students in Daniela Nikaoleva's classes

01/30/2025

Cool new class. You can still enroll in it!

NEW CLASS: GRART 152 Graphic is Motion. You can still enroll in this class!
GRART 152 Graphics in Motion 2 is a late-start class and runs for 14 weeks only. You can learn video editing and animation concepts with focus on graphic design! Video is everywhere nowadays, so this is an important skill to learn. It is part of the Animation Certificate at Graphic Arts.
The class has a prerequisite, but your instructor can wave it by signing the challenge form.

Instructor: David Santamaria.
[email protected]

01/30/2025

NEW CLASS: GRART 152 Graphic is Motion. You can still enroll in this class!
GRART 152 Graphics in Motion 2 is a late-start class and runs for 14 weeks only. You can learn video editing and animation concepts with focus on graphic design! Video is everywhere nowadays, so this is an important skill to learn. It is part of the Animation Certificate at Graphic Arts.
The class has a prerequisite, but your instructor can wave it by signing the challenge form.

Instructor: David Santamaria.
[email protected]

10/02/2024

Dear Students,

We are excited to announce that the Peralta Colleges Foundation is offering the 2024/2025 PepsiCo Uplift Scholarship, providing a total of $172,500 in funding to support 70 underserved students across Laney College, Merritt College, College of Alameda, and Berkeley City College.

This scholarship is aimed at students pursuing fields aligned with PepsiCo Foundation’s business model: MAKE, MOVE, and SELL. The award provides an average of $2,000 per student, depending on the specific certificate or degree program.

This is a fantastic opportunity to receive essential financial and mentoring support to help you access resources and academic assistance for upward mobility!

Eligibility Requirements:

Must be classified as an underserved student by your college
Pell Grant-eligible or low-income
First-generation college student
The deadline for applications is October 15, 2024, at 11:59 PM.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Mashariki White at [email protected]

APPLY TODAY!
PepsiCo Uplift Scholarship
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08/29/2024

Learn about color theory and practices, and the secrets of using successful color combinations. Learn about the psychology, science, and artistry of color. Offered asynchronously online for Laney College. GRART 122 Applied Graphic Design. , , , , ,
Class starts 09/13/24.

08/29/2024

Join Instructor Otto Lai on a journey into the world of Animation. Learn to draw for animation using the essential principles of animation. No experience is necessary. The class prepares you for animation courses GRART 151, 152, and 43 that teach Motion Graphic Design using professional animation software. Earn an animation certificate of achievement by taking all 4.

08/29/2024

Learn the fundamentals of 2D digital animation, build motion graphic projects through hands-on exercises using Adobe After Effects and Animate. Learn and utilize design and animation principles and best practices for creating graphics in motion. A required class for the animation certificate. , , ,

05/23/2024

Dear students, take a look at this letter. If you are interested in this, contact the sender:

"As you know, BART has been a part of the Bay Area for over 50 years. We try hard to reach out to the community around us when we have needs. One need for us is design talent.

We have a website called Railgoods on which we sell BART-branded and transit-oriented items. We do not have enough design talent to keep the flow of fresh items going to the site. It would be great to come up with a way to work with students on various projects which would end up being sold on our site and at our special events. One of the main values to us would be driving more traffic to our site by having a more steady stream of interesting items even if any 1 item doesn't sell a lot of units.

From a project stand point, it would be a good way for students to learn about designing with an objective in mind or what would happen if they are working for a client. Anything we do would have a list of criteria that would have to be met versus just wanting a free form expression from the students. The winning design would need to stand out from a design stand point but also stand out because it met the needs of the client.

We can offer a monetary incentive to the student. The reality is the sales volume from any 1 item will never be very large. Plus, drafting a new agreement for a revenue stream for every student whose design we choose would probably be cost- and time-prohibitive. That's why we have thought that doing any project as a contest. A dollar prize will recognize the 1 or 2 "best" designs and most likely pay out the same or bigger amount than what a revenue stream would generate anyway. The size of the prize might vary based on how regularly we do this project. Quarterly would let us target the various seasons and also have a new project for the students on a regular basis.

The other benefit to us would be having the ability to do more testing of new designs. Without having a high design cost, we can do a run of 50 items, get reaction and then order more if it is a hit. If it fails to get any results then we can easily move on without having lost much (which is important for an organization that gets a lot of public scrutiny about its spending).

This is just an idea at this point, but we would love to at least test the idea at some point soon.

Thank you.

Will

William Hecht

Acting-Director, Customer Services

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART)
2150 Webster St., 9th floor | Oakland, CA 94612 "

Office: 510.287.4918 | Cell: 415.420.9348

04/30/2024

Getting ready for the CTE Open house event.

04/29/2024

We had a very successful event. My Photoshop Workshop was a big hit!

04/29/2024

Graphic Arts at Laney College is ready for the CTE Open House event! Sat. 04/27!