Department of Graphic Communications

Graduation Reception, December 2022

Last night, faculty and staff welcomed graduating seniors and their parents to celebrate their impending graduation. Each semester, the receptions are planned and executed by graduating seniors from Dr. Tonkin’s Senior Seminar course. This year’s reception was planned by Bransen Dias, Laura Perry, Mallory Colwell, and Tori Sprinkle. Bransen also designed and produced the annual yearbook. This group of graduates […]

Graduation reception, May 2022

Godfrey Hall welcomed graduating seniors and their parents to join faculty and staff to celebrate the evening before graduation. Each semester, the receptions are planned and executed by graduating seniors from Dr. Tonkin’s Senior Seminar course. This year’s reception was planned by Trey Bowe, Andalis Burton, and Cati Beth Ridgeway. This group of graduates celebrated with […]

Graduation reception, December 2021

For the first time since COVID, Godfrey Hall welcomed graduating seniors and their parents to join faculty and staff in the evening before graduation. Although smaller scale events happened during 2020 and early 2021, this was the first time the event was back to full scale. Each semester, the receptions are planned and executed by graduating […]

ClemsonGC students attend Color 2020

Written by Jake Dahill, Class of 2020 The COLOR20 Conference in San Diego provided insight into the new ways the printing and visual communications industry is implementing color management and reproduction into our everyday lives. This may sound hard to believe when you commonly hear that “print is dying”, but in reality it is just […]

Graduation reception, December 2019

Each semester, graduating seniors and their parents are invited to join faculty and staff in Godfrey Hall the evening before their graduation. This year the festive holiday-themed event was held in the new Faculty offices in Godfrey. As faculty and staff, we love the end of semester events because it is a chance to celebrate […]

ClemsonGC student attends Forbes CMO Summit in California

Written by Caroline Schoenberger, Class of ‘20 This year Forbes hosted it’s 15th annual Forbes CMO Summit. This is an event in which Forbes invites the most influential and innovative Chief Marketing Officers to gather in the same room to discuss accomplishments, struggles, ideas, and the evolution of the ever-important CMO role. For the first time ever, […]

Meet Dr. Blue!

Written by Emily Algary, Class of 2019 Born and raised only a state away in North Carolina, Dr. Carl Blue is one of Graphic Communications newest members of staff. Dr. Blue brings years of experience with him in different parts of the graphics industry, and we are very excited to see what he will bring […]

ClemsonGC students get Behind-the-Scenes tour at AdobeMAX

Written by Julia Pruitt, class of 2021 On November 3 through November 7, four Clemson Graphic Communications students and two faculty members had the experience of a lifetime at AdobeMAX in Los Angeles, CA. Adobe hosts The Creativity Conference every year, and this year, Julia Pruitt, Emily Algary, Emily Smith, Bethany Wheeler, Dr. Erica Walker, […]

Welcome to ClemsonGC, Dr. Bridges!

Written by Caroline Schoenberger, class of 2020 We are happy to welcome one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Amanda Bridges. Dr. Bridges comes from Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina to join the Clemson GC team. With her arrival, Bridges brings a well-rounded knowledge of the graphic communications industry and years of experience teaching in the […]

Printing United Convention: October 23rd – 25th, 2019

On Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019, a group of nine Clemson University students, along with two Clemson GC faculty members, boarded an airplane that was destined for Dallas, TX. This year, PRINTING United, a brand-new trade show by SGIA was held in Dallas. The trade show provided insight into the latest printing technologies and a glimpse […]

ClemsonGC upperclassmen attend the last PRINT19 in Chicago

On October 2nd, nine upperclassmen Graphic Communications students, along with Dr. Weiss and Dr. Weisenmiller, departed Clemson and traveled up to Chicago for Print19 (https://www.printtechnologies.org/PRINT19/). For many years, the Department of Graphic Communications has had a presence at Print19, but this year was a little bit more special; it was the last year the conference […]

We Are All Tigers

Written by: Alyssa Pittman, Megan Smith, & Sydney Thompson (all are class of 2021) When we signed up to take GC 3400 with Dr. Walker this summer, we had no idea that we would be given a major opportunity to contribute to helping make an impact for endangered tigers in the wild. We had the […]

ClemsonGC attends Front End Design Conference for the 6th year in a row

Last week seven of Clemson’s Graphic Communication students had the opportunity to attend the Front End Design Conference (FEDC) in St. Petersburg, FL. The annual conference is an event for web professionals who love their community, the web, and learning.  Along with assistant professor Dr. Erica Walker and lecturer Daryl Stevens, students gained valuable insights […]

Graduation Reception, May 2019

Each semester, graduating seniors and their parents are invited to join faculty and staff in Godfrey Hall the evening before their graduation. As faculty and staff, we love the end of semester events because it is a chance to celebrate our graduating Seniors and meet their families the night before they walk across the stage […]

ClemsonGC wins Attendee’s Choice and Production Quality Award at TAGA

Written by James Weaver, class of 2020 Clemson’s Student Chapter of the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts got to see the reward of their hard work the past year by attending the 2019 TAGA conference. Held in Minneapolis, Minnesota this year, students attending the conference heard a range of great speakers covering a wide […]