Department of Graphic Communications

The Godfrey’s: Basketball Edition Promotional Videos

Written by Erica Walker, lecturer In GC3400 class this semester, students had the unique opportunity to experience real-world video production. When it comes to lab assignments, I find that students, like everyone really, fear things that are not controlled or controllable. Due to it’s nature, video production has more unknown factors, more moving parts than […]

Hello, My Name Is Godfrey.

Photography by Lisa Car, GC Undergraduate and Erica Walker, GC Faculty Slide show! Written by Jason Palmer, GC Graduate Student There are three certainties in football: a Clemson University win, an opponent loss, and Homecoming. Being a part of numerous Homecomings, I’ve seen it all. But, basically it’s a swarm of people celebrating the return […]

From producer to educator: graphic communication’s Erica Walker

Dustin Wilson, College of Business and Behavioral Science, September 14, 2013 “The print industry is definitely not dead,” claims Erica Walker, lecturer in graphic communications and professional cinematographer. “The industry is rapidly changing and moving beyond just traditional products by offering cross-media marketing services in order to better serve clients,” says Walker. Walker points out that printing companies […]

Over 50 students attend PRINT 13 in Chicago

Studying in the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson has its distinct advantages. Just ask students who’ve attained the junior/senior level of Graphic Communications and attended the recent student trip to the PRINT’13 exposition in Chicago, September 7-9. At the event, GC students had the opportunity to travel and experience with the current […]

Graphic Design for a Global Marketplace

Slide Show! Last May, a small group of Clemson students – both graduate and undergraduate – took part in the first study abroad class in the department’s history; Graphic Design for a Global Marketplace. The concept was for students to study in the world capital of London, England and get a feel for how packaging […]

#frontendconf 2013: Student David Platt

Front End Design Conference I went to St. Petersburg, Florida last week for this conference. Being the first front-end conference I’d been to, I had no clue what to expect, but I came away from it with a few things: a greater appreciation for the industry as a whole a bunch of new contacts in […]

Godfrey gets an update

New Lithography Presses Installed in the Basic Lab In late February, the Basic Lab’s printing capacity increased with the addition of a Ryobi 3302M, 2-color lithography press. Although this press is not typically used in production in the US printing industry today, it serves as a great training tool for students learning the fundamental processes […]

Nano Print Plus

What is your present role in the University? I taught high school for 18 years before I came to Clemson University. I got interested in graphics in 1967 when I got a job as a photographer and lab manager with a local newspaper in the Washington DC area. I am one of 10 instructors in […]

Max Daetwyler Corporation donates gravure cylinder engraver

Daetwyler installed a Gravostar electromechanical gravure cylinder engraver at Clemson University the beginning of the spring semester. This is the first time Clemson’s graphic communications program has had the direct ability to engrave cylinders. The faculty is excited to have students learn first hand the engraving process and quality control procedures for electromechanical engraving. Department […]