Department of Graphic Communications

Clemson GC Students Attend 2015 Color Conference

Written by Dalton Anderson What do students, faculty, color scientists, and large companies within the print and graphics industry have in common? Well each year, they all grab a few cups of coffee, load up their suitcases, and make their way to the Color Conference hosted by the Printing Industries of America, or PIA for […]

Clemson/Sonoco packaging-industry analysis truly outside the box

What does a $400-billion industry and Clemson University have in common? The answer is the students and faculty of Clemson’s Sonoco Institute for Packaging Design and Graphics, which the worldwide packaging industry considers among the best evaluators of consumer perception around product packaging. So esteemed is Clemson’s level of expertise in measuring consumers’ packaging perceptions, […]

ClemsonGC Attends 2015 SGIA Expo

Written by Jessica Johnson, Edited by Dr. Charles Weiss Every year, industry partners, faculty, and students pack their bags and venture from all over the United States to the annual expo held by the Specialty Graphics Imaging Association, better known as SGIA. The 2015 SGIA Expo was held in Atlanta, Georgia, just a little over […]

Delving into Portraiture: GC Faculty Photos Project

Written by Anna Mallard This semester when tasked with an extra project for GC 3400 Digital Imaging and eMedia, I knew that I wanted to complete a project in an area that interested me. Coincidentally, this course contains a segment on photography, a hobby that I have enjoyed for several years and now get to […]

Homecoming 2015: There’s Something In These Halls

Additional photos from the event! Written by Jessica Johnson, Graduate Student, Class of 2016 Clemson University has experienced immense growth in size and scope since first established over 126 years ago. Beginning as a small military college, Clemson University has become a top national university and institution of higher learning that has been forever impacted […]

U.S. grant for printed electronics could be boon for Clemson, region

Imagine bandages that detect infections, flexible paper light bulbs that screw into a light socket or food containers that notify you of an allergen inside. Now imagine all of this technology is created on a printing press and that Clemson University is on the cusp of helping bring it to mainstream America. Those technologies and […]

Computers & Writing Conference 2015: A Student Perspective

Written by Kelsey Worthington, GC Undergrad Student GC Special Projects In summer Mini-semester A, Mr. Jacobs offered the first GC2510 special projects course. This course was intended to introduce students to the unique challenges of designing and implementing training workshops. It is fairly common for graduates of the GC program to do some form of […]

ClemsonGC Takes on Front End Design Conference 2015

Reflections provided by Claudia Giles and Megan Matthews, GC students Edited by Erica Walker, lecturer The Front End Design Conference, hosted every summer in St. Petersburg, FL provides students with an opportunity to learn far more than simply coding skills. This year, ClemsonGC’s third year attending the conference, Mrs. Erica Walker brought students Claudia Giles, […]