January 30, 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 […]
November 20, 2019
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, […]
January 25, 2019
Co-Written By: Riley McLeod, Lauren Robinson, and Makyya Johnson Looking back on our past four years at Clemson University, we could not be more thankful for the opportunities that have been afforded to us as students. One of the most recent opportunities we had was being attendees of the Color 19 Conference in San Diego, […]
December 6, 2018
Bryce Conti class of BS ’17 and MS ’19 Having studied at Clemson University for around six years I have encountered several different types of faculty who teach Graphic Communications. Each has their own passion and knowledge of which they hope to share with their students of a variety of topics, including printing, digital media, color. […]
November 6, 2017
Story and photography by Margaret Whiston, Mary Alexander, and Robert Myers AdobeMAX is a dream come true for creatives all over the world. The conference hosts numerous keynote speakers and sessions that inspire, encourage, and challenge you to learn new skills, experiment with different styles and techniques and to explore your creativity. This past October, three […]
March 15, 2017
During the wee hours of Wednesday, February 15, 2017, seven students, led by Dr. Charles Weiss departed for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to represent Clemson University’s Graphic Communications program at Graphics of the Americas, a three-day conference designed for printers, publishers, buyers, and creative minds to interact and showcase their products and skills. A brand new […]
February 13, 2017
Written by Dr. Nona Woolbright (faculty) and Grace Mosley (class of 2017) The Package Design Matters Conference (PDMC) describes the conference as “A perspective-changing event with top-level brand owners, retailers and agency leaders exploring design’s strategic business value” for both graphic and package design professionals. This year, for the first time in the conference’s history, students […]
October 12, 2016
Written by: Meredith Wingate Every year students from the Graphic Communications department at Clemson University travel to GraphEXPO, where the most innovative and exciting exhibitions of Digital, Inkjet, Offset, Flexo, Gravure, and Hybrid technologies are on display for a multitude of industries. Most commonly, the commercial, transactional, converting and package printing, publishing, mailing, in-plant, digital […]
August 22, 2016
Written by: Austin Gaines, Graeme Milley & John Jacobs On Friday afternoons most classes at Clemson University have been dismissed, but in the Fall of 2015 five people remained in the Digital Media Learning Lab tucked away on the second floor of Tillman Hall every Friday. They were four students and one instructor. This […]
September 16, 2015
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 […]
