The sophomore Graphic Design and Communications students have been designing new displays for the area outside of the classrooms for several years. A lot of time goes into researching topics, designing the pieces and producing the elements.

The goal is to have students complete the display case project at the end of the first semester. Each year, the three instructors feel like the deadline is going to be missed and every year the students have pulled through. Once again, this year, the teachers are worried about making the deadline.

With only two production Fridays remaining, the students will have to work hard to complete the cases outside of class.

It’s easy to judge a logo – saying it’s great or terrible – but often very difficult to actually do the work and find a solution for a client.

The freshmen were handed a tough list of clients. The idea was to take a nontraditional sport and create a logo to represent it. The project was pushed a little farther to include displacing the logo onto a variety of projects. They did a great job finding creative solutions to the problems.

The sports included cup stacking, squirrel hunting, hog calling, lock picking and hot dog eating.

Sophomore Megan Davidson prepares ingredients for her food photo. The production room table looked like a potluck buffet as she created the scene that would be moved to the studio.

It’s food photography time. That means beautiful photos, lots of offers of free food that has been handled too much and stressed out students.

Food photography is all about preparation – the students invest more time in the planning, shopping and setup than taking the photos. Editing is also important, getting color perfect and cloning out crumbs is a must.