DMACC Graphic Design

DMACC Graphic Design was thrilled to be the host school for the 2024 Iowa Community College Design + Advertising Invitational (ICCADI). We received many exceptional entries from across Iowa and are thrilled to announce this year's winners in the categories of Identity, Illustration, Outdoor, Packaging, Poster, Publication, and Online/Interactive Design.

Congratulations to our 2024 ICCADI winners! The students' creativity, hard work and dedication have truly paid off, showcasing the incredible talent within our community. We're so proud of all the participants and winners who demonstrated exceptional skill and innovation in advertising and design.

A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated judges—Petra Amstad, Michael Braley and Chad Johnson—for their invaluable time and support put forth reviewing all of our student entries.

A sincere thank you to our sponsors, whose generous contributions made this event possible and helped highlight the incredible talents of our students.

A huge congratulations to all our student winners and participants. Keep shining and continue to inspire us all with your amazing work! (Feel free to tag the winners and your college!)



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DMACC is hosting this year's Iowa Community College Advertising & Design Invitational (ICCADI) and we need sponsors!

Your donations will go directly to funding student award winners who place first or second in their respective categories!

As a thank you, we'll include your name and/or company logo on our traveling poster exhibit that will make its way all across Iowa.
ICCADI recognizes and celebrates original designs created by students in the Graphic Design programs at Iowa’s Community Colleges. It rewards individuals whose projects demonstrate seven categories of engaging, innovative, effective, and thoughtful design solutions.

Work is judged by top local and national design professionals. Winners will be awarded cash or prizes, and the top designs will get statewide recognition as a traveling poster exhibit over the next year.

We would be forever grateful if you could help out, either personally or professionally, in the amount of $100, $250, or more. Hosting this invitational is awesome for our program, and we need some help to make it happen!

Please share this with anyone you know who might be interested in sponsoring some amazing student designers!
Message us for more information. THANK YOU!!!

Alumni can contribute, too! $5, $10, $20 -- every little bit helps.

To celebrate surviving midterms, the DMACC Graphic Design Group had a DAY of the DEADLINE Fiesta! Costume contest, walking (dead) tacos, and the beginning life-long friendships.

DMACC Portfolio Day 2023. What a terrific group of fresh new designers!

The DMACC Graphic Design had a ton of fun at the "Day of the Deadline" Halloween party this week. Awards were given to Best Homemade, Scariest, Funniest and People's Choice costumes.

Big thanks to AAF Des Moines for hosting the studio tours for students today. We had a great time visiting with the crew from Two Tone Creative, Strategic America, Meyocks, and ZLR Ignition.

For those of you who had Monte as a classmate, teacher or friend. From his beloved wife Carol:At 12;30 this morning, Monte went home to be with the Lord, his Savior Jesus Christ!!

The past few days and weeks were evidence of the ravaging effects of ALS on his body. He suffered tremendously. Thankfully, with the assistance of Hospice, we were able to get him comfortable. Now, though grieving, I am also relieved that he is no longer suffering. It is very comforting to know that he is now in the very presence of the Lord, freed from the limitations and bondages of this world.

I will let you know when we decide on a time for the Celebration of Life Service, which will be held at our church here in Ankeny.

Please pray for me and my family as we grieve the loss of our dear Monte (husband, Dad, Grandpa, friend to many).

Sorrowful, but not without hope,

Carol

Super fun "Day of the Deadline" Halloween Party today! Congrats to all the winners of the costume contest.

DMACC Closing Information

All DMACC classes are cancelled for Monday, June 7, 2021. All DMACC locations are closed Monday, June 7, 2021. The DMACC network will remain offline on Monday as well. Faculty are working to modify schedules and assignments for all classes impacted by this event. All applicable deadlines and start dates have been extended. Further updates will be provided later in the day on Monday, June 7, 2021. Please email [email protected] with questions.

Des Moines Area Community College DMACC IT continues to work to restore Internet service to the college. We will provide new information as soon as available. Please email [email protected] with questions regarding this issue.

Four weeks away from the 2020 election. Graphic Design students create posters and social media posts to inspire people to register to vote.

Here are the first year classes of 1985! With so many candidates for admission it was difficult to get them all together for a class photo. Some came in for classes on Monday Wednesday and others on Tuesday Thursday. Now we have over 100 students who start the Program each Fall Semester. The tradition of a Class Picture is nearly impossible to do.

The Interview: When I interviewed with Bob Eicher & Carroll Bennett (both now deceased) for the job as the first and only instructor/Program Chair of the Commercial & Advertising Art Program in August of 1970 I told them in the interview that I knew they were looking to hire a man and found out later that I was a finalist with Dick Ramsell (also now deceased) who later taught Advertising classes for us as a part time instructor. Anyway, I had been employed as a Commercial Artist for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in their Marketing Department and was, at the time, working in the Promotion Art Department at the Des Moines Register and Tribune newspaper. Our photographer, Jerry Bruning (Bruno also deceased) came in to announce that they were starting a Commercial Art Program at DMACC and I decided to apply for the job as I had always wanted to teach. Little did I know the challenges ahead! This Art Department was made up of all creative type people including, designers illustrators, copy writers, photographers, and a boss (Roy Follett) who was a fine artist. One of the copywriters, Bob Buckley, had a flair for teasing me constantly so he sent this recommendation letter to me as a copy (fake) of the letter he supposedly sent to Bob Eicher & Carroll Bennett. I think you will get a kick out of it and even as recently as 2019 was being shared by Carroll as one of his most funny facts about me. Anyway, they offered me the job even with my pilfering problem! JK! AND those spotted bugs are still in my life! Bob, btw, is now an author and retired living in Marion, Iowa. We have been in touch and still both remember the time we snuck out of the office to go to see Barbarella at the River Hills movie theater (now Wells Fargo Arena). Notice how he misspelled my name every way possible! Here is the text in case you might be able to read it a bit easier. AND... I was the only female Program Chair in my department at DMACC. That lasted for many years!

DeeDee: Best of luck.Thought you might want to know what
Mr. Eicher will be reading right at this very moment. bb

Dr. Robert Eicher
2006 Ankeny Blvd.
Ankeny. Iowa

Dear Dr. Eicher:
It was a pleasure talking to you on the phone recently and, as requested, I am putting my recommendation of Mrs. Johnson down in writing for your files.
I had the pleasure of working with Delores at the Register and Tribune. We were both members of the Promotion Department and worked together on many various projects.

I am confident you will find her a very talented and witty person. I am reminded, for examp1e, of the day Delores and I snuck away from work to see “Barbarella”.. and how we giggled the rest of the week. We were always doing something silly like that. She’s that kind of gal.

She does, however, have one hang-up. Those goddamn bugs of hers. No doubt you’ve noticed by now. They’re everywhere. I could only suggest you keep a keen eye on her finished projects to be certain there isn’t one of those dotted beasts lurking some where.

Other than that, Deloris has a great ability to work with people and a dedication to her profession that is a credit to the world of artist-type people. I am sure her pilfering problem will pass with time.

In conclusion. Dr. Eicher, I think you have made a wise choice. I, for one, am completely at rest knowing Deloros is on your staff. She will be working in Ankeny, won’t she?

Sincerely,
Robert E. Buckley

So hard to believe that the Program started 50 years ago this month. So many memories and stories to share. We started in a grocery store out in West Des Moines and shared space with Dennis Marten and the Secretarial Program. We had little classroom desks with the table and chair all one unit because the drawing boards had not been delivered. I had a huge drafting board that had a flexible top that could be adjusted to be completely upright and facing the students so I could do demonstrations. I think the brand was Mayline and they still make similar ones although I would have no clue who in our field would use them. That first day was a complete shock to me as I had planned an activity that I thought would take all day long to complete. I had brought paper, pencils, pastels, and other materials from home because I had literally only a week to get ready for class. They had the students before they hired me. I guess they wanted to make sure the Program was going to have enrollment before they bothered to hire someone to head it up! More about my interview later! So the students arrived at the Grocery Store with all of their expectations and I gave them their first assignment which was to create a self portrait. They were done in 30 minutes! So what to do with the rest of the day.... hmmm! Well, it was time to take our first field trip! So off to the Art Center we went and then a discussion followed. The art tables arrived the following day so the students each assembled their own table and stained them as they were made out of wood! The odor from the stain made the business students sick so they let them go home! No kidding! in about a month we moved out to the Ankeny campus into the Health Occupations Building which was brand new with sidewalks under construction with plywood sections to get into the building. I was in an office with Dee Benning who headed up the Operating Room Technician Program and got to know all of the students and instructors in those oddly unfamiliar programs to art students. At the end of that first semester I was so overwhelmed with teaching all of the Commercial Art classes that I required each of the students to create a portfolio containing projects from each of the subjects. Those courses were Life Drawing, Color & Design, and something called Design & Composition. They also took a class called Human Relations which was taught by a related instructor. That's what they called them. I had never even done a Life Drawing in my life so I took a class at the Art Center and would go to class and teach what I learned the following day!. So, it was nearing Winter, plywood sidewalks and me in the building all alone grading each one of the students at the end of that first quarter. The wind came up ad blew the plywood sidewalk boards across the parking lot and smashed the windshield of my 1955 green and white chevy! I was considered a total loss and so was that first semester! The only really good part was that I treasured teaching and mothering these students even if they were sometimes even older than me! I picked up after them every day after they left the classroom and listened to all of their life stories. We suffered through it together and somehow I think I learned more than they did!

Congratulations to all of the DMACC students and alumni who won awards in the latest ADAI show. I was fortunate to be able to start the Student Award division with the help of Shirlie Katzenberger who was President in the early 70's. I joined Art Directors in the early 60's when I was working as the only artist for the Marketing Department at Northwester Bell Telephone Company. ADAI was a group where you could meet your fellow designers from all over the State of Iowa. You can view the entire collection.https://2020.artdirectorsiowa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-ADAI-Awards-Book_Digital.pdf

And here is the Class of '87! Sorry no names YET but Nick Nielson is working on it.

Moving forward in time. Here is the Class of 1986 Picture.

Here is a supply list from one of the classes when we first started teaching on computers. Back then it was a P.C. lab because our Purchasing Department was not impressed with the MAC computer and they cost so much more and still do! But what a difference! More about that later.

Big round of applause for all the great work from DMACC Graphic Design students at the ADAI Design Exhibition. Special shout out to Hailey O'Connor Morelock for taking Best of Show!

Huge Congrats to Janae Gray for launching Black Lives of DSM. Janae is a graduate of Graphic Design Program, class of 2009. We're crazy proud of you!

DMACC Commercial Art Class of 1978.

Here is a class reunion for the Class of 1977. Please send the names. Thanks!

The good news is that I found my grade books with the Class lists but still will need some help in identifying those in the photos. Here is the Class of '76 along with the combined classes of '76 & '77. If anyone wants to tackle naming everyone - YAY!

So here is the Class of 1977 but I could use some help from those of you who knew these classmates. The 1st photo has 46 in it so we had 2 sections of 23 students and that was in the 1st semester. The 2nd photo was taken outside our building on the Wall where we took so many photos over the early years in that Media Center building. I know that some of the missing ones from that 2nd photo are in the list. Let me know if you have changes or can add names to this group. Thanks! Dee

What percentage of you still use proportion wheels?

DMACC Commercial Art Class of 1976

Commercial Art Class of 1975.
Front Row: Russ Parkhurst, Merita Marshall, Barb Anderson, Nan Harridge.
Second Row: Dick Rassmussen (Advertising Instructor), Doug Hanks, Tom Box, Terry Pagliai, Dee Johnson (Program Chair), Cindy Murphy, Deb Rhiner, David Cunningham.
Back Row: Deb Osweiler, John Mostrom, T.J. (Tom) Knight, Candy Schmaltz, Jay Magnani, Galen Mayes (Deceased), Randy Kent, Kim Miller.
Not Pictured: Pat Barr, Jeff Bettis, Jim Jones, Mark Jones, Joan Kautzky, Jaci Slater, Sue Thayer

DMACC Commercial Art Classes of 1974 & 75.

What is your favorite Pantone color?

DMACC Student Handbook from 1981 featuring Commercial Art student Gail Barton.

The very first class of Fall 1970 began with 17 students. The original program title was Commercial and Advertising Art. The program was originally housed in a converted grocery store on 54th and Vine Street in West Des Moines, Iowa.