A big thank you to Tom Antl, producer and director of Groovy Like a Movie, for greeting our class at the studio and showing us the behind-the-scenes for big and smaller projects: a studio for large crowds, another for smaller groups (including guests on Skype), a podcasting studio, editing and production rooms, the hair and makeup room, etc. Motion Designer Ryan Trenhaille also talked about his experiences working on films… Read More
Congratulations to Platt College student Dennis Santarinala! Last month several of our students had the opportunity to have their work submitted to the 2015 Addy Awards here in San Diego. One of those students was Dennis Santarinala who submitted some of his amazing fashion photography and took home a silver (2nd place) award in the Student Showcase portion. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with the ADDY’s, it’s… Read More
And the Winner Is…. The students and alumni here at Platt College San Diego recently had the exciting opportunity to participate in a logo design contest hosted by the College Area Business District. If you’re familiar with the college area you may have heard of their annual event called the College Area Taste. However this year they wanted to go a different direction with the event and rebrand it as… Read More
One of the great things about Platt College is that we have a large veteran student body. Several of our military veteran students and alumni have joined together to create a Facebook group to connect with other fellow vets. This group was created as a resource for Veterans-related questions, advice and to connect with our expansive veterans network! Feel free to invite anyone you know that would benefit from this… Read More
Platt College Video Production Students Interview Former Oklahoma Governor, David Hall Earlier today several of our Digital Video Production students met with the 20th Governor of Oklahoma, David Hall. Students John Palacios, Andrew Cadriel, Christian Dionela and Elia De Armas, interviewed Governor David Hall about a book that he wrote about his political life called “Twisted Justice”. The book was released in 2012 and reveals the true story of how… Read More
SDX Organization Hosts Awards Event Every year the SDX organization hosts an awards event that showcases spectacular design work used in many realms of advertising called the ADDYs. Since we have so many talented graphic design students here at Platt College our Dean Marketa Hancova made sure to submit work from some of our top students. Once the work is submitted they hold an event called the ADDYs Raid where… Read More
Forwarding the Dream In addition to celebrating emerging African American artists, Our Head Librarian/ Instructor Nicole Lewis is commemorating Black History Month by sharing stories of artists who paved the way. “I asked my colleague, Richard Morris, a fellow African American teacher at Platt College, who inspired him to pursue art and he told me about his grandfather who was an illustrator in Texas while Jim Crow laws were in… Read More
Top 10 Platt College Student and Alumni Videos on YouTube from 2014 You might have seen one of our most recent blog posts highlighting the Top 20 Student and Alumni Creations of 2014 we posted this week. For that particular post we noticed the vast majority were illustrations and graphic design related projects, which considering the rankings were determined from Instagram likes makes sense. Instagram is not quite the place… Read More
The Top 20 Platt College Student & Alumni Creations of 2014 Star Wars, Marvel and Michael Jackson are just a few of the themes you will find among our popular student creations from last year. To kick off 2015 we decided to do a wrap up of the top 20 creations from our students and alumni from 2014. If you follow us on Instagram you know that we like to… Read More
Something many people take for granted in this technologically advanced age is the availability of free knowledge for all through the world wide web. Chances are if you’ve ever wanted to learn more about a particular subject one of the first places you visit is Wikipedia. The amount of information you can find there is almost infinite and here at Platt we can’t imagine a world without it! If you… Read More