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
5 Tips & Tricks To Help Promote Your Behance Portfolio In case you missed out on our most recent workshop on how to promote your work with Behance & DeviantArt, I thought I would share with you a few key points to remember when promoting your work. If you are passionate about being involved in the media arts industry, having a Behance portfolio is extremely important. #1 – Only Post… Read More
PLATT COLLEGE PRESENTS THE TOP 10 STUDENT & ALUMNI DESIGNS FROM February 2015 It’s time for another showcase featuring some of our most popular student designs according to Instagram likes and comments. If you follow us on Instagram you know that we like to share art, video production projects, 3D animations, and designs from our talented digital media design students and alumni almost daily! It’s a great way to show… Read More
A couple months ago we had an Unreal Engine workshop with Waylon Brinck from Naughty Dog Games (Uncharted, The Last of Us). During the course of his lecture he made the point that the people who just do the bare minimum in the industry don’t really go anywhere. And I was thinking that that advice applies to school as well. Those who do just the bare minimum to graduate, even… 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
Join Career Services and Platt’s Social Media Coordinator / Media Arts Alumni Natasha Englehardt for an informative workshop on Behance and DeviantART. Learn how to use 2 of the largest social media networking platforms designed specifically for creatives. Whether you’re searching for freelance projects or looking for creative inspiration, both networks offer more than just a place to upload your work. The workshop is March 3rd at 12:30 PM in… Read More
Logo Design Contest Hosted by the College Area Business District: We are excited to be partnering up with the College Area Business District for their College Area Food Experience (CAFE) event happening this May. Some of you may be familiar with the College Area Taste that happens every year here in our neighborhood and this year they decided to re-brand the event. That’s where YOU come in! If you are… Read More
Join us Tuesday, February 17th for our courtyard celebration in honor of Valentine’s Day and Social Media! We LOVE to celebrate and there is not a better celebration than a celebration of LOVE!! The modern world LOVES to be LIKED, LOVES to be SHARED, to be HASHTAGGED #, and LOVES to be COMMENTED on. So we ask you to SHARE your love today, SHARE your kindness, SHARE your artwork, SHARE… 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