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Gaining Insight from Outside the Classroom
Guest Speakers expand students' minds
Dave Nelson (AOS '02), owner of Secret Penguin, speaks to the BFA class about the challenges and advantages of owning your own business.
Did you know that by the time a Creative Center student graduates from the BFA program, they have been exposed to over 75 industry professionals?Visiting instructors, guest speakers, and company tours expand on the curriculum of the college and allow students to get current information and advice from the field as it happens. In-house departments, design firms, print shops, advertising agencies ... you name it, and our students are afforded the opportunity for direct contact with it. What better way to allow your students to make a career choice than to connect them with as many career choices as possible?
 Alumni provide a panel for second-year students to inquire about the job search process. From left to right: Kelsey Piper with Wright Printing, Josh Lawler and Nate Perry with Webster Design Associates, Becca Nispel with Skwintz, and Kelsey Janda with Christ Community Church.
Rich Claussen from Bailey Lauerman Associates gives
students an inside look at how an advertising agency operates.
Oriental Trading Company provides a glimpse
into the world of in-house design and marketing.
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Featured Project: Package Design
Many students consider package design to be one of the most fun forms of design. One of the assignments in second year includes designing and executing a game box. Students are given parameters and limitations in order to replicate an industry project, and are also required to create the die cut map which would be provided to the printer. Below are samples of package designs created by CC students. Top to bottom:
Brianna Bies (Candy Land) - graduate of Tea Area HS in Tea, SD
Travis Janicek (Amnesia) - graduate of Fort Dodge Senior HS in
Fort Dodge, IA
Breanna Marsh (Trivial Pursuit) - graduate of Millard South HS in
Omaha, NE
Jessica Smolinski (Borderlands 2) - graduate of Omaha Central HS in
Omaha, NE
Kyle Theobald (Pictionary) - graduate of Millard West HS in Omaha, NE
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John with his wife, Amanda,
and their son, Owen.
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Graduate of the Month
Web Department Manager at Power Computing, Inc. in Norfolk, NE
www.powerpgs.com
High School: Elgin Public High School in Elgin, NE
What does the company do? Power Pages provides web design, web hosting and web marketing (SEO) services to small and large businesses in Northeast Nebraska. In addition, we provide IT and computer services.
What does the graduate do? As I work with customer sales, web design and development and overseeing the management of the web department's processes.
Additional Comments: My favorite part of the job is to instill creativity and performance on any given website. Our SEO has helped hundreds of customers get found online.
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