What do you get when you combine a class of students with knowledge of design, software, a specialized printer, and some creativity? You end up with custom designed stickers, sold by Mr. Colter Bennett’s Graphics Design class after Winter Break. 

Bennett teaches Communication Systems and Graphics Systems. These programs have two different levels. 

“[The class is about] learning how to use Adobe Softwares, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premier Pro,” said Bennett. 

 Following Communication Systems, which Bennett described as an “introduction course” to Graphics Systems, the class responsible for creating and selling the stickers. 

“They…use Adobe Illustrator and are using that program to design…any design they want to sell to the student body,” said Bennett. 

The class is creating the stickers to raise money for their program. Bennett explained the entire process to design a sticker and get it printed, the process to design a sticker is apparently simple. Load up Adobe Illustrator, a “graphic design tool that lets you design anything you can imagine.”, according to Adobe’s website. 

From there, they create their design. 

According to Bennett, it takes “two to three class periods,” and from there all the student has to do is upload the design to a thumbdrive, take it to the large format printer in the  classroom, and it’s as simple as “push, print, and rock on.” 

On average, it takes about three minutes to print a sticker, and the printer is capable of producing up to “100 small stickers in three or four minutes.”

The Graphics Systems class is on target to have the stickers ready to sell by the time students and staff get back for the third nine weeks, and hope to have a booth set up in the Cafeteria to sell during lunches. 

They do not have a definite price set, but Bennett doesn’t “imagine they’ll be any more than two or three dollars a piece.”

The design of the stickers revolve around the festivities of the holiday season, but the class is leaning more towards the theme of Wildcat Pride and school spirit in support of our Winter Sports athletes, with the sports seasons now being underway. 

Be sure to check out the stickers that Graphics Design is putting together when they are selling them, and have a great Winter Break!