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GrCI - Graphic Communication Institute
Address: California Polytechnic State University
1 Grand Ave., Cal Poly campus
City: San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Country: United States
The Graphic Communication Institute (GrCI) is a unique facility designed to support projects in the graphic arts industry. As a non-profit and non-partisan organization, the GrCI is established for education, research, and service purposes. The Institute promotes the study of graphic communication technology and management by providing education in both traditional and digital technologies, participates in education, research, testing, and product evaluations through interrelated programs involving faculty, students, and experts from the profession.
Training is offered in the form of seminars and workshops, and is based on the most recent research, testing, and product evaluations being conducted at the Institute.
GrCI education programs involve the participation of Cal Poly faculty, students, and industry experts. Classes use complete prepress and press labs, and state-of-the-art imaging facilities. Education includes prepress and print training; graphic arts research; ink, toner, and substrate testing; as well as training in project management, quality control, marketing, sales, pricing, estimating, and more.
July of 2001 was the inauguration of the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly. The Institute draws from the university’s established Graphic Communication Department and a number of associated departments, and is joined by an extended network of the world’s leading consultants and educators.
In sunny San Luis Obispo, California, the GrCI is located in the Graphic Arts Building on the Cal Poly campus. All resources of the Graphic Communication Department are readily available to support the GrCI.
The Institute’s most valuable asset is its “brain trust,” starting with an advisory board, faculty, and staff. The Advisory Board is composed of a dedicated group of men and women who were instrumental in establishing the GrCI at Cal Poly and serve as a resource in its ongoing operations.
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