Graphic Design and Visual Communication
The GDV Studio at Fleming College is the home for students of the Graphic Design & Visual Communication program. This network is our very own playground and publishing platform to support student experiments while learning content design for the web.
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Centralized network
Open-source learning
one central authority
An open-source project which uses one central authority -me. All hands-on publishing is conducted entirely in the student learning classroom space.
The world’s most popular publishing software
Security-minded, Employee Owned and operates on Canadian Soil
Centralized for efficient open learning and scaling.
Get startedSecure
Private to your cohort by default — release it to the world when you’re ready. Your work stays between you and your classmates until the day you decide otherwise.
Read moreEasy publishing
If you can write an email, you can publish a post — that’s the whole learning curve. Write, click Publish, see your work live at a real URL that’s actually yours.
Read moreBackup system
Hourly snapshots of the whole network — worst case, you lose an hour of your life. Nothing you build here can really be lost. Save, delete, re-save — we’ve got you.
Read more3/1 Support
Three hours a week, one real human — Chris G, in your inbox all term long. The whole network runs on one very reachable person.
Read moreRegister
The First step is to register as a user on the network. You’ll become an author on THIS YEAR’s class website.
Publish a Post
Learn the back end of the publishing platforming, explore the UI (user interface), and publish your first post! It’s a low-stakes learning opportunity with a high-stakes payoff.
Build a Site
Register a sub-domain on this multisite network and build your very own student site on web.
Why Choose Us
Ten Years
Ten cohorts, ten years, thousands of published posts. None of this was figured out yesterday.
We’ve been refining this since before most of you could drive — the weird parts are weird on purpose.
Real Audience
Classmates, family abroad, future employers — real people read your work. Not just the one grading it.
Your posts have a real audience before you even hit Publish. That changes how you write.
Real Portfolio
At the end of the course, you don’t hand in a folder. You hand someone a URL.
You’re not publishing for a grade. You’re authoring for everyone who can open a browser.