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GAERF announces 2010 Student Design Competition

Friday 28. January 2011 - The Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF) announces the launch of its second annual student design competition, which this year challenges students to develop a marketing product to promote GRAPH EXPO 2011 - the largest and most comprehensive trade show and conference for the graphic communications industry in the Americas.

The GAERF 2010 Student Design Competition invites students to be creative by taking their original design from concept to finished product as they:
Create a theme for GRAPH EXPO 2011
Design artwork to support the theme, incorporating the GRAPH EXPO logo, show dates and location, and
Produce a product that incorporates the theme and logo (i.e., advertisement, web site page, postcard, etc.).

The competition is open to all students attending secondary or post-secondary institutions in the continental United States who are studying in a graphic communications/printing, advertising, graphic design or interactive media program. Instructors are responsible for submitting the entry, limited to three per instructor, which will become the property of GAERF.

Design competition entries must be received by June 15, 2010. Those selected by GAERF will be judged by the Graphic Arts Show Company, the producer of GRAPH EXPO 2011. Winners and their instructors will be notified by August 15, 2010.

Among the total six winning entries will be: two first place awards, one at the secondary level and one at the post-secondary level; two second place awards, one at the secondary level and one at the post-secondary level; and, two third place awards, one at the secondary level and one at the post-secondary level.

First place winners and their instructors will receive two-day all-inclusive paid trips to attend GRAPH EXPO 2010 in Chicago, IL. In addition, the winners will be presented at the show with $2,000 awards during Career Awareness Day on October 6, 2010. The second place winners will be awarded $1,500, and the third place winners will receive $1,000.

“GAERF is proud to support education initiatives that encourage students’ creativity and skill in the art of design and production,” said GAERF President Ralph Nappi. “This competition will recognize the talent of our best and brightest students, as well as the significant commitment of their instructors.”