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Overview
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Rules and Regulations
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If you’re the Photoshop or Illustrator whiz that everyone goes to for event flyers, the graphic design competition is for you. Pixelate away!
Procedures:
The following is a list of rules and procedures for this category. Failure to fulfill these obligations and/or any violation of them may result in point loss.
Checklist:
• Name of Competition
The following is a list of rules and procedures for this category. Failure to fulfill these obligations and/or any violation of them may result in point loss.
- No more than two (2) students from each school can register for this competition.
- This competition is NOT a team effort. Each competitor must turn in a separate piece of work.
- MIST ID and order of competition will be pre-assigned on a random selection basis.
- Competitors shall report at the appropriate time and place designated for the interview.
- Competitors shall be introduced to the judges by their MIST IDs.
- All artwork must be labeled (labelled) with the MIST ID ONLY. If the contestant name appears anywhere on the artwork, points will be deducted.
- Artwork must reflect on this year’s theme.
- Artwork should avoid realistic, representational rendering of lifelike human or animal form. If in doubt, contact your Regional Competitions Headquarters.
- Contestants should ONLY use their computers to generate any artwork for this competition.
- Artwork should not be animated.
- All submissions should be in JPG, TIFF, or GIF format. All submissions will be submitted online.
- All submissions must be submitted to your Regional Competitions Headquarters two (2) weeks prior to the MIST competition.
- A typed short explanation of the artwork, no more than one (1) page (500 words max.) must be included with the artwork. The explanation will include what the artwork is about and what inspired the participant to make it.
- Judging will be based on the explanation provided in the interview and the artwork itself. The interview will be no longer than five (5) minutes. Interview questions can be found in the last section of the 2D/3D Art Ballot. Please note that if there are more than 15 entries for this competition, only the top 15 entries (based on artwork and written statement) will be interviewed. In this case, an open gallery preliminary judging round will take place, and all entries will be judged according to the 2D/3D Art Ballot. The top 15 that advance will have a five (5) minute interview with the Judges’ Panel.
- Competitors will be judged according to the Art Competition Ballot.
Checklist:
- Graphic Design submission.
- Written statement based on interview questions (Section D of Art Ballot).
- Both the submission and the written statement should be clearly labeled with:
• Name of Competition