Let Your Design Skills Be Seen.
Welcome to the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology Visual Communications "7th Annual Genesis Competition" web site. If you like to draw, paint, photograph, design, create on the computer and make videos, this contest is for you. It is your chance to find out where your talents can take you! The "Genesis Competition" is a regional competition for high school students with creative skills and interests in illustration, photography, graphic design, and multimedia. We are looking for work that shows your love for creativity.
What Can I Enter?
Genesis Competition is looking for a wide variety of creative work. In Illustration, entries can be color or black & white. Subcategories include “dry media” such as graphite, pen and ink, scratchboard, chalk, charcoal or printmaking. “Wet media” includes watercolor, acrylic, oil, gouache, and digital media. In Photography, entries can be black and white or color pictures of people, places, things or portraits. In multimedia, entries build an original animation/motion graphic entry using “My Life” as the theme or design and produce an original music video with original lyrics and music or design and build an original website using “Alternative Energy” as your subject matter. In Graphic Design, entries can be logos, trademarks, advertisements, magazines, yearbooks, newsletters, newspapers, signs, posters, billboards or brochures.
If you’ve worked on your school, newspaper or yearbook, designed advertising pieces, logos and other graphics for print, attended computer technology or art classes, you probably have some excellent work or skills ut use for the Genesis Competition. We’re looking for examples that show creativity and passion.
What Do I Have To Do?
The web site links have all the information you need to enter the "2010 Genesis Competition." Deadline for entries is February 26, 2010, the fee is $10 per person. You may enter up to four additional pieces at $2.50 each. Students currently enrolled in public or private school grades 9-12 are invited to submit published or unpublished work in any category.
What Can I Win?
Gold, Silver, Merit and Best of Show Awards include scholarship offers to attend OSUIT’s Visual Communications programs with A.A.S. degrees upon graduation, and lots of other cool stuff. Winners will be posted on the web site and published in regional newspapers. The "Genesis Competition" will conclude with a special celebration at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology Friday, April 9, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. This is a memorable dinner reception and awards presentation is for all entrants, teachers, judges, and families.
Are You Ready For More?
So, if a career in illustration, photography, graphic design, or multimedia sounds like a career for you, then the "Genesis Competition" will help you start. Check out the web site, for posters or information call the Visual Communications Division at 918-293-5050 or email viscom@okstate.edu.
The Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology Visual Communications Division sponsors "Genesis Competition." As the title of the contest implies, this is a "coming into being" event - created to give you a chance to see if you have what it takes for a fulfilling career in Visual Communications. It is a talent search for the best young creative students in the region. This is your opportunity to discover the premiere design school in Oklahoma and learn how our faculty here can help you shape your talents into an amazing set of tools that will start you on a thrilling and challenging professional path.
