Graphic Design

My Universe

Objective	The objectives of this competition category are: Registered candidates to acquire practical knowledge and skills in the field of creative arts and industries. The registered candidates should familiarize themselves with the study conditions, with part of the teaching staff and with the possibilities of the faculties that are involved in the implementation of the campaign.
Description	The selection of registered candidates is carried out in two stages: Stage of creation and presentation of the works. 70% Portfolio presentation. 30%
Media for preparation of multimedia product	Digital poster 50×70 cm Illustrated story (made of a maximum of five (5) illustrations incorporated into the specific illustrative unit).
Partners	Westprint publishing house IESC Youth actively create opportunities (USAID partner)
Comment:	It will be possible to cooperate with the students who are already enrolled in the study program, as persons who are generationally closer.

 

Why apply to this category?

The goal is to respond to the following challenges through the given media:

• What I see.
• What I feel.
• What I want to change.
• Where am I now?
• Where am I in the future?
• Who am I?
• Who is this universe?
• What is the future of this universe?

 Combinations:

• Who am I and where am I in the future?
• What I see, I want to change.
• Who is this universe and what is its future?
• Who am I and what do I want?
• Where am I in this universe?

Objectives:

To answer any of these questions by creating a conceptual-graphic solution.

What will you get?

By signing up for this application, you will have the opportunity to examine yourself, your priorities in life and expectations for the future, through the cooperation with university professors in the field of graphic design, to create a work that best represents your talent and creativity and to examine it its value in the process of visual communication.

You will get acquainted with the semiology of graphic and multimedia design, which is universal in every point of the planet Earth, because it is based on the principles of emotional coefficient, knowledge of modern technologies and creative approach in visual communication.

How will it be realized?

By clicking on the application for this category, you decide to be part of a study of the ways of making graphic design works on a given topic. Just as tomorrow approaches the creation of a work for a client according to his requirements, and your creativity in your chosen medium, for a superior product or service for a specific target group for which your client works. In discussion with the mentor teacher at the AUE-FON university, you develop a concept for an idea graphic solution and create a work.

In the phase of developing a concept of an idea graphic solution, you eliminate all the initially observed errors, and then you choose a way of presentation that is the most successful and extremely innovative. At the same time, you learn from older colleagues who are students, what difficulties they encountered most often when choosing media or software and how they overcame those challenges. With the technical and technological aids of the Faculty of Design and Multimedia, your own devices, with the aids and advice of partners, you learn what the experience of many years means, limited in just one month of cooperation.

What are the evaluation criteria?

1. Stage of creation and presentation of works: 70%
2. Portfolio presentation: 30%

You need to present your own view of the future, how we feel about it now and what we want to change in it.

Who should apply to this category?

Any high school student who has a talent for:

1. Illustration
2. Experimental typography
3. Drawing and painting
4. Graphic designer
5. 3D modeling,
6. Kinetic typography
7. Communications
8. UX/UI design

Every high school student who perceives his present and future as:

1. UX/UI Designer
2. Animator
3. Designer of concept art for the gaming industry
4. Graphic designer
5. Scenographer and Light Designer
6. Art director

Where will the preparation for this category take place?

The preparation process will be realized in two ways in the premises of the American University of Europe-FON and with the implementation of the project at a scouted location. Daily communication with the mentors of the category (university professors) will be realized in person and/or through a virtual platform (Teams on Office365).

Suggestions for bringing this project activity closer to the campaign:

Guerrilla marketing, direct presentations of works by successful students, viewing web pages of works by students of the Faculty of Design and Multimedia, open day for work in the premises of the Faculty of Design and Multimedia and the premises of the project partners, getting to know the successful alumni of the area.

Suggested messages: Art unveiled./Design unveiled.