Think you can design the face of Manifest? Are you looking for a job, exposure, and the opportunity to build your body of work? We’re looking for Columbia College Chicago’s best talent that can best portray the look and feel of Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Columbia’s end of the year celebration. Previous winners designs incorporated paper arts, watercolor, typography, graphic design, and mixed media. The winning designer will get exposure, fame, and untold riches. And by that we mean your work will be seen across Chicago and you’ll have a year-long paid student worker position as the Manifest 2019 Creative Director.

THEME:

The Manifest 2019 theme will be AMPLIFY.

am · pli · fy
1. To make larger or more powerful (as in amount, importance, or intensity)
2. To increase the strength of; especially : to make louder
3. To expand in stating or describing, as by details or illustrations; clarify by expanding
4. To discourse at length; expatiate or expand one’s remarks, speech, ideas, etc.

Before you move on, a few things you’ll want to consider:

• Submissions are open to students in ALL academic departments
• All interested applicants must be proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud programs.
• Contestants must be current Columbia students enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours for undergraduate students and a minimum of 9 for graduate students.
• Contestants must have a minimum GPA of 2.5.
• Contestants must submit original art. Do not use copyright protected images or elements of another designer’s work.
• Contestants can submit up to 2 designs in the competition.
• The contest winner will be asked to submit additional design concepts to us to help finalize and complete the Manifest 2019 marketing campaign.
• All submissions will be reviewed and chosen by the Manifest committee.

 Here’s how it works:

To compete, you will submit a single .pdf of your design for each entry (you can enter up to two times). That .pdf must contain two pages.

• Page one will be your poster design with the MANIFEST LOGO
• Page two will contain your interpretation on the Manifest star. The Manifest star represents the energy which radiates from our Columbia College community, offering sustenance and support to our students and inspiration and to all.

DEADLINE is March 31, 2018.

Good luck!

Apply here!