PROJECTS

LOGO DESIGN

Scoring Guidelines *

Narrative Description Worksheet *

Example Projects:

• T-shirts
• mugs
• mouse pads
• poster
• business card
• letterhead

Example Software:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe PageMaker
• Adobe InDesign

Specific Category Rules:

• Designs must be limited to two colors and suitable for silk screening. Projects that do not follow the two-color rule* will be disqualified.
• Each project must demonstrate two different applications of the design (for example, t-shirt and business card).
• Each project must be shown on paper to fit in a 3" x 3" area.
• All designs must contain next year's date, since the winning logo will be used for the following year's competition.
• All projects must contain PA or Pennsylvania Middle School (not MS) Computer Fair.
• A storyboard of creation process must be included in the displayed project.
• Computers are not permitted to display project during competition.
• Space will be assigned and limited to 3 square feet per project.
• Project must be submitted in one color scheme only.
• Each project must include a narrative description that must include enough detail about the project to provide judges with information to fairly judge the project including the development of graphics, templates, and objects.
• All projects must have copyright information and credits. (Use the narrative description to explain)
• Spelling and grammar will be judged on narrative and project.
  

* Explanation of two-color rule:
The project may use many different shades of a single ink, but only two ink colors may be used. Assume that the background color is white. If parts of your design show through to the background, then you are not using an ink for that part of the design. To clarify, you may use a single gray ink color. You may also use percentages of that single gray ink color throughout your design. You cannot, however, use more than two different inks. For example, blue, red, green on a white background would not be allowed. Black is considered an ink color. The purpose of the two color rule is to create a product that may be silk screened onto a T-shirt. The winning design will be used for next year's competition. Logos should be optimized to fit within 3” x 3” area.

* requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.