Each year the California Community College Economic
& Workforce Development Program sponsors a Media Arts Competition,
primarily for California Community College students with an additional
special award to a California High School Student.
The competition is divided into several segments:
Digital Imagery
Computer Modeling
Computer Animation
Traditional Animation
Film/Video
Audio
Graphic Design including: Cover Design, Corporate Identity and Promotional
Materials.
Website Design
Interactive Multimedia
Motion Graphics
The 2005 Entry Rules are available Here
as an Adobe Acrobat download for reference.
We hosted the Graphic Design jury in our home over two weekends.
The first Saturday we invited a number of professors from Southern
California Community Colleges and State Universities to review the
180 entries in these three categories and select a dozen finalists
from each category of graphic design.
The second Saturday we hosted professors from art schools and leaders
in private enterprise marketing and design to choose winners from
among the finalists.
Each of these entries was judged on four criteria
1) Technical Skills
2) Creative Skills
3) Functionality and Appropriate use of Media
4) Overall Entry Quality
Tallies were added for each of these criteria and averaged. The highest
average score indicating the placement.
The three to four winners in each of these categories can be seen
HERE.
I wish to emphasize that these design pieces required all of the skills
learned in the art class. Developing solutions to visual problems
with appropriate composition, perspective and color was worth over
50% of the points awarded for each design piece while only 35% of
the points was awarded based on skills associated with software and
computer training.
Each of these students is training for a career in media
arts, the success of these students in finding employment in that
is satisfying in work and income can be assessed by reading about
the success of students in computer animation at: http://www.cccewd.net/success_detail.cfm?l=63
The California Community College system is an important part of the
engine that drives the 5th largest economy in the world. As you can
see from the winning entries California Community College students
create work that is professional and of high quality and the students
have developed skills that will be refined in the university or art
school that they are preparing for.
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