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THE ART INSTITUTES DESIGN SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION

“You Can Create Tomorrow.” That was the theme for this year’s Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts Poster Design Competition. Participants were challenged to capture what the theme means to them in an original poster design using drawing, painting, photography or typography—whatever helped them realize their creative ideas. Competitors didn’t have to be graphic designers with tons of experience. They just had to be interested in seeing how far their creativity could take them.

For high school seniors, the local Art Institutes Poster Design Competitions offered the chance to earn a $3,000 tuition scholarship as a local first place winner. The winner of the national final round of the competition could earn a full-tuition scholarship to an Art Institutes schoolhe/she.

For high school graduates, the local Art Institutes Poster Design Competitions offered the chance to earn a $1,000 tuition scholarship as a local first place winner, and the winner of the national finals could earn a $10,000 tuition scholarship to an Art Institutes school.

See designs from all of the local first place winners below.

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Americans for the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, it has a record of more than 50 years of service. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Additional information is available at www.AmericansForTheArts.org.

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Liam Arnold-Wallinger
The Art Institute of Vancouver
Poster Design Competition 2012

Liam Arnold-Wallinger
The Art Institute of Vancouver
Poster Design Competition 2012

Art influences society, and vice versa. At the start of the last century, North America was filled with an unprecedented hopefulness for the future, and faith in humanity. This spirit of optimistic futurism was reflected in the design style Art Deco. The simple, bright images thrust forward and upward, a triumphant declaration of mankind's accomplishments, and potential. This style was a natural choice for this project, as I wanted to capture that spirit of idealism while showing the interplay between art and society.

A single art piece, however, can influence the world just as much as a style or a school of thought. Consider Star Wars, a low budget, personal film that no studio had faith in. Two sequels and three prequels later, and the world today is a much different one than it was in the years BS, (Before Star Wars.) Art styles that shape and represent an era, too, come ultimately from an individual. Any artist's work could become the progenitor for a new way of thinking. And though the world of the future will be different and strange and unpredictable, by changing the way that the present looks, you influence the way that the future looks. You can create tomorrow.

There are three flags on the golden towers in my poster, yet only two flags have visible images on them. This was no accident; the logos of the future are not yet created, and the folded flag teases and dares the viewer to fill in the blanks.

The figures in the foreground of my poster are not Art Deco style. I wanted them to be distinctly rooted in the present, to represent the viewer. They are the "You" referred to by the text banner at the top. It's no coincidence, though, that their colours are much the same as the colours of the land of tomorrow that awaits them. I wanted to show the influence of the artists of the present on the future, by having their very essence used as the paint coating this brave new world.

Keeping the foreground figures in silhouette means that the viewer can project whatever they want onto them, as they have no clear genders or backgrounds. They remain anonymous; a shorthand depiction of people, as they are today, to both contrast against the unknowable yet shown future, and to act as avatars for the artists who will shape it.

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Joshua Baldi
The Art Institute of Salt Lake City
Poster Design Competition 2012

Joshua Baldi
The Art Institute of Salt Lake City
Poster Design Competition 2012

Creating art starts with just drawing little doodles and can explode into anything you can think of. It is an amazing thought to think that you can create something from just a blank piece of paper, something that would have never existed without you making it. Tomorrow is just another day to create that art, the art that only you can make. This poster is to show that anything can be made just from the start of doodling on a little paper, and the boundless possibility's that come and take hold while creating the next great thing, tomorrow...

In this piece, l've placed some subtle symbols such as the moon in the night for the coming of tomorrow, with arrows at the feet of the person to show which way you can go; its not always clear and it can take you anywhere, you just have to keep going with it. From there, a robot looming over symbolises the future as it grows and comes forward. A monster show a strange thing to come, and a little little tree that promises to grow into something big.

I wish to have a career in game design. Because when I was young there was only two thing to do around the house. Make art and play video games. After awhile I got better and better in art and have always loved video games. So combining the two sounds like the best thing to do. So I Hope to become one of the people that create the things that I loves. From the idea of the game to every aspect of it, making some thing that I love and a lot of other people will love too.

You can create tomorrow and it can be any kind of tommorrow you want it to be.

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Dallin Bifano
The Art Institute of Seattle
Poster Design Competition 2012

Dallin Bifano
The Art Institute of Seattle
Poster Design Competition 2012

You can create tomorrow. When I first heard about the competition last Tuesday I thought about that phrase for a long time before I picked up my pencil to start my first sketch. What I thought of was this: creation and innovation and everything that the human mind could possibly invent. The inception of many good ideas where birthed by individuals armed with pencil in hand and seated at an art desk somewhere, anywhere in the world. Creating tomorrow doesn't necessarily constrict one to the creation of technology or a mechanical innovation of some kind. I had to fight my mind to repel that limiting thought process. Finally my brain opened up to the realization that media, entertainment in all its vast forms and art of every kind begins in the recesses of some individuals mind. How it finds its way to the world we know is by an artist of some kind. I created an image of a boy, adolescent of some age at an art table and chair, much like to the one I own, and have him drawing. I tried to create the illusion that the page is coming "alive" with illustration and creativity. You see a flying city, planets, space, an underwater sea with mermaids, and ocean creatures. It also features an underwater machine peering in on the vastness of that world. On the other side of the boy is a dragon scene in front of a green planet and clouds everywhere. I also added a ship with mast and sail in front of a planet that is accompanied by a space station. And of course, the starry man in the background of it all. All of the images are assorted in a sort of loose collage type of an image. I did that trying to represent all of the different ideas that can come out of the human mind. Space is my background because that is where my mind first took me when I thought of creation, so I went with it. I hope you enjoy.

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Bessy Camacho
The Art Institute of York - Pennsylvania
Poster Design Competition 2012

Bessy Camacho
The Art Institute of York - Pennsylvania
Poster Design Competition 2012

My poster is of a man holding the world in his hands, with paint all over his hands. Around the man there are things which are in space like a rocket ship, an alien ship, a satellite and a shooting star. The idea of this drawing came to me when I was at home talking to my family about the competition. The reason why I decided to draw a man with paint all over his hands, holding the world was because I believe the world is changing because of art. The man is intensely looking at the world because I wanted to make it seem like he was thinking how he can make another change in the world by using art. The paint is all over his hands and even dripping of the hands to show how much he does art. Surrounding the world and the man are the things people would see in space. In these things I put the words LIFE IS BETTER WITH ART IN IT. The rocket ship has LIFE IS, the alien space ship has the words BETTER WITH, the satellite has the words ART IN and the shooting start has the word IT in it. I decided to leave the background white in this drawing because I wanted it to be simple and a solid color especially since I do have a lot of bright colors and details in this photo. I also decided to outline some things and not others so that the judges and everyone else could see the detail, especially in the hands. One of the things which was the hardest to draw I would have to say was the hands. I spent hours and hours trying to make them look like they were actually wrapping around the globe. All in all I believe that my drawing looks great and I am definitely proud of what I have accomplished. I hope the judges see all the effort and thought which was put into my design.

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Chauncy Felisz
The Art Institute of California - Orange County
Poster Design Competition 2012

Chauncy Felisz
The Art Institute of California - Orange County
Poster Design Competition 2012

I call this piece "The Unmask" and the reason behind that is an idea that by unmasking our true selves we unleash this ultimate potential to create and shape our lives and our future. I've used myself as the subject for this idea but I've presented myself in a way that represents my inner image. This unmasked form is surrounded by tendrils of color, which represent creative potential, and in my hand is a quill pulled from my own wings which is inked in a drop of blood; the life stream of my physical being. This powerful imagery invokes a number of things; when we take pen in a hand we are given the power so shape and direct our thoughts and it is through that direction that we are able to act with precision and purpose.

The project asks for a piece that embodies the theme "You Can Create Tomorrow" and I feel The Unmask invokes this. Our true selves have so much power but contained in our every day masks we set boundaries around ourselves and our potential to create the future. There is so much freedom in this piece when our true selves are exposed; the wings and the broken cuffs speak as much, and the quill and open book have such an effortless feel to them as though the subject only need put the quill to paper and write the next chapter of life.

The subject covers one half of her face. This is a reminder that the we put a mask on ourselves. It shows that even though we might try to hide our inner being is still present and sometimes more visible to others than to us. Potential radiates around the subject and it is easy to imagine that whatever she might write will resonate with powerful consequences, it will be up to the subject whether the to invoke positive or negative consequences for the future. This message can be applied to anyone who dares invoke it, the future is at hand and all we need do is take charge of it.