2009 STA Scholarship Award

The STA is please to announce its competition for the 2009 STA Scholarship Award.

Since 1927, The Society of Typographic Arts has been and continues to be a vital participant in the Chicago design community by sponsoring seminars and conferences, developing publications, presenting diverse events and supporting design education.

The annual STA Scholarship Award is presented to promising design students who demonstrate a significant understanding of the principles of design and visual communication.

Timeline: Submission Deadline: November 1

Judging: November
Show/Holiday Party/Silent Auction: December 2

The STA Scholarship: Jack Weiss Founder Scholarship Award: $500 There will be two Scholarships granted this year.

Details

Entrants must be STA Student Members. STA Student Membership is free. Sign up for membership at here, or simply submit your poster. Students will automatically become members. Awarding of the scholarship will be determined by a poster competition.

  • The competition is open to registered college students
  • Entrants must have a 3.0 GPA
  • One poster per entrant
  • Size: 24 in. x 36 in. vertical

Poster Theme: Typography as “meta” communication.

Meta—is a prefix used to express a higher, deeper, symbolic or more complex meaning. For example, the metaphor “dense as a jungle” indicates teeming with vegetation, but it also indicates complicated, tangled or difficult to understand. While physics describes the physical arrangement of the world, metaphysics describes the spiritual or cosmological significance of the world. Meta- points in many directions—to a concept, an explanation, a definition, an example, just to name a few.

The STA will reproduce the top posters at full 24 in. x 36 in size and invite all scholarship entrants to the holiday party where winning posters are included in the silent auction.

There is a $10 submission fee, payable via PayPal by using the button below.

Enter by emailing a high resolution pdf poster to Cheri Gearhart. Questions can be directed to here. The posters will be judged by the scholarship committee. There will be two winning posters selected. The winning posters and any Honorable Mention posters will be inducted into the student section of the Chicago Design Archive.

Registration is closed.


Scholarship Judging Committee:

  • Jack Weiss / Principal, Jack Weiss Associates
  • Joseph Essex / Principal, Essex Two
  • Cheri Gearhart / Principal, Gearhart Design
  • Renee Ramsey-Passmore / Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College Chicago / Creative Director, Ramsey-Passmore Design, Inc.
  • Lance Rutter / Principal, Legendre+Rutter