YouMedia @ Chicago Public Library

The Challenge

Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) is about the sharing of ideas, inspiring action, and igniting change to positively impact our world.  From October 8 to 14, 2012, CIW brings together some of the world’s most outstanding speakers to present their ideas and inspire the innovations of tomorrow at 80+ sessions across the city of Chicago. CIW aims to be the platform for sharing big ideas and making big things happen.

In partnership with Hive Fashion and YOUmedia, CIW is issuing a t-shirt design challenge to Chicago-area teens within the Hive Learning Network.  Your challenge is to create a t-shirt graphic inspired by the big ideas of Chicago Ideas Week—themes such as innovation, inspiration, and creativity.  The chosen design will be worn by staff, volunteers, and will be seen by the nearly 28,000 CIW attendees.

The top ten designs as judged by YOUmedia mentors will be submitted to CIW.  The teens whose submissions are among the top three designs in the opinion of CIW staff will receive free admission to the CIW Edison Talks.

The top three designs will be posted online and the winning design will be chosen by popular vote.  The winning designer will receive a prize worth $250 and his or her creation will be featured on chicagoideas.com.

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T-Shirt Design Specs

Target Audience: General

Season: Fall

Distribution: Chicago Ideas Week Volunteers and CIW Members

Goal: The purpose of this challenge is to create a stand-alone design inspired by Chicago Ideas Week.

Thoughts from the CIW Creative Director:  Study the Chicago Ideas Week logo and incorporate at least one of the following representations:

- a light bulb

- the words Chicago Ideas Week, or 

-the acronym CIW

Check out: chicagoideas.com for information & inspiration.

Your design should not have brand names or outside logos on it.  The final t-shirt will be yellow.  The graphic design will appear on the front of shirt only. The graphic should be one color only at a resolution of 300dpi.  The preferred format is both a native file ( such as eps, psd, indd) and a jpg.

*Participants can submit up to 3 designs for consideration.*

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How to Enter

Challenge is open to Chicago area teens ages 13-18 participating in programs within the Chicago Hive Learning Network: visit http://hivelearning.org/about/members and select Chicago from the pulldown menu of cities to see programs.

Please note the two-step submission process:

(1) email the graphic file and following biographical information to ReFashionLearning@gmail.com

(2) post the design to our Tumblr submission page at http://hivefashion.tumblr.com/submit.

YOU can also post designs to your own Tumblr page with the tag #HiveFashion.

Please Include the following:

Name-

Email-

Age-

Hive Organization(s) You are a part of- (e.g. YOUmedia Chicago, The Shedd, YMCA)

Brief Description of your design-

Twitter Handle (Optional)-

DEADLINE: Designs Due by 11:59pm, August 20, 2012

Your designs may be publicly shared through Tumblr at http://hivefashion.tumblr.com and on Twitter @HiveFashion.  In addition to displaying your design we will post your first name or chosen alias (e.g. Prince Fresh, DeZineGirl).