5 REASONS TO ENTER
1. Celebrate your accomplishments. You work hard to create captivating messages and content. Increase your confidence and prove to peers and audiences that your work is extraordinary.
2. Inspire your team. Highlight the creativity and effort you and your team have put into your visual communications. Inspire others in your organization to raise the bar on content planning and execution.
3. Enhance the field. Increase awareness and show other communicators that our work is adding value to the communications process by producing outstanding content with bottom-line results.
4. Broaden your expertise. Use this experience to educate yourself and your team about strategic planning, the creative process, design principles and measuring success.
5. Increase your budget. Results justify raises. An Expression Award shows your plans and designs are working, arming you with negotiating power to increase your visual communications budgets. |
The entry period for the 5th annual Expression Awards in now closed. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries. The judging has started and winners will be announced on June 5. You can vote for your favorite in our People's Choice awards on Facebook until Friday, May 25. Vote Now! Well-planned digital signage campaigns support organizational culture and objectives, convey timely information, and inspire audiences to action. Successful designs express excellence in both content and graphic arrangement. Winning entries can be from small or large organizations. They can be created by professional designers and communicators, or by students, administrators and HR assistants. A winning entry: . Uses original, clever, and appealing design . Communicates the message clearly . Shows an understanding of the target audience . Is optimized for the digital signage medium . Includes a call to action
2012 Expression Award winners will receive: . An Apple iPad®2 . Winning entry featured on Visix.com website, User Forum and Facebook page
AWARD CATEGORIES
Award 1: Best Still Design A still design is a flat, non-animated bulletin of any size or aspect ratio. Still bulletins should be submitted in their native aspect ratio in JPG or PNG formats.
Award 2: Best Motion Design A motion design is an animated graphic like videos or Flash animations. Motion entries should be submitted as AVI, MPEG 1 or 2, WMV or SWF files. (No files over 20MB will be accepted.)
Award 3: Best Screen Design We want to see how your various content pieces look when their combined on the screen. A screen design entry can be a combination of content elements on the display at one time (wallpaper, bulletin, motion content, data feed, weather, cable or streaming feed, etc.) or an interactive touchscreen design. Screen design entries should be submitted as a digital photo of a screen showing the entire layout. Minimum resolution for photos is 800 x 600.
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - NEW FOR 2012!
This year, we're including a People's Choice award for Best Still Design. Simply Like us on Facebook to join the contest. All Facebook users are welcome to submit entries and vote for their favorite design.
Go to the Facebook contest now!
ELIGIBILITY
Your entry must:
. Be designed specifically for use with a Visix software application. . Have been created between May 1, 2011, and entry deadline of May 18, 2012. . Meet the published entry deadline. . Be entered in the appropriate award category for consideration. . Be submitted in approved formats (see categories). . Include permission acknowledgement for use of any components not originally created by yourself or your organization – syndicated, borrowed, reprinted or stock materials. . Include permission acknowledgement for Visix to reprint, publish, and/or post content samples on our website, user forum and/or in press releases related to the promotion of the Visix Expression Awards.
LIMIT THREE (3) ENTRIES PER AWARD CATEGORY PER ENTRANT.
JUDGING CRITERIA
Three (3) finalists and (1) winner in each award category will be chosen by a panel of judges who will assess entries against defined criteria for that category.
Judges will not consider entries that do not meet the eligibility guidelines. Finalists and winners will be notified via email. Prizes will be mailed within 4-6 weeks of judging.
ENTRY CHECKLIST
□ Submit your entry form via email by 5:00 p.m. (EST) on May 18, 2012. □ If submitting a content sample using any stock art/photography, clip art, or any other elements borrowed from an outside source – check the remix permission acknowledgement on the entry form.
□ For all entries, check the Visix reprint permission acknowledgement on the entry form. □ Attach your content sample in one of the specified formats listed under the category details. If your file is too large to email, use a file sharing site like www.Dropbox.com or provide an FTP link so we can download it. (No files over 20 MB will be accepted.) Email your entry to marketing@visix.com with the subject line: 2011 Expression Awards Entry – award category – organization name.
Submit a separate email for each entry.
You will receive an email confirming receipt for your entry. If entry items are missing, we cannot guarantee that we will inform you of the omissions and your entry may not be considered.
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