Any work done while you were a student can be entered! It doesn’t necessarily have to have been completed at your school - it can be independent work and anything external of school.

 

You must enter a project into an Award of Specialty category in order to be eligible to enter an Award of Excellence.

 

You may enter all 4 projects into as many of the National Awards of Specialty as you think apply. So, for instance, you could enter a poster into the Specialty Award for Print but then also submit it for the National Awards for Typography, Concept Development, Strategic Design, Social Good, Story-telling and Typography. If you did, you would need to write a rationale for why the project should win each of these Awards.

 

Your app could be entered into the category for Digital Marketing. Or, if it relates in any way to a location, it could also be submitted into the Award for Placemaking. Or, if it synthesizes information in some way, it could also be entered into the Award for Information Design. And then the project could then be entered into the National Award for UX.

 

There are absolutely no restrictions for using stock imagery. The only requirement is that in your submission you list all of the materials that you did not design/create yourself including things like stock imagery.

 

Yes! Any full-time undergraduate student enrolled in either a College or University design-related program in Canada, or a Canadian student studying abroad may enter.

 

 

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