:: Category 18: Visual Communications/Infographics (N or Y, carry-in) ::
Nature of the contest
You will submit a hard copy example of your entry (color or black and white). Your entry should provide additional information/insight to a story or coverage rather than just be a visual. It should have appeared in either a newspaper, a literary magazine or yearbook spread; please identify which.Your entry must have appeared in your publication during the previous year or be slated for publication during the current school year and should not have been entered in the previous year’s WJEA contest. Include actual tearsheet for a newspaper or literary magazine entry and a tearsheet or photocopy for a yearbook entry. Entries may include sidebar elements, charts, graphics, illustrations and other non-text storytelling elements. Emphasis is primarily on storytelling contest and secondarily on presentation. Bring your own entry to the contest room and remain for a two-hour, small group critique session.
What the judges will look for
Creativity in the relation between the information given and the graphics/visuals used to convey the information to the reader. Entries should show sophisticated use of software and/or artistic talent.
