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Education Program
Show Us Your Best Work
Quark and The Art Institutes
2006 Graphic design competition winners
Students at The Art Institutes were asked to demonstrate their design skills and show off their creativity by creating a flyer, a poster, a book, or any other project using QuarkXPress® software.
Local winners received a Quark gift pack and a QuarkXPress 7 license and were then entered into a national competition to compete for three regional spots. Regional winners received a $1,000 credit at The Art Institutes Student Store.
Brett Whitham
The Art Institute of Las Vegas
“My design style is very simplistic. This project was an idea for a play held at the Arts Factory. I prefer the use of minimal colors, patterns and strong imagery to convey my ideas. With this project and many others I mainly use Quark for it's layout capabilities. It allows me to import links on the artboard individually and make any adjustments through Quark. This allows me to save hours upon hours with not needing to switch back and forth through numerous programs. I'm able to make any adjustments to both the imagery and typographical elements on the fly. The type handling tools and "step and repeat" also helped to layout everything proportionately.”
Nick Santore
The Art Institute of Illinois
“The piece I created in QuarkXPress is a credit card application for the company H&M. Once I found the dimensions of the piece I opened up a new project in QuarkXPress and set the custom size to the largest dimensions of the piece. I then placed in the guides to where each fold would need to be made and where certain sections of the piece would need to be divided. For the fold marks I went to edit and selected "dashes and stripes" to change the solid line to dashes. After this was all set, text boxes were placed into the piece and filled with the appropriate text. For the outside of the piece, which depicts the actual pocket, I brought in scans of an H&M shirt by placing the TIFF files into image boxes. After collecting everything for output, I also exported it as a PDF with crop marks. After getting it printed, the piece was cut out and scored at the indicated marks I had placed with the line tool in QuarkXPress. It was then folded together and a slit was placed for the lip to slide into it, keeping the pocket closed. ”
Fabian Sanchez
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
“I was given an assignment to create an item to bring awareness & revenue to a non-profit organization. My project consisted of a customized Monopoly board game that would help educate the public as well as bring in profit for the organization. I decided QuarkXPress was the ideal program to use because of the exact measurements I would need to create this board. First I created the exact size of the document using the document properties window. Once I had the board dimensions I used guides to outline the four corners, which were bigger than the boxes along the edge of the board. After creating a new layer I used the tables tool to create a box from one corner guide to the other guide and entered 1 row with 9 columns in the table properties, that gave me an evenly distributed amount of picture boxes from one corner to the other. Once all my pictures were placed I created another new layer for the text. An individual box was created for all four corners and the center square, which held the main image of a house being built.”
Education Program
Show Us Your Best Work
Quark and The Art Institutes
2006 Graphic design competition winners
Students at The Art Institutes were asked to demonstrate their design skills and show off their creativity by creating a flyer, a poster, a book, or any other project using QuarkXPress® software.
Local winners received a Quark gift pack and a QuarkXPress 7 license and were then entered into a national competition to compete for three regional spots. Regional winners received a $1,000 credit at The Art Institutes Student Store.
Brett Whitham
The Art Institute of Las Vegas
“My design style is very simplistic. This project was an idea for a play held at the Arts Factory. I prefer the use of minimal colors, patterns and strong imagery to convey my ideas. With this project and many others I mainly use Quark for it's layout capabilities. It allows me to import links on the artboard individually and make any adjustments through Quark. This allows me to save hours upon hours with not needing to switch back and forth through numerous programs. I'm able to make any adjustments to both the imagery and typographical elements on the fly. The type handling tools and "step and repeat" also helped to layout everything proportionately.”
Nick Santore
The Art Institute of Illinois
“The piece I created in QuarkXPress is a credit card application for the company H&M. Once I found the dimensions of the piece I opened up a new project in QuarkXPress and set the custom size to the largest dimensions of the piece. I then placed in the guides to where each fold would need to be made and where certain sections of the piece would need to be divided. For the fold marks I went to edit and selected "dashes and stripes" to change the solid line to dashes. After this was all set, text boxes were placed into the piece and filled with the appropriate text. For the outside of the piece, which depicts the actual pocket, I brought in scans of an H&M shirt by placing the TIFF files into image boxes. After collecting everything for output, I also exported it as a PDF with crop marks. After getting it printed, the piece was cut out and scored at the indicated marks I had placed with the line tool in QuarkXPress. It was then folded together and a slit was placed for the lip to slide into it, keeping the pocket closed. ”
Fabian Sanchez
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
“I was given an assignment to create an item to bring awareness & revenue to a non-profit organization. My project consisted of a customized Monopoly board game that would help educate the public as well as bring in profit for the organization. I decided QuarkXPress was the ideal program to use because of the exact measurements I would need to create this board. First I created the exact size of the document using the document properties window. Once I had the board dimensions I used guides to outline the four corners, which were bigger than the boxes along the edge of the board. After creating a new layer I used the tables tool to create a box from one corner guide to the other guide and entered 1 row with 9 columns in the table properties, that gave me an evenly distributed amount of picture boxes from one corner to the other. Once all my pictures were placed I created another new layer for the text. An individual box was created for all four corners and the center square, which held the main image of a house being built.”