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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The closing date for submissions in the Australian Academy of design’s Poster Design Prize has been extended to 3 September. Further details are below, or for more information visit our website at www.designacademy.edu.au <BR>
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There is a first prize of $1000, an exhibition of entries, along with potential press coverage in local school zone and the chance of display across Metro’s train station poster cases.<BR>
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<B>theme: “Metronisation… the future of Melbourne’s Metro</B>” <BR>
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With the car becoming an increasingly less reliable form of transport for the growing metropolis we live in, what vision do you have for Melbourne’s Metro in 50 years time? What would it look like in 2062? How would you travel with it? What would the stations be like? With the pace technology and cities grow at, the only barrier here is your imagination.<BR>
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Entries close 3 September, 2012<BR>
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Secondary School Students years 10-12 <BR>
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First Place: $1000 cash prize from Metro<BR>
Second Place: $500 cash prize from Metro<BR>
Third Place: $250 cash prize from Metro<BR>
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how to enter:<BR>
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Download an entry form from www.designacademy.edu.au in the News & Events Column<BR>
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Email your entry to <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="awards@designacademy.edu.au">awards@designacademy.edu.au</a></U></FONT> and be sure to include: <BR>
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• an image of your poster in low resolution jpeg or pdf <BR>
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• completed entry form with artist’s release form <BR>
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• artist’s statement of no more than 150 words. This statement should explain how the work addresses the theme <BR>
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• completed model release form (if you used a model) <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#000077"><FONT FACE="Arial Narrow">Joanne Brodie<BR>
<B>Australian Academy of Design<BR>
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</B>Campus<B> 220 Ingles Street Port Melbourne VIC<BR>
</B>Mail <B>PO Box 5200 South Melbourne </B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial Narrow"><B><FONT COLOR="#000076">VIC </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000077">3205 Australia<BR>
</FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#000077">Phone <B>+61 3 9676 9000 <BR>
</B>Fax <B>+61 3 9676 9066 <BR>
</B>Web <B>www.designacademy.edu.au <BR>
</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000076">Email </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><B><U><a href="jeb@aad.edu.au">jeb@aad.edu.au</a></U></B></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#000076"> <BR>
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