Category:Graphics Design Department

Graphics Team

The graphics team is responsible for creating marketing material for con as well as badge designs and the con book. We take the submitted artwork and use it to create our designs.

If you are new to the Graphics Team, check out the New Artist Primer.

Requirements

• Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or InDesign
• Accepting to critiques and changes to your work
• Sign a contract licensing us to use your work
• Have access to the internet and Dropbox and Bitrix
• Have regular access to necessary Adobe software (preferably on a personal computer, but if you use your school's computer that's fine as long as you can access it regularly)

Responsibilities

• Create/Develop/Refine badge, fliers, and con book designs in a timely manner
• Review and suggest changes to other piece marketing material
• Use submitted artwork in your design
• Play nice with the team
• Throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks
• Save files to Drop Box and/or Bitrix (including work in progress)
• Save changes as new files, and follow the naming conventions for file changes

Important information

• New Artist Primer (color space, size, DPI, bleed, etc)
• File Saving and Sharing on the Graphics Team (includes information about the naming conventions)
• SNAFU Con Mascots

Annual To Do List

• Fliers (Due ASAP)
  • 4x6
  • business card (2x3.5)
  • 11x17 (Can design a little later, like mid-summer, but the earlier we can get them the better)
• Website (Due ASAP)
  • Background
  • Mascot
  • Other Elements
• Social Media (Due ASAP)
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Bluesky
• Button/Pins (Some due ASAP for tabling needs, but may have other design needs throughout the year)
• T-shirts (Due by about a month before con)
• Badges (Due by about a month before con)
• Signage / Banners (Mostly due by about a month before con, but may have needs throughout the year or last-minute needs)
• Con Book (Specific due dates roughly a month before con)
• Coloring Book Pages (Due within a couple weeks of con)
• Other items as needed