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What The Font?

Because of great new apps like this WhatTheFont app for iPhone it's going to make it hard for us to pick interesting characters for students to identify in our font guessing game this year...
But don't think we're going to go easy on you all. Brush up on your knowledge of Accent, Decent, Dingbats and Serifs. We're going to have many more fun prizes this year for our open guessing games like Name that Font, and Name that Logo.

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Student "Show" preview

Just a little preview of this year's accepted entries, check back for more posting soon.
The full show will be presented at the conference when the Student Show Gallery opens on April 3rd.

Judging weekend Pics

Our judges vote anonymously by dropping coins into the cups. At the end of each round the volunteers tally the votes to determine each category's winner, and in the case of a tie the entries are set out for the judges to debate the best of category.

Accepted Entries

We just posted the list of accepted entries on the official NSS&C site. Go look, hurry!

My How You've Grown

See what these students are saying about last years National Student Show & Conference.

Book your hotel

This year's conference will be held at the Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel Book your hotel soon, rooms are filling up fast!

Keep checking back here on the blog for updates about fun stuff going on in the city during the conference weekend.

Conference Updates

We're currently finalizing the speakers and breakout sessions for the Conference and will be posting information on the official National Student Show & Conference website very soon. Thanks to everyone for checking in, we'll let you know when we post anything new to the site. We're super excited about this year's speakers and know you will be too!

Nice touch

As I mentioned before- how your entries are wrapped up for judging weekend does not affect how they will be judged whatsoever- but we absolutely love it when we get to open pretty packages like this one.


Thanks Andrea, Best of Luck in the show!

Don't cut me

Xacto blades in packages are NOT appreciated....
Be careful when packing!

Nice Package

The entries are rolling in! Only a few days left till the Feb. 25th deadline- hope your package makes it on time! While the envelope your mail you entries in does not affect the judging whatsoever, here are a few packages that we appreciated.

Meet your Judges

We have quite the impressive lineup for this years student show judging weekend:Felix Sockwell- designer & illustrator, FelixSockwell INC.
Miguel Caballero- copywriter & ACD at DDB/LA
Carolyn Keer- art director, Anthropologie
Rex Peteet- Founding partner, principal designer, Sibley/ Peteet Design
Scott Harben- photographer/ Creative Director

Wake up your Brain

We are excited to welcome Stefan Mumaw as our opening keynote speaker this year. For those of you who have attended the conference in previously, this presentation is going to be a little different...
To kick off the creative weekend Stefan is going to wake up our left brain with a few creative exercises modeled after his book "Caffeine for the Creative Mind"

Get your entries in!

The time has come- print your best work, tend to your xacto wounds and mail your entries in pronto!
The deadline has been extended to February 25th.

Please mail your entries to:

ReelFX,
Attn: Wendy Teague
301 N Crowdus St., Dallas, TX 75226