Vans Custom Culture Contest!

Watch this first!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1BO9bE3o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK3_XcHR_58

Research:

http://www.vans.com/

http://sites.vans.com/customculture

http://www.vans.com/article_detail/custom-culture-2015.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=vans+custom+culture&safe=active&es_sm=91&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YYQRVfv0A8TloATq84CoCA&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1875&bih=920&surl=1

Vans Custom Culture Shoe Design Competition -
High school art classes across the US are invited to compete in a shoe customization contest that grows on a state to regional to national level, culminating in a high-visibility event in New York this June.
Vans staff will select 10 high schools from each region (North/South/East/Wet/California) to compete for a spot in the regional finals.
The semi-finalists will be posted here where the public will vote to determine 5 finalists. A panel of judges including Vans artists and athletes will then choose the winner at a final event in New York.
Those five schools will be given a travel budget to come to New York for the final showcase in June of 2013.

Shoe Design Template available - PDF or below.
Each student creates a design using Photoshop or Illustrator for each of the four shoes (below) for a total of four designs. We will then vote on the best design for each shoe and will then paint and photograph the actual shoes when we receive them..

Prizes: Free trip to New York, a boatload of cash, etc.
Link for website and more info: http://www.vans.com/customculture/

Turn In:
Four different shoe designs, four different submissions:
Vans will furnish high school with one (1) of each of the
following styles of sneakers (blank/white color; size 9): Slip-Ons;
Authentics; SK8-Hi’s; 106s.

High school participates by customizing each of the four (4) sneakers to
reflect each of the following themes: 

art; music; action sports; local flavor

One (1) sneaker style must be devoted to each theme, with
all four (4) themes complementing or otherwise relating to one
another so as to form a single statement/message.

  

 

10 Absolute Facts about Copyright... Sort Of

or... When In Doubt, Throw It Out!

1. Your work: You own the copyright (the right to use and reproduce your work) from the second you create the work (press the shutter, click the record button, etc) until and unless you assign any of your rights to someone else.

2. Work for Hire: If you’re an employee of a company for whom you are generating images, music etc. the copyrights to that material belong to the company. 

3. Freelance Work: You own the rights to any images/music/written material you make during a freelance assignment unless you have agreed to sell some or all of the rights to the client.

4. Ideas: You can’t copyright an idea (only the actual production of an idea).

5. Registering a Copyright: There is a procedure for registering your materials in the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress.  There is a small fee to do so but registered copyrights will give you a large advantage should you need to sue someone who infringed on your copyright.

6. © You do not have to place the copyright symbol with your name and “year created” near your published or printed materials- but if you do it’s easier to nail someone for infringement on your copyright if you go to court.

7. Infringement: A fashionable flourish along sleeves or perhaps the seam of your pants that was popular in the 60’s. (And especially: when someone uses copyright protected material without permission it is illegal and called an “infringement”).

8. Internet: If someone swipes your picture/song/video from the internet and uses it for their own purposes, it is a copyright infringement. 

9. Public Domain: Pictures, compositions and other “works” whose copyright protection has expired (old stuff) or “works” that were never covered by copyright law (really old stuff) are not copyright protected and are considered in the “public domain” thus can be legally used by anyone.

10. Fair Use: Exceptions to copyright protection include newspapers using copyrighted materials without permission for reporting and teachers who make multiple copies of copyrighted materials for classroom distribution.  There also seems to be some wiggle room with using copyrighted materials for portfolios, especially student portfolios.