2012 SKETCH SHOWDOWN
hosted by AIA Philadelphia Associates

ARE YOU AN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN STUDENT OR PROFESSIONAL?
Show off your fierce sketching to the architecture and design community!

• Winners will be selected in three (3) categories: White Paper Cocktail Napkin, Mixed Medium, and Student.
• Winners and finalists will be exhibited at the AIA Bookstore - Washington Square, located on 7th and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia, PA.
• Winners and finalists will be featured on the professional design feedback site The Designated Sketcher (http://thedesignatedsketcher.com) in the online Sketch Gallery.
• Winners will receive $25 gift card to the AIA Bookstore & Design Center and used on the official AIA Philadelphia Associates Committee/Young Architects Forum postcards.

To Enter

• Unleash your sketch genius to a 5 inch by 5 inch white paper cocktail napkin.
• Not feeling the white paper cocktail napkin? Submit your sketch on a 5 inch by 5 inch piece on mylar, vellum, cardboard, or any other fibrous material for our Mixed Medium category.
• Sketches should be architecture-oriented drawn specifically for this competition.
• Use ink or ballpoint pen on all white paper cocktail napkin entries. Mixed Medium category is open to other mediums not to exceed 1/16 of inch from the surface.
• Submissions are limited to six (6) sketches per registrant. Make sure to number and include your name on the back of your entry. Considering your submissions as a series? Please include instructions for placement in exhibition with your mailed entries.
• Register online using the "Register Now!" link below.
• Registration Fee: $5 per participant. All high school student registrants: FREE.
• All sketches must be postmarked by July 20, 2012, and sent to:
          Center for Architecture
          AIA Associates Committee
          1218 Arch Street
          Philadelphia, PA 19107
• For more information or questions email assocaia.designcompetitions@gmail.com.