7th Annual National Student Show & Conference

Registration is now closed for the 7th Annual National Student Show & Conference. Tickets will be available at the door.

Our three day conference is packed full of events and workshops to get you inspired, and ready to be hired. You won’t want to miss our lineup of rockstar keynote speakers including Mig Reyes (Threadless), Kate Bingaman-Burt (Obsessive Consumption), Dan Covert and Andre Andreev (Dress Code) and many more! As well as breakout sessions and workshops, panel discussions, studio tours and parties. Not to mention a portfolio review by some of the industry’s leading professionals and a job fair for seniors.

Map to Dallas Convention Center

2011 Student Show Judges

• Yvette Wheeler, RBMM
• Fredrik Broden, Photographer
• Lauren Ranke, Wieden+Kenedy
• Marc Burcheardt
• Chris Bettin, TM Advertising

2011 Selected entries

2011 National Student Show & Conference Schedule

Thursday March 31

12:00pm-1:00pm- Check in Students for studio tours

1:00pm-5:00pm- Studio Tours- DART

Friday April 1st

8:00am-5:30pm Show Room Open/ Registration

9:30am-10:00am: Opening Welcome

10:00am- 11:00am Keynote Speaker- Bryony Gomez

11:30am-1:00pm Round Table Discussions

1:00pm- 2:30pm Lunch on own

2:00pm-5:00pm Portfolio reviews (underclassmen only)

Breakout Sessions  1A-1D

2:30pm-3:30p – Don Clampitt- Clampitt Paper School

2:30pm-3:30p - Hank Richardson: Portfolio school vs University

2:30pm-3:30p – How to write copy, sorta: Wayne Geyer

2:30pm-3:30p – Flaunt: Portfolios- Bryony Gomez

Breakout Sessions 2A-2D

4:00pm-5:00pm- Motion is the new print!- Barton

4:00pm-5:00pm- Color Dynamics Printing Demo- Trehan

4:00pm-5:00pm- Quick Thinking: Logo Competition

4:00pm-5:00pm- Zines, Winners! Press – DIY publishing is easy!

5-6:30pm- Break

6:30pm-7:30pm Keynote Speaker- Dan & Andre of Dress Code 

8:30-10:00pm- Mohawk Party off site at Tractorbeam

Saturday April 2nd

8:00am-5:30pm Show Room Open/ Registration

9:30am: Good Morning Welcome

10:00am- 11:00am Keynote Speaker- Kate Bingham-Burt

11:00am-11:30- Break

11:00am-3:00pm Job Fair/ Portfolio Review (graduating Seniors ONLY)

Breakout Sessions 3A-3D

11:30am-12:30pm- Glen Griffin- How Advertising’s Big Ideas are Born

11:30am-12:30pm- Dan & Andre- Mistakes, Everyone Makes Them

11:30am-12:30pm- Jill Broussard Photography/ food styling

11:30am-12:30pm- Quick Thinking: Poster Competition

12:30pm-2:00pm- Lunch on own

Breakout Sessions 4A-4D

2:00pm-3:00pm- How Open Minds Can Open Doors- Matt George

2:00pm-3:00pm The vital friendship between an AD and a photographer

2:00pm-3:00pm- Boxal packaging demo- Aaron Opsal and Blake Wright

2:00pm-3:00pm- Mobil app design- Jason Franzen

3:30pm-4:30pm- Keynote Speaker- - Mig Reyes of Threadless

6:30pm-8:30pm- Awards Gala