The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition - which showcases individual and group projects created with industry - leading Adobe creative software - honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.

International prestige and valuable prizes
The 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards competition is open to students at post - secondary institutions in 30 countries throughout the world. First - place winning entries will receive US$5,000, a trip to attend the awards ceremony, valuable Adobe software products, and studio tours.

Official rules
The contest is open to students enrolled in visual arts programs at accredited institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey. Projects must be original works created primarily with Adobe or Macromedia software.

Categories
Individuals and groups may enter projects in the following categories: Animation, Digital Illustration, Digital Photography, Environmental Graphics and Packaging, Interactive and Web Design, Live Action, Motion Graphics, Print Design Multi - Page, and Print Design Single Page.

Prizes
First - place individual winners will receive US$5,000, airfare and hotel accommodations in San Francisco, a total of seven Adobe or Macromedia software products of their choice, and more. First - place group winners will receive US$5,000 (to be split among designated team members); airfare and hotel accommodations for the designated team leader; either Adobe Creative Suite® 2 Premium, Macromedia® Studio 8, or Adobe Production Studio Premium software for each designated team member; and more. Other individual finalists and the designated leaders of groups that are finalists will receive airfare and hotel accommodations in San Francisco, software, and more.

Studio tours
Find out about the leading San Francisco firms that will give individual finalists and designated leaders of group finalists an invaluable inside look at exciting challenges and possibilities encountered by creative professionals every day.

Judges
Entries for the 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards will be reviewed and scored online in the first round by an independent panel of six judges who are among the world's leading design professionals. Judges will review a select number of entries invited for submission in print or digital format to determine the finalists and winners in each category.

Board members
Read brief biographies of the distinguished Adobe Design Achievement Awards board members who help keep the awards the world's premier design and film competition for higher education students.