On Assignment
| The Society of illustrators goes digital |
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We recently finished a program for the Society of Illustrators in New York that's worth hearing about.
For many years the good people at the society have managed annual student competitions. Schools from all over the world would gather up student works, have those works photographed and then send in their entries as slides. Thousands of slides would then be loaded into carousels and projected for the judges in New York. The slides had to be marked for each entry, and they had to be displayed to the judges in a completely random way, so that no individual school was grouped together as the slides were shown.
The end of slides
The call came to us to save the society from the continuing heartache of slides. It was time to get this business streamlined, online and digital.
It had to do a bunch of stuff!
- Each school gets their own account - they create these themselves.
- School admin adds students and then the images - uploaded to the server
- Each school generates their own invoice - based on number of entries
- Judging takes place online - The judges can be anywhere at all, logged in and viewing the entries.
- The awards need to be assigned - and immediately seen by the schools.
- Final art needs to be collected for the print edition - and uploaded to the art director.
- The show goes online - flip a switch and let people see the results.
- The results of all past shows are archived - we love data.
It's working thank goodness
Here's the site.
For the 2008 student competition, the society got over 6,000 entries through their new online manager. Lot's of flexibility was also programmed in for future use as well - the society can also use the same program to manage competitions that are from individual artists, where each participant gets their own account. Cool stuff and a great group of people to work with too.
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