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Participants

Participation is open to young people studying for a qualification in vocational education who have been born in 1991 or after.

In General

The competition organisers reserve the right to make changes in the competition arrangements in the task descriptions and timetables. Changes will be posted immediately www.taitaja2011.fi

More detailed instructions will be sent to finalists along with their competition invitations.

General Category Description

This category is based on the curriculum-based training of a basic vocational degree, the curriculum being that of Publishing and Printing and the study programme of a Layout Designer (graphic designing and editing, and the mastery of publishing and image processing software). The tasks are based on the requirements of level 3 (on a scale of 1-3). During the competition, the participants will produce a body of printing work of three 2-4 -colour print designs. They will design a graphic layout and use Macintosh workstations for implementation, using up-to-date graphic software and taking printing requirements into account.

The designs of the contestants will be projected to the audience during the competition.

Skills requirements that the successful competitor should master:

-the command of graphic, image processing and pagination programs and shareware
-vector pictures and pixel graphics
-file management, taking into account printing technology quality requirements
-the basics of typography
-photography/photo materials production
-data transfer

Description of task, study points, maximum time of completion
Evaluation 1, Evaluation 2, Evaluation 3
60 study points, time of completion 18 hours (max. 18 hr)
Preliminary Evaluation Methods

The judges will decide the ranking of the competitors by giving points to each competitor. The World Skills CIS point system will be used in which the maximum points for each category is 100.

The performances are evaluated every day, the final evaluation criteria
In case that a competitor risks his/her own or someone else's safety, it is possible to suspend the competition.

Performance will be evaluated also during the competition.

The competition jury in their meetings will decide final evaluation criteria.

Evaluation Scale
-print design 30%
-technical skills 70%

The number of competitors is 8.

Equipment and devices

-Macintosh iMac 24" workstation (Mac OS X 10.5.x)
-4-colour printer for ex. Canon Image Press
-Adobe Fontfolio

Programs:

- Adobe Creative Suite 4.

PMS fans

The competition organisers will provide the competitor with Pantone fans.

Personal Tools

The competitor brings the drafting tools that they need.

Materials

The material needed to complete the task will be given out along with the task instructions.

-Macintosh iMac 24" workstation (Mac OS X 10.5.x)
-4-colour printer for ex. Canon Image Press
-Adobe Fontfolio

Jaakko Mäkeläinen, Jyväskylän ammattiopisto/Tekniikka ja liikenne

Ronja Pölkki, Jyväskylän ammattiopisto/Tekniikka ja liikenne

Pia Ropo, Tampereen ammattiopisto

Veli-Ville Rauhala, Jyväskylän ammattiopisto/Hyvinvointi ja kulttuuri

Laura Lintinen, Jyväskylän ammattiopisto/Hyvinvointi ja kulttuuri

Riina Lehikoinen, Pohjois-Karjalan ammattiopisto Outokumpu

Teemu Sandblom, Turun ammatti-instituutti

Idia Erharuyi, Omnian ammattiopisto

Judges

Pasi Osala, Suomen Graafiset Palvelut Oy
Lassi Jalonen, Suomen Graafiset Palvelut Oy
Vesa Kärkkäinen, Mainostoimisto KIXIT Oy
Kristiina Kaarakainen, Mediasepät