Graphic Design Scholarship

Influence Print Annual Award for Excellence: Graphic Design Scholarship

Are you a graphic or visual design student? Do you think you have an award-winning design? Every year we award one talented student a $1,000 college scholarship. Will that student be you?

As a commercial printing company in New York City, we’ve seen all kinds of design across the years. Some of those designs are out of this world and some, well, are, ahem quite earthly. In order to further support and encourage the graphic design community, we created an annual graphic/visual design scholarship for students majoring in graphic design or related applied arts and who have exceptional creative abilities.

All submitted works must be digitally created and based in visual communication design such as:

  • Graphic design
  • Industrial design
  • Advertising
  • Animation
  • Illustration
  • Drawing
  • Typography
  • 3D design
  • Branding

The winner gets their design featured on our website, a site visited by some of New York City’s leading print buyers, creative directors, production managers, designers and graphic artists.

The winner also receives a large-format (up to 96×48 inch) copy of their work, printed on our state-of-the-art Epson Surecolor high resolution printer (free of charge, of course).

Student Eligibility and Details

  • Students must be a US Citizen or Permanent Legal Resident of the United States and may not be an associate (employee) of any division of Jurist Influence Group or Influence Print.
  • Students must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate at an accredited 2-year or 4-year college or university for the academic 2022/2023 year and have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.75 on a 4-point scale.

  • Scholarship is currently only open to incoming freshmen and undergraduate students.

  • Submission deadline is December 31, 2022 at midnight EST.

Judging Criteria

Design Quality

Design Creativity

Design’s ability to create an emotional response

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    The Fine Print

    College/University Approval

    The institution must be accredited and listed on the official website of the US Department of Education. Applicants attending military academies are ineligible for this scholarship. All school transfers are subject to accreditation approval.

    Responsibilities of Recipients

    The recipient must be actively enrolled full-time as a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior for the entire academic year without interruption, barring illness, emergency or military service.

    It is the recipient’s responsibility to verify receipt of funds with their designated institution and notify Influence Print should the award check not arrive within 30 days from the issue date.

    Responsibilities of Influence Print

    Influence Print doesn’t collect information from visitors participating in this scholarship program in any way other than specified on the scholarship’s official rules page. Contact information submitted through application will not be used for any solicitations or extraneous emails and will not be shared with any third-party entities. Influence Print will retain the right to use all submitted artwork  for the sole purpose of promotion of the Influence Print Award for Design Excellence Scholarship. All submissions may be copied, reposted or displayed online by Influence Print, in whole or part, without notification. The artist(s) retains all rights to their artwork.

    Distribution of Scholarship Funds

    The selected recipient will receive a one-time $1,000 educational scholarship to be applied to qualified expenses, including undergraduate tuition, fees, books and on-campus room and board. Payments issued by Influence Print are made payable to the student’s approved college or university and mailed directly to the accredited college or university’s Financial Aid or Bursar’s office.

    Previous Winners

    Erin Miller

    2019 scholarship winner

    Erin is attending Savannah College of Art and Design and tells us “With this scholarship provided by Influence Print, I will be able to continue my studies in my degree program of Virtual and Augmented Reality. This scholarship will give me the opportunity to succeed in achieving my goal of aiding the medical field in ground-breaking technology that aids those with chronic conditions through the supplemental care of Virtual Reality.”

    About her design, “Empowered”

    “My digital piece, ‘Empowered’ is meant to emulate how I feel when I create art that I enjoy. My strongest emotions are tied to my art, and how I feel directly correlates to the emotion that is placed within my art. I believe art allows everyone to connect to the diverse experiences of others. The emotion I wish to capture with this piece is the feeling of strength and confidence in women. I placed the women front and center to express that she is the center of this piece, and that her surroundings affect the light in which she is portrayed. The theme of my composition is to show the modern woman, empowered by the rights she has to work for equal pay, to be treated with respect, and confident in her ability to do well in her surroundings. The light in her eyes and the smile on her face is meant to convey that the future is bright, that she is looking past the viewer towards a hopeful time ahead.”