Design An Ad Document Center

Published: Thursday, Jan. 03, 2008


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Welcome to the Design An Ad Document Center

The information on this web page will assist you with lesson planning and participation for the Design An Ad student competition. Some of these documents are copyrighted materials. They may be downloaded and copied for use in your classroom. Please do not use these documents in a publication or on a web site without the written permission of the author(s).

All of the documents are in Adobe Reader format (sometimes known as "PDF documents"). You will need Adobe Reader to open these files. Click here to download a free copy of Adobe Reader.


Forms

  • Timeline for the 2009 Design An Ad contest (<1 MB) Download
  • Contest Rules for the 2009 Design An Ad contest (<1 MB) Download
  • The News Ad Vantage teacher's guide, grades 4-12 (2.5 MB) Download
  • Student Identification Form One of these forms must be attached to every Design An Ad entry. (<1 MB) Download

Prizes

The top four ad design's in the three categories will receive the following prizes;

      1st Place-- $100 check
      2nd Place-- $75 check
      3rd Place -- $50 check
      Honorable Mention -- $25 check

The prize will be mailed to the recepients and be in the form of a check


Templates

The following templates have the various ad sizes already measured out. Students may use these templates as a guide when creating their ads, or they may create their ads on a plain white sheet of paper (being careful to follow the dimensions on the ad instruction form).

  • Quarter Page Ad. 5 inches wide x 9.5 inches tall (<1 MB) Download
  • Half Page Ad. 10 inches wide x 9.5 inches tall.*

* This ad size is too big to fit on a regular sheet of paper, so a template does not exist. Students will have to create their own template on a large sheet of plain white paper. Draw a border (please measure carefully). Then create your winning ad inside the border!


Student Assignments