Design brief: Illustration of the Illinois Technology Ecosyst...

Dates

Starts:13-Oct-08 4:45 p.m. GMT

Ends:20-Oct-08 4:45 p.m. GMT

Awards

Award 1: $200, was awarded to SantosG...

Award 2: $200, was awarded to ufotofu

Formats: EPS,PSD,AI

Contract: Preview: crowdSPRING Contract

Materials: There are no materials for this project.

Creative brief

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The Illinois Technology Foundation works with other Illinois organizations to coordinate public and private programs that seek to fortify what we call the "Illinois Technology Ecosystem".

The Ecosystem contains all those components in the Illinois Technology arena that are interdependent. Here's a list of components that we've come up with so far:

Primary Components
Human Capital (IT workers/talent, fill jobs in Illinois, consume training)

Illinois Technology Foundation (facilitator -
strengthens connections between companies, students, academia and governmental efforts)

Corporations (consume talent, feed expertise to schools, create jobs)

Secondary Components
Investors

Start-ups

Universities

Primary & Secondary Schools

National Worker Pool

Career Training Centers

Here is what we need: The Foundation is currently working on two major projects: 1. funding an advanced technology high school in Chicago, and 2. building a network of businesses, universities and students who can connect and work together more efficiently.

We need an illustration of the Ecosystem to help explain our view of the Illinois Technology space.

We need this illustration to clearly portray how schools and businesses are interdependent.

Hopefully this illustration will help inspire greater involvement with the Foundation and investment towards its efforts to strengthen the ecosystem.

The illustration will be used at the top of this brochure:
http://www.thewebsitespinner.com/images/itfecos...

In the future we may include this illustration in presentations and on a website.

We don't yet have a logo for the foundation yet. So it would be great if some element of the illustration could later lend itself to an icon or logo representing the Illinois Technology Foundation.

Here are some ecosystem illustrations that make sense to us:
http://www.thewebsitespinner.com/images/eco1.gif
http://www.thewebsitespinner.com/images/eco2.jpg
http://www.thewebsitespinner.com/images/eco3.jpg
http://www.thewebsitespinner.com/images/eco4.jpg

Our target audience is primarily corporate and deep pocket donors. Secondary targets include all shareholders: students, companies, academia, and government.

Brief updates

16-Oct-08 9:41 p.m. GMT: To help clarify what we're looking for:

We need an illustration with 9 objects representing the "components of the ecosystem". Those objects might be buildings, schools and people.

The major objects are HUMAN CAPITAL, CORPORATIONS and the ILLINOIS TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION.

Additional objects that feed into the ecosystem need to represent:
- INVESTORS (maybe dollar signs) who provide funding for programs and start-ups, they make money when it all works
- START-UPS who are small technology businesses just opening and in need of strong technology talent to propel them forward
- the NATIONAL WORKER POOL represents sources of technology talent (a type of human capital) that might be attracted to our corporations and start-ups from all over the country
- local UNIVERSITIES need to attract students and turn out technology talent (another type of human capital)
- local PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS need to bring in expertise from technology corporations to help develop interest in young students. The Primary and Secondary schools feed the Universities.
- CAREER TRAINING CENTERS re-education local talent in the key areas desired by the technology corporations.

I want the relationships that I've described to be portrayed graphically (arrows?) with not many words.

The main message we want to get across to donors (Corporations) is that we understand they need a stronger technology talent pipeline of Human Capital and we (Illinois Technology Foundation) will help stregthen that pipeline by funding education and networking programs.

This is explained in words in the document, but I'm hoping your illustration will help simplify the message.

I hope I'm not overwhelming this project with details. Please let me know specifically what you need from me and I'll help in any way possible.

Illustration of the Illinois Technology Ecosystem a illustration project by mplett

Creative brief

Brief updates

Illustration of the Illinois Technology Ecosystem
a illustration project by mplett