The K-State AI Symposium committee invites students at K-State to submit designs for a T-shirt for this year’s symposium. There will be two categories of art: human-made art and AI-generated art. A winner will be selected from each category.
You must create a design or image that represents this year’s symposium theme: Humans and the Machine. The design should have a transparent background or, if a background is used in the design/image, be suitable for printing on a T-shirt.
Submissions
- Students who create human-made art must disclose their process for creation.
- Students who create AI-generated art must submit the prompt used and the name of the generative AI tool used to create the design, as well as their process for creation.
Eligibility
- You must be a current undergraduate or graduate student at K-State.
- You may only submit one (1) design/image to the contest.
A prize will be awarded to the selected winner in each category, and their design/image will be featured on this year’s T-shirts. Runner-up designs will be made into stickers, available at the symposium. The winner and runners-up will be contacted by email.
For more information on the K-State AI Symposium and to draw inspiration for your design/image, please visit our event website.
Design specifications
Please follow the guidelines below when submitting your design.
- The human-made design may be created using any medium but must be drawn and designed by the artist (no AI tools permitted).
- The AI-generated design created by the AI tool may be edited or submitted as is, but the prompt and tools used must be disclosed.
- Use the highest resolution possible.
- Please note the design will be printed on either a white or K-State purple T-shirt.
- The design submitted should be a stand-alone image, without a T-shirt mock-up.
- Designs submitted on T-shirt mock-ups will be discarded.
- PNG file format is preferred.
- Alternatively, an SVG or Illustrator file is acceptable.
On-campus resources
Submission requirements
- Submit the design/image file following the design specifications.
- If submitting human-made art, please describe the medium and/or software used.
- If submitting AI-generated art, please submit the full prompt(s) used to generate the design from the AI generative tool(s) and whether the image was modified after AI generation.
- Submit a short statement about if/how the design/image was altered.
- Submit the name(s) and link(s) to the generative AI tool(s) used to generate the design/image.
- Submit your full name and K-State email.
Submission deadline
- All submissions are due before midnight on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Rights and license agreements
- Prizes are for original artwork created for exclusive use of the competition. Submissions should be the artist’s own original work and should not infringe upon any third party’s intellectual property. If submissions include elements such as images, graphics and other materials created by others (e.g., in a collage or mixed-media work), the artist must have the appropriate rights or licenses to use them.
- The winning designs will be printed on T-shirts and stickers. Upon submitting your design to this contest, you give K-State permission to print and distribute this design under a royalty-free license agreement. Artists still reserve all copyrights to their designs.
If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to reach out to Alice Anderson at aliceanderson@k-state.edu. We would be happy to provide any necessary support to help you participate.
