The new theme is this: Abraham Lincoln. He turned 200 this month. Here’s your chance to show him and everyone that you care. Or that you don’t, whatever. These are some important things about Abe to consider:
1. Everyone loves him
2. He had a really high pitched voice
3. He was really tall
4. Thinking about his assassination makes me cry
5. He made a cameo in a Star Trek TOS episode where he helped Spock & Kirk fight evil.

So, do what you want. There’s so much to work with here – The Gettysburg Address, having a cool beard, top hats, slavery , the Civil War, compassion, some people say that he was gay and then other people say that he wasn’t.You know all about him, you love him.

Costumes, drawings, songs, traditional American food in the first half of the 19th century, reimagining the Lincoln postal stamps that just came out and really aren’t that cool? Work That.

This one’s simple:  just pick a movie in your DVD collection and create something inspired by it.  It could be a drawing of your favorite Ghostbuster, a song inspired by that time Aladdin split his stolen bread with the street rat kids, a sculpture of Vito Corleone with an orange in his mouth, anything.  It would be nice if it wasn’t something based on your favorite DVD, otherwise we’d all end up with Lord of the Rings fanart, right?  Right.

The hope is that since you went through all the trouble of buying the DVD, you’re passionate enough about it to want to make some art.  And please, nothing from your Laserdisc and/or HD-DVD collections.  That’s just ridiculous.

“That’s right, woodchuck chuckers, it’s Groundhog Daayyy!”

Groundhog Day also happens to be one of the best movies of the latter part of the twentieth century. There, I said it. If you haven’t seen it, please do. Right now. To sum it up in a sentence, Bill Murray is a weatherman who, for unknown reason, keeps reliving Groundhog Day and also he’s in love with Andie MacDowell. As Biggie would say, “If you don’t know, now you know.”

Instructions

Do with this as you see fit. Obviously, you could play around with repetition or variations on a theme. Or else you could of course make something about whistle pigs. Maybe you just want to craft an ode to Bill Murray or Harold Ramis? Hell, you could do something about Andie MacDowell or Chris Elliott for all I care.

Every classroom had ‘em: inspirational posters. How else were we to know that “ENTHUSIASM IGNITES GREATNESS” or that “QUITTERS NEVER WIN.” And the motivational fortitude didn’t stop on our classroom walls. The secrets to success were everywhere: waiting rooms, libraries, even our parents’ place of buisness. Who could ever forget Mom’s favorite, “HANG IN THERE BABY.”

Instructions

Create one or more works based off of a line from a motivational poster. This may require some research. “Hang in there baby” is an obvious candidate for this, but certainly exciting subject material. Other lines we’ve come across include, “THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK,” “Math=Success,” and “FRIENDS ARE CHOCOLATE CHIPS IN THE COOKIE OF LIFE.” You may also come up with a short inspirational saying of your own.

Always remember, poster design is just one of thousands of acceptable formats for submission. You could make a PSA, a T-shirt, an edgy Karate Kid-esque montage song, whatever!