Everyone's seen it. The famous quote from a famous person -- some of which you've never heard of, but it's motivational or relatable so it's admired anyway -- typed up in a neat font with an inspiring photo behind it with a dozen "likes" or "retweets."

This type of artwork can be seen all over the Internet.

Quotes like "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" by Mahatma Ghandi or "I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" by Thomas Edison are prime examples of these inspiring quotes that can be seen posted to Facebook users' walls or pinned onto someone's "Motivational Quotes" Pinterest board.

While these quotes may inspire some to have a fresh start in life or to keep reinventing a product until it's just right, these kinds of quotes inspired the members of Southeast Missouri State University's American Institute of Graphic Arts student group to design a competition.

The competition takes advantage of the inspiration factor of famous quotes and allows students to create art pieces through typography.

The competition is called Notable Quotable.

"It is a typography poster competition, so what that means is it works off of the title 'Notable Quotable' so participants can make posters based off of any quote that they like or that gives them inspiration," AIGA president Krista Miller said.

The only requirements were to include a notable quote and exhibit innovative typography in the overall design of an 11-by-17 inch quality print. A $10 entry fee was charged for the first entry and each additional entry was an additional $5.

"Anybody can participate," Miller said. "We sent it out to professors at universities that had graphic design in any state that touches Missouri."

Entries had to be sent in on a CD-R by Sept. 23 so AIGA could ship them to the juror, Lee Ferrell, to be judged. Those that were accepted by Ferrell will be featured in the Notable Quotable exhibition Nov. 4-21 in the River Campus Art Gallery.

Ferrell, a Southeast alumnus, has served as the creative director for BuySafe, an e-commerce company, and for Cross Country Healthcare. While at Cross Country Healthcare, he earned the company its first creative advertising award, the ADDY. Today, Ferrell operates his self-named business.

AIGA received approximately 20 submissions with most of them being from the Iowa area as well as one from Illinois and some from Southeast students, Miller said.

From the 16 submissions accepted by Ferrell to be featured in the exhibition, four of them were Southeast students. The students are Tori Pfau, Rosie Williams, Andrea Ernst and Brook Dohogne.

Having their work displayed in the Notable Quotable exhibition gives the winners more benefits than just bragging rights.

"Graphic design is so competitive," AIGA faculty sponsor Louise Bodenheimer said. "It always helps a student to throw their hat into that ring to see how they stand up against other students. To even go into the whole procedure of entering an exhibition or entering a competition, it takes some of the sting out with that anxiety, and I think they're able to showcase what they're able to do and get feedback from other people other than instructors or other students in the class. When you have other people from the community respond to their work, there's nothing like it."

This year is the second time AIGA has hosted Notable Quotable, and although they've made improvements after going through the process before, Miller and Bodenheimer still see much room for improvement.

The opening reception for the Notable Quotable exhibit is from 5 - 7 p.m. on Nov. 1 in the River Campus Art Gallery. The exhibition will be on display Nov. 4-21.