Our shows are complete for this year. Thanks to everyone for entering and to the winners, job well done. Our next competition will be in February 2009 and our annual with this year's winners will be available at the end of this year.

Congratulations to the winners!

The judges have made their decision, the votes have been tallied and the results are in. Out of nearly 4,000 entries we'll have 200 winners exhibited in the annual.

Voting was tough as always but as always the judges were unanimous in their selections for the top winners. To be accepted into the show, your work must have received a majority of the judge's votes. Unlike many shows there were no really poor entries so that made it even tougher for the judges to cast their votes.

To receive a medal in our show an entry must have had more than a majority of judges vote for the piece as well as having one or more judges list it as their favorite. Our Best of Show winner received more than the majority of votes as well as a majority of the judge's favorites votes. Not every category warranted a medal based on our criteria.

Best of Show
Monika Aichele, 3D

Gold
Emiliano Ponzi, Unpublished
Edel Rodriguez, Advertising
Mark Ulriksen, Editorial

Silver
Paul Blow, Editorial
Marc Burckhardt, Gallery
Karen Klassen, Editorial
Christian Northeast, Book
Tim O'Brien, Advertising
Emiliano Ponzi, Editorial
Emiliano Ponzi, Editorial

Bronze
John Craig, Editorial
Tatsuro Kiuchi, Editorial
Tatsuro Kiuchi, Editorial

The Winners

Armin Abmeier*
Steve Adams
Lisa Adams*
Monika Aichele
Showko Akane*
A. Richard Allen*
David Armario
Lisel Ashlock*
Ana Bagayan
Scott Bakal*
Andrew Bannecker*
Justin Bartlett
Wesley Bedrosian
Robbi Behr
Daniel Bejar*
Orit Bergman
Mark Bischel*
Paul Blow*
Jens Bonnke
Darren Booth
Jan Bowman
Julia Breckenreid
BRENB
Owen Brozman
Nigel Buchanan
Marc Burckhardt*
Rachel Burgess
Mark Burrier
Jonathan Burton*
SooJin Buzelli
Chris Buzelli*
Jill Calder
Nancy Carpenter
Q. Cassetti*
Marcos Chin
Joe Ciardiello*
Greg Clarke
Jim Cohen
Matthew Cook
Timothy Cook
Dave Cooper
David Cowles*
John Craig*
Andre Da Loba
Paul Dallas
Hugh D'Andrade*
Lucy Davey
Nancy Davis
David De Ramon
Nick Dewar*
Sandra Dionisi
Valero Doval
Adam Doyle
Penelope Dullaghan*
Katherine Dunn
Daniel Egneus
Elke Ehninger
Catalina Estrada
Lisa Evans
Joao Fazenda*
Eric Field
Jeffrey Fisher*
Vivienne Flesher
Gilbert Ford
Craig Frazier
Justin Gabbard*
Miguel Gallardo*
Tom Garrett
Beppe Giacobbe*
Bonnie Gloris
Dean Gorissen
The Ebeling Group*
Eddie Guy*
Martin Haake*
Olaf Hajek*
Kevin Hauff
David Heatley*
Andrew Hem*
John Hendrix*
Lars Henkel
Jody Hewgill*
Orlando Hoetzel*
Brad Holland*
Jeremy Holmes
Paul Hoppe
Rama Hughes
Sterling Hundley*
Riley Illustration
Donna Ingemanson
Douglas Jones*
Federico Jordan*
Aya Kakeda
Tibor Karpati
Blair Kelly*
Mike Kerr
Donald Kilpatrick*
Joe Kimberling*
Tatsuro Kiuchi*
Karen Klassen
Vitali Konstantinov
Julia Kuhl
Anita Kunz*
LAIKA
Trevor Lake
Travis Lampe*
Philippe Lardy*
Stephen Ledwidge
Jesse Lefkowitz
Renata Liwska
Liz Lomax*
Rafael Lopez
Chris Lyons*
Cat MacInnes*
Monika Maniecki
Mateo
Adam McCauley*
Mark McGinnis
Robert Meganck*
Luc Melanson*
Aaron Meshon
Patti Mollica
Matt Murphy
Alex Nabaum
Nick Nelson
Robert Neubecker*
Greg Newbold*
Christopher Nielsen*
Christian Northeast*
James O'Brien
Tim O'Brien*
Kate O'Leary
Ken Orvidas*
Valeria Petrone*
Kana Philip
Ian Phillips
Emiliano Ponzi*
Andy Potts
Natalie Pudalov
Claudia Puetz*
Chris Pyle
Vladimir Radunsky
Matthew Richardson
John Rocco
Edel Rodriguez*
Paul Rogers
Brucie Rosch
Kim Rosen
Jonathon Rosen
Matt Rota
Tin Salamunic
Erik Sandberg
Zina Saunders*
Guido Scarabottolo*
Ward Schumaker
Joanie Schwarz
Morgan Schweitzer
Rick Sealock
Lucie Sheridan*
Yuko Shimizu
Steve Simpson
Davia Smith
Ryan Snook*
Felix Sockwell*
Carlo Stanga
Brian Stauffer*
Otto Steininger*
Red Nose Studio*
Yoko Tanaka*
Sharon Tancredi
Ai Tatebayashi
Gary Taxali*
Jacob Thomas
Michelle Thompson
Anthony Tremmaglia
Jim Tsinganos
Mark Ulriksen*
Sally Vitsky
Kirk Warren
Paul Wearing
Keegan Wenkman
Sally Wern Comport
Mario Wagner
Gordon Wiebe*
Lisa Wilkens
Sara Wilkins
Nate Williams*
Martin Wittfooth*
Brad Yeo
Andrew Zbihlyj
Danijel Zezelj
Jamie Zollars
Joel Zuercher*

* multiple accepted entries

So if you're one of the winners you should be very proud, if your work didn't make it in this year's show, it's not because it isn't good, it just means it's a tough show.

Thank you to the judges and for all who entered.

The results are in and our international panel of judges have made their decisions on the largest 3x3 Student Show to date. More entries. Fewer winners. Tough judges. Tough decisions. Tough show. If you're a winner it means your work was exceptional.

Judging was tough but fair. Based on a 4.0 grading system each judge was asked to rate each entry on a scale from 0 to 4, 4 being the top score. For Merit winners, five of the eight judges had to rank the piece with a rating of 3 or better; for medal winners six or more out of the eight judges had to rate the piece either a 3 or 4. But as always the voting for medals was nearly unanimous. Medal and Merit winners will be displayed in the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 5 due out later this year. Winners will be notified to collect credits for the winning entries. Congratulations to all.

See the 2007 Student Show Winners.

To be added to our Call for Entries list please email us at shows@3x3mag.com with the subject line: Call for Entries.

3x3 Illustration Annual No. 4
Available online

Cover illustration by Jay Vollmar

3x3 Illustration Annual No. 5 Featuring our 2008 Winners
On newsstands January 2009