Of the close to 1000 pieces of work submitted by almost 300 artists from all over the world, 297 were awarded Certificates of Merit, Gold Awards, Silver Awards, Bronze Awards, Honorable Mentions, the Patrick Nagel Award for Excellence and the Joseph Morgan Henninger Award for Best of Show by our esteemed panel of judges.

To see a list of accepted artists, please CLICK HERE.


David Bowers

Alex Murawski

David Bowers, Winner

This award is presented to the best of all the Gold Award Winners and is named for SILA's first President during our founding year in 1953.

Alex Murawski, Winner

This award is presented to the second best of all the Gold Award Winners and is named to honor a great illustrator, Patrick Nagel.

Judges


This judging panel included: Donna Broder, Design & Product Development, Highsmith Inc.; Tim Delaney, Vice President/ Show Producer, Disney; Paul Elliott, Head Creative Director, Product Division, Dreamworks/SKG; Garry Hovland, Illustrator; Ginnie Kingsbury, Art Buyer, Rubin Postaer & Associates; Anita Kunz, Illustrator; Leo Monahan, Illustrator/Paper Sculptor; Deborah Nouris-Lattimore, Author/Illustrator; Joe Sorren, Illustrator; Donna Tarzian, Creative Services Manager, Consumer Marketing, Los Angeles Times.

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Gold Award Winners

Bonnie Lallky-Seibert Advertising
Bonnie Lallky-Seibert
Gold Award Winner


Commissioned & published work used for consumer/trade print ads, fashion, point-of-purchase, product, packaging, outdoor, Web sites and CD-ROMs.
 
Robert Rayevsky Childrens Market
Robert Rayevsky
Gold Award Winner


Any illustration for the youth market may be entered in this category instead of one of others.
 
David Grove Book
David Grove
Gold Award Winner


Commissioned & published work for fiction/non, hard & soft cover books. Includes children's, juvenile, adult, cookbooks, comic books and graphic novels.
 
E-Culture
There were no awards given

Anything that is published and produced for electronic or digital medium. Animation for web based media, video/computer games, Web sites and CD-ROMS and interactive design e-promotion, e-greeting animations, etc.
 
Darren Booth Editorial
Darren Booth
Gold Award Winner


Commissioned & published work for newspaper, magazine, courtroom sketches including spots and humorous works.
 

Marc Burckhardt Entertainment
Marc Burckhardt
Gold Award Winner


Commissioned & published work for album/CD covers, motion picture, animation, television, video, video/computer games, dance, theater, Web sites and CD- ROMS.
 
Marc Burckhardt Institutional
Marc Burckhardt
Gold Award Winner


Commissioned & published work for annual reports, corporate projects, capability projects, in-house publications, illustrated company logos, calendars, menus, calligraphy, non self-promotional greeting cards, philatelic and collectibles.
 
Korin Faught Student
Korin Faught
Gold Award Winner


Work created for classroom projects only.
 
Rick O'Brien Unpublished / Self-Promotion
Rick O'Brien
Gold Award Winner


Any self-promotional work, whether commissioned or not commissioned. Sourcebook ads, mailers, gallery work, portfolio pieces, experimental, fine art. Includes all Artist's Rep or Gallery commissioned work.