• Note: All winners are  kindly asked to send me your snail mail and e-mail addresses to my email available at the bottom of this page. Your prizes will be dispatched to your addresses this week.
• All submissions can be seen on our Facebook Fan Page
  

Guys,

Before I announce the winners of the competition, I want to make one thing clear: ALL OF THE WORKS WERE AWESOME!!!!

You guys gave me such a hard time with your submissions … I will never forgive you for that 😉

Had to go through all of 116 banner submissions, one by one, shortlist, then the shortlist was too big, cannot have 50 shortlisted works, then I had to go through that again …

Anyways, thank you all for submitting your work, thank you for your effort – I appreciate it very much!

I hope you had fun creating and to all of you who voted and commented on Facebook, thank you too – it helped me a lot during the selection.

So, the competition was so strong, that I just could not select only seven submissions and leave it there. Therefore, I decided to introduce one more category for those works that did not make it to the top 7 but were very very close and if I had more sponsors those would certainly be rewarded with prizes. So, there are 14 more works with HONORABLE MENTION!

One more thing, some of the winners who submitted more than one work probably deserved more than one prize with your works, but, I had only 7 prizes to give away and hope you will agree with me, I had to give only one prize per author.

OK. Enough talking now.

Ladies and gentleman, it is a special privilege for me tonight and a great honor, to introduce you to

The Winners of the first Graphics-Illustrations Graphic Design Competition – GI 2009

We will start from the 7th place and move on to the 1st place:

7th Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Jill

Prize: NATURE’S SONG, BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)

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6th Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Iyan Ardian

Prize: PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)

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5th Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Jessica Weible

Prize: SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)

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4th Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm

Prize: SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)

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3rd Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Vivayne – vivayne.com

Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Mug + Surprise gift from Graphics-Illustrations.Com

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2nd Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Sama Taqi

Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Grocery Tote Bag + One PREMIUM Background Pack (any)

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1st Place

Header submission:

Name of the author: Norma Kennedy

Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com T-Shirt + One PREMIUM Photoshop Brushes set (any – up to $9.00)

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Honorable mention:

Header submission:

Name of the author: Sama Taqi

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Jennifer

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Ashley Murray

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Lynn

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Shane Shoemaker

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Jami Mullett Bova

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Tangie Pounds Evans

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Rachel L.

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Chantelle Venter

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Chantelle Venter

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Header submission:

Name of the author: Chantelle Venter

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All winners are  kindly asked to send me your snail mail and e-mail addresses to my email available at the bottom of this page. Your prizes will be dispatched to your addresses this week. Also, if you have a web site, send your web address too. I am sure that our visitors would love to see more of your work.

Thank you all, once again, it was a great pleasure to organize this competition! I hope I will be able to organize one more competition soon and would like to use this opportunity to invite potential sponsors to help me out with the prizes. Once again, BIG THANKS goes to our sponsor Katie Cotton (Katie Cotton blog). Katie creates paper makup stamps and here is the link to her Paper Makup Stamps Blog ->

What can I say? It was fun! It was a great experience! There was  a total of 116 submissions which were seen by thousands of graphic design enthusiasts, professionals and amateurs alike and I think it is a great success for all of us!

Love you all and never forget: Have fun creating!

Silvia