- 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)
6th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Iyan Ardian
Prize: PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
5th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jessica Weible
Prize: SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
4th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Prize: SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
3rd Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Vivayne – vivayne.com
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Mug + Surprise gift from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
2nd Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Sama Taqi
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Grocery Tote Bag + One PREMIUM Background Pack (any)
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)
Honorable mention:
Header submission:
Name of the author: Sama Taqi
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jennifer
Header submission:
Name of the author: Ashley Murray
Header submission:
Name of the author: Lynn
Header submission:
Name of the author: Shane Shoemaker
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jami Mullett Bova
Header submission:
Name of the author: Tangie Pounds Evans
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rachel L.
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
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
Congrats to all the winners!!!
eeeeekkkkkk I am so super excited and honored….Thank You so much!!!!
I created the Bella Vida banner and knew u were going to have a tough time with all the fabulous submissions. Ever one did such a GREAT job !!!!!!!
You can visit me at http://www.redrediris.blogspot.com
I will email you in the next couple of days once I have had a chance to decide on just 1 of your fabulous brush sets (I want them all!!!!) ;’ )
Once again Thank You !
Warmly, Norma
Thanks Silvia! What fun! Can’t wait to do it again!
Cheers,
Kasia
Congrats to the winner! 🙂
And honourable mentions.
Good competition. Got us motivated Sylvia.
Gordeeeeeeeeee
Thankyou so much I ma so glad that I won 😀 For a beginner like me its a great honour to be a part of Graphic illustration 😀 Thanks alot Silvia
I am waiting for the next one 😉
WOW, how were you ever able to pick. They are all awesome. I so need to try my hand at creating a banner.
Silvia, thanks so much for all your freebies & tutorials. My time has been so limited that I look but don’t always comment. Thankfully RSS feed is the best so I can atleast stay up to date. Anyway, thank you – you rock. ANd I hope you don’t mind, but I left you a blog award on my blog. You deserve so much more 🙂
big hugs
Thank you Micki for the blog award and for the kind words!
Thanks for adding mine and also for adding me on the Honorable Mention!! Can’t wait to do it again! Love you! – Jennifer
Silvia,
Thank you so much for puting on this competition – I don’t know how you picked with ALL of those fabulous designs. I’m honored to have been chosen for 3rd place~YAHOOOOOOiiiieeee!! You made my day, no, my week! Now I can sip tea and coffee with my graphics illustrations mug while I’m sitting at my computer making digital scrapbooking designs!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! I love it… And great job to everyone who submitted, just loved your designs… ps. great pick for first place too.
Woo Hoo…an honorable mention! Thanks!! This was lots of fun, and I always enjoy using your brushes!
Congratulations to all the winners – and also the runners up. Fabulous artwork!
It was so much Fun to be in this competition,Thank You so much for the Honorable mention.I am looking forward to the next one..
Thanks Silvia ..”