Welcome to the IIlustration West 40 Competition Of the close to 1000 pieces of work submitted by over 300 artists from all over the world, 255 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.

Arena Stage Greg Spalenka

Jody Hewgill, 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.

Greg Spalenka, 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.

This panel included: Cheryl Besser, Besser Design Group, Skip Bolen, Art Director, House of Blues Ent., www.skipbolenstudio.com, Christian Clayton, Illustrator/Fine Artist www.claytonbrothers.com, Rob Clayton, Illustrator/Fine Artist www.claytonbrothers.com, Linda Cobb, Creative Director, Bumper Crop, Nancy Duckworth, Art Director, Design Bureau, Jeff Fey, Senior Director, Capitol Records, Jeri Heide, Art Director, Smog Design www.smogdesign.com, Jason Holley, Illustrator, Scott Mires, Mires Design www.miresdesign.com
Reuben Munoz, Art Director, LA Times, Maria Rendon, Illustrator and Jeffrey Smith, Illustrator

We hope you enjoy our fifth On-line Annual. For an alphabetical index by last name of the illustrator, please click here.

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Hoo Doo ProductionsAdvertising
Rafael Lopez, Gold Award Winner
Commissioned & published work used for consumer/trade print ads, fashion, point-of-purchase, product, packaging, outdoor, Web sites and CD-ROMs.
 
Black & White
No gold award has been given this year.
Any commissioned & published black & white illustration may be entered in this category instead of one of others.
 
ibooks (for the book The New Dinosaurs)Book
William Stout, 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
No gold award has been given this year.
(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.
 
Editorial
John S. Dykes, Gold Award Winner
Commissioned & published work for newspaper, magazine, courtroom sketches including spots and humorous works.
 
Entertainment
Jody Hewgill, Silver Award Winner
Commissioned & published work for album/CD covers, motion picture, animation, television, video, video/computer games, dance, theater, Web sites and CD- ROMS.
 
Murphy DesignInstitution
Jody Hewgill, Silver 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.
 
Art Center College of Design Student / Scholarship
Robert Hammond, Gold Award Winner
Work created for classroom projects only.
 
Self-PromotionUnpublished / Self-Promote
S. Corey Sandelius, 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.
 
Judges / Board of Directors
Come meet our ILW 40 panel of judges and the Board of Directors.
 
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