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Welcome to the IIlustration West 41 Competition Of the over 1000 pieces of work submitted by close to 400 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.



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.	David Bowers, 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: Rob Clayton, Illustrator, Fine Artist www.claytonbrothers.com; Dana Collins, Art Director, LA Weekly; Candace Mammarella, Illustrator, Fine Artist; Richard Manville, Art Director, Mattel; Mark A. Murphy, Murphy Design www.murphydesign.com; Joel Nakamura, Illustrator, Fine Artist www.joelnakamura.com; Maria Rendon, Illustrator www.mariarendon.com; Greg Ross , Orabor www.orabor.com; Billy Shire, La Luz de Jesus Gallery www.laluzdejesus.com; Greg Spalenka , Illustrator www.spalenka.com; JT Steiny , Illustrator, Fine Artist www.jtsteiny.com

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

If you have any questions, please contact the office at SILA1@aol.com.

Advertising
Rick Sealock, 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
William Stout, Gold Award Winner
Any commissioned & published black & white illustration may be entered in this category instead of one of others.

Book
Alan Male, 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
Jon Conrad, Gold Award Winner
(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
Anita Kunz, Gold Award Winner
Commissioned & published work for newspaper, magazine, courtroom sketches including spots and humorous works.

Entertainment
Chris Pyle, 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.

Institution
Nathan T. Ota, 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.

Student/ Tied
David Hyu Lim, Gold & Silver Award Winner
Work created for

classroom projects only.

Student/ Tied
Liane Shih, Gold & Silver Award Winner
Work created for classroom projects only.

Unpublished / Self-Promote
Anita Kunz, 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.