3x3 Picture Book Show Winners Announced

We’re pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Picture Book Show. Once again we had entries from all over the globe with four out of seven medalists from outside the United States.

¶ Just to get in the show entrants must receive a majority of votes from our five judges, we originally had six judges but out Australian judge was on a sabbatical and couldn't be reached by email for our judging. 

¶ To receive a medal an entry must receive at five judge’s votes. Medals are determined by the number of judges who select a particular piece as their favorite, the more judges who select a particular piece the higher the medal i.e. Best of Show, Gold, Silver and Bronze. Judges were not permitted to vote for their own work. 

¶ Winners will appear in our first 3x3 hardcover annual coming out later this year. A softcover version of the annual will appear on newsstands worldwide, another example on how 3x3 continues to promote the art of illustration.

Medalists

Best of Show -  Doron Sohari, Israel

Gold - Marion Arbona, Canada

Silver -  Doug Salati 

Bronze - 

Maria Carluccio

Nina Cuneo, Italy

T. Lively Fluharty 

Klaas Verplancke, Belgium

Judges

Ann Bobco, Executive Art Director, Atheneum Books for Young Readers a part of Simon & Schuster

Rachael Cole, Art Director, Schwartz &Wade

Belén Freijeiro, Publisher, OQO Books, Spain

Judith Drews, Illustrator, Germany

Julien Chung, Illustrator, Canada

Thank you to our judges. Congratulations to all our winners:

Best of Show 

Doron Sohari, Children’s Book Unpublished

Gold 

Marion Arbona, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Silver 

Doug Salati, Children’s Book Unpublished

Bronze 

Maria Carluccio, Children’s Book Unpublished

Nina Cuneo, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

T. Lively Fluharty, Children’s Book Published

Klaas Verplancke, Children’s Book Published

Distinguished Merit 

Marion Arbona, Children’s Illustration Published

Aljoscha Blau, Children’s Book Published

Valeria Petrone, Editorial

Jack Wang and Holman Wang, Children’s Book Published

Merit 

Rafael Alvarez, Children’s Illustration Published

Marion Arbona, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Valeria Docampo, Children’s Book Published

Audrey Niffenegger, Young Adult

Kristina Brasseler, Children’s Book Published

Julien Castanié, Children’s Book Unpublished

Hudson Christie, Children’s Book Unpublished

Jamey Christoph, Children’s Book Published

Christopher Corr, Children’s Book Published

Teresa Cortez, Children’s Book Published

Owen Davey, Children’s Book Published

Byron Eggenschwiler, Educational

Louise French, Children’s Book Unpublished

Susan Gal, Children’s Illustration Unpublished*

Sara Ogilvie, Children’s Illustration Published

Aya Gordon-Noy, Children’s Book Published

Aad Goudappel, Children’s Book Unpublished

Stephanie Graegin, Children’s Book Published

Lianne Harrison, Book Covers 

Tom Jellett, Book Covers 

Tom Jellett, Children’s Book Published

Angela Keoghan, Editorial

Alistar Khabuliani, Young Adult

Vitali Konstantinov, Children’s Book Published

Dahye Lee, Children’s Book Unpublished

Steven Lenton, Children’s Book Published

So Yeon Lim, Editorial

Simone Massoni, Children’s Book Published

Scott Nash, Young Adult

Robert Neubecker, Children’s Book Published

Robert Neubecker, Book Covers 

Andrea Offermann, Book Covers 

Hsinping Pan, Book Covers 

Valeria Petrone, Children’s Illustration Published

Valeria Petrone, Miscellaneous

Valeria Petrone, Children’s Book Published

Valeria Petrone, Editorial

David Pintor, Miscellaneous

Marco Piunti, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Natalie Pudalov, Children’s Book Published

Anna Raff, Children’s Book Published

Kelly Murphy, Children’s Book Published

Zack Rock, Children’s Book Unpublished

Maria Isabel Roxas, Miscellaneous

Doug Salati, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Maral Sassouni, Children’s Book Unpublished

Eunhye Seo, Children’s Illustration Unpublished

Natalie Waksman Shenker, Children’s Book Published

Studio Tipi, Editorial

Yoko Tanaka, Children’s Illustration Published

Francois Thisdale, Children’s Book Unpublished

Niv Tishbi, Children’s Book Unpublished

Emma Vakarélova, Book Covers 

Alicia Varela, Children’s Book Published

João Vaz de Carvalho, Children's Book Published*

Estrella Vega, Educational

Constanze Von Kitzing, Children’s Illustration Published

Katrin Wiehle, Children’s Book Published

Mike Wimmer, Children’s Book Published

Stephanie Wunderlich, Children’s Illustration Published

Chia-Chi Yu, Young Adult

Pamela Zagarenski, Children’s Book Published

Debra Ziss, Children’s Book Unpublished

* denotes multiple pieces in category

Cover Illustration for digital 3x3 Picture Book Annual, Simone Massoni

Chris Van Allsburg to be Honored by the 2013 Carle Honors

In the Artist category, The Carle will recognize Chris Van Allsburg, the groundbreaking artist and author and winner of two Caldecott Medals for Jumanji and The Polar Express.

Other honorees include Phyllis Fogelman Baker, influential editor and publisher; Lynda Johnson Robb and Carol Rasco, Reading is Fundamental and Barbara Bader, author of American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to The Beast Within.

The Carle Honors is a critical fundraiser for the The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, helping to support the Museum’s mission of inspiring of love of art and reading through picture books.

For ticket and sponsorship information, including the ability to sponsor an educator to attend the gala, please contact Rebecca Miller Goggins, Director of Development at rebeccag@carlemuseum.org or 413-658-1118.

The 2013 Carle Honors
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Guastavino’s,  New York City

Laura Tolar Joins Us

We’re pleased to announce a new addition to our virtual studio, Laura Tolar. Laura heads up her own design firm and will be helping us out with future publications of 3x3. In fact she completed the pre-press work on Issue 22 which went to press last week.

“Laura and I go back a long way, she was my right-hand person at my agency down in Houston for a number of years and we’ve kept in contact since my move to New York. She is a super-detailed individual with a great deal of experience and we’re happy she can help us out as we move forward.”

Thanks to today’s technology we’re able to work in two different cities on the same project.

Welcome aboard Laura!

The Final Issue

As we start our eleventh year we are sending the final issue of 3x3 Magazine to press. Eleven years ago today the idea of 3x3 was born in a bedroom in Queens. In the past ten years we’ve produced twenty-two issues featuring sixty-six illustrators as well as 356 illustrators from around the globe in our gallery, showcase and spotlight sections. We’ve profiled leading art directors who favor illustration. We’ve hearlded many of the icons of illustration. We’ve tried to feature only the best of the best. But after ten years, we must pause and ask one question. Are there better ways to fulfill our mission? I feel the time has come to step back, suspend publication of our magazine and explore new directions.

Perhaps too at this stage in my life I hear the ticking clock grow louder There are projects lying dormant on my desk. Books I want to write, monographs to edit and design, podcasts to produce, apps to develop and design projects in the idea-stage that deserve to see fruition.

Without a doubt we will continue to be an active voice in promoting the very best of illustration. Our juried Annual will remain visible on newsstands across the globe. Our site will continue to offer both back issues, blogs, books and annuals and soon new offerings.

We invite you to continue the journey with us. And see where the next ten years takes us. Change is good.

In this final issue we will be featuring Aad Goudappel, Harry Campbell and Beppe Giacobbe as our main featured artists and our Spotlight section will be featuring the conceptual artists Paul Garland, Jon Krause, Jon Reinfurt, Anthony Tremmaglia, Jim Tsinganos and James Yang. Our profile is illustrator, designer and art director Matt Dorfman from The New York Times Op-Ed and our Icon is David Suter who was a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed pages. And our final CareerTalk speaks to the issue of artist's rights. And as a special feature we’ll reproduce the gold medal winners of the 2013 ProShow.

In closing, I’d like to thank all of you who have supported 3x3 Magazine throughout the years and I hope you will continue to support our efforts going forward.

To make sure you get a copy of our final print issue, order today. To order go here. Some back issues are still available as print editions, all issues are available as pdfs and soon apps.

Cover illustration by Aad Goudappel