3x3 Picture Books Show Winners Announced

After two weeks of judging our distinguished panel of art directors, creative directors, editors and illustrators have made their selections. To get into the show an entry must receive a majority of judge’s votes, medalists are determined using an algorithm based on the judge’s preferences. Honorable mentions must have at least three judge’s votes.

We’re excited to say that our medalists and merit winners represent sixteen countries this year.

Gold medals go to Sally Han, Australia; Ofra Amit, Israel; João Concha, Portugal and Owen Davey, United Kingdom.

Our Silver medal winners include Pei-Yu Chang, Germany; Yael Albert, Israel, Paolo d'Altan, Italy and Shu-Man Wang, Taiwan.

Bronze medalists are Angela Keoghan, New Zealand; Gerry Turley, United Kingdom and James Yang, United States.

Distinguished Merits were awarded to Catalina Silva Guzmán, Chile; Valeria Petrone with two awards, Italy and Chi He, United Kingdom.

To see a complete list of winners go to our website.

Congratulations to our winners and we wish to thank our judges for their time completing the judging process.

This year’s ProShow judges include Melissa Manlove, Senior Editor, Chronicle Books, United States; Sophie Stericker, Creative Director, Hachette Children’s Books, United Kingdom; Louise Bolongaro, Head of Picture, Nosy Crow, United Kingdom and illustrators Orit Bergman, Israel and Andrea D’Aquino, United States.

Clockwise from top left: Ofra Amit, João Concha, Sally Han and Owen Davey

3x3 ProShow Winners Announced

After two rounds of judging our distinguished panel of art directors, creative directors, graphic designers and illustrators have made their selections. To get into the show an entry must receive a majority of judge's votes, medalists are determined using an algorithm based on the judge's preferences. Honorable mentions must have at least three judge's votes.

It is always interesting to see what our judges favor, and it seems they were looking for something new this year with a lot of new faces being represented. All judging was done digitally, the judges only saw a entry number with the image and were not aware of who the artist was.

And as always our show differs from most other shows in that our winners represent a number of countries outside the United States. Our medalists and merits represent thirty-six countries.

Our top winners represent twelve countries with our Best of Show going to IC4Design in Japan; Gold medals went to Katarzyna Bogdanska, Poland; Rod Hunt, United Kingdom; Elisa Talentino, Italy and Manuja Waldia, United States.

Silver medal winners include Patrick Doyon, Canada; James Gilleard, United Kingdom; Jianrong Lin, United States; Enzo Lo Re, Italy and Ileana Soon, United States.

Bronze medals went to Melinda Beck, United States; Siyu Cao, China; Menelaos Kouroudis, Greece; Ryan Garcia, Canada; Emiliano Ponzi, Italy and Jhao-Yu Shih, Taiwan.

Our Distinguished Merits included illustrators from United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, Ireland, Israel and the United States.

It was wonderful to see so many more entries in the Animation category this year and it appears our judges loved what they saw.

To see a complete list of winners go to our website.

Congratulations to our winners and we wish to thank our judges for their time completing the judging process.

This year's ProShow judges include Sam Arthur, Nobrow, United Kingdom; Julia Rothman, Illustrator, United States; Creative Director Jonathan Kenyon, United States; Dieter Braun, Illustrator, Germany; Art Director Orlie Kraus, United States; Graphic Designer Daniela Silva, United Kingdom and Creative Director Ivylise Simones, United States. Thanks also to Rod Hunt who was a great help as our show chair.