Meet Our Judges: Syndi Becker, Design Director

Syndi Becker, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, has built her career around magazines. Starting at New York magazine back in 1989 where she stayed for seven years—that's 350 issues including special issues, features and departments as well as supervising junior designers for other sections of the magazine.

From there she moved to American Health magazine as art director helping rebrand the general health magazine into a women specific publication. Followed by a stint at Smart Money landing at Money magazine next for another seven years, which included a total redesign of the magazine, before moving to Alix Partners as consulting design director developing branded content for their website. And then fourteen years with Time Inc Content Solutions overseeing the design for digital and interactive projects as well as custom published magazines, e-newsletters and related collateral. Her background in commissioning illustration and photography is extensive.

Currently she is Executive Design Director at Foundry 360.

Syndi has won numerous awards from Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, American Photography, Print, Type Directors Club among many others.

We are pleased to have Syndi on our jury along with fellow art directors Benjamin Bours, Nathan Huang, Katja Kollmann and Victoria Bee. Illustrators Rafael Alvarez, Tatsuro Kiuchi, Emile Holmewood, Cecilia Ruiz, Natalie Pudalov, Thomas Danthony and Takahisa Hashimoto round out our distinguished panel of judges.

Our show is open to all illustrators, art directors, publishers, educators, students in all countries for commissioned, no-commissioned and personal work produced or published prior to our show deadline.

3x3 International Illustration Annual No. 17
Deadline: March 27, 2020 (midnight EST)
Late Deadline: April 3, 2020 (late fees apply)

Open for entries