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The Hiii Illustration International Competition, opens to all illustrators, creative professionals and agencies, teachers and students worldwide, aiming to discover and reward outstanding illustration talents and works from all over the world, in an effort to advance the global development of illustration.Since 2010, the Hiii Illustration has been held for 10 consecutive years, has invited more than 60 international judges from 5 continents and received more than 21,000 entries from more than 100 countries or regions, and has now become one of the biggest and most influential illustration competitions honored with the finest quality of works in the Asia-Pacific region and even the whole world.
1. Eligibility
A. Eligibility Criteria
a. Any illustration works, first created or published from March 2020 through March 2023 are eligible.
b. Entries may be from any country in the world.
c. Entrants can be illustrators/groups, creative agencies, publishers, teachers or students.
d. There are 10 entries each illustrator can submit.
e. The organizing committee does not accept any AI (artificial intelligence technology) created or modified works.
B. Requirements
a. The single entry can be with just one illustration.
b. The series entry can include no more than ten different illustrations. If the number of illustrations is over ten, the committee only chooses the ten of them for judging.
c. Each entry for Children's Book category should be 6 illustrations and 1 cover.
2. Categories
A. Commercial
Illustration works that were commissioned by clients, have been put into production or application.
Examples: advertising, design, product, packaging, place or space, animation, fashion, textiles, gaming, apps, social media, television and web, billboards, cd covers, posters, labels, etc
B. Publishing
Illustration works that were commissioned by clients, have been published or issued.
Examples: books, editorial, covers, magazines, newspapers, comics, handmade books, zines, other publication (including digital formatting), etc.
C. Children's Book
Children’s book illustrations for children under 16
C-1 Published
C-2 Unpublished
D. Uncommissioned
Uncommissioned illustration works, or commnissioned ones, but haven’t yet been put into production, application or publication.
Jury: Steven Heller, Brett Ryder, Charles Hively, Martin Salisbury, Romy Blümel, Whitney Sherman
Jury
Steven HELLER
Steven Heller is the co-chair and co-founder of the MFA Design: Designer As Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.
He was an art director of the New York Times for 33 years, Art Director of the Times Book Review for almost 30 of those years and “Visuals” columnist for the Book Review and “Graphic Content” column for the Times’ T-Style. He has been a longtime contributor to Print magazine and for the past ten years writes the “Daily Heller” for Printmag.com. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 200 books on the history and practice of graphic design, illustration, satiric art and writes frequently about popular visual culture.
He was awarded the AIGA Medal, elected to the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, the 2011 Recipient of the Smithsonion National Design Award for “Design Mind” and has two honorary Ph.Ds in Fine Arts by The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic, among other honors. His most recent book with design legend Seymour Chwast, HELL: THE PEOPLE, THE PLACES was just published by Corriani Editions. And his book “Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counter Culture New York” was published in Fall 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press.
Steven Heller is the co-chair and co-founder of the MFA Design: Designer As Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.
He was an art director of the New York Times for 33 years, Art Director of the Times Book Review for almost 30 of those years and “Visuals” columnist for the Book Review and “Graphic Content” column for the Times’ T-Style. He has been a longtime contributor to Print magazine and for the past ten years writes the “Daily Heller” for Printmag.com. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 200 books on the history and practice of graphic design, illustration, satiric art and writes frequently about popular visual culture.
He was awarded the AIGA Medal, elected to the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, the 2011 Recipient of the Smithsonion National Design Award for “Design Mind” and has two honorary Ph.Ds in Fine Arts by The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic, among other honors. His most recent book with design legend Seymour Chwast, HELL: THE PEOPLE, THE PLACES was just published by Corriani Editions. And his book “Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counter Culture New York” was published in Fall 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press.
Brett RYDER
Brett was born in Norfolk, England. He studied at Camberwell College of Arts and St Martin's.
Brett's mixture of collage, drawing, photography and Photoshop makes it difficult to tell where one medium ends and another begins. The work is intriguing and it's difficult to extrapolate reference points which is unusual in a style that is so consistent. If the alchemy of how his artworks are created remains a slight mystery, so does their conception. Everything starts with a pencil sketch but where the ideas come from is just a very active place in Brett's furtive mind.
Select Client List: Affordable Art Fair, Aardman, Barclays, BBH, BDO Stoy Hayward, Beck Greener, Brummell Magazine, Coca-Cola, Drexel, Dr Stuart's Teas, The Economist, Fortnum & Mason, Glastonbury Festival, Harper Collins, Health Affairs, Itau BBA Bank of Brazil, Johnnie Walker, Johns Hopkins Health Review, The Lancet, The London Symphony Orchestra, Morningstar, Myself Magazine, Natwest, Nestea, The New York Times, Nongfu, Oprah Magazine, Penguin Books, Profile Books, Red Bull, Royal Mail, Sustainable Forestry Management, The Telegraph, The Times, The Washington Post, Weltwoche.
Brett was born in Norfolk, England. He studied at Camberwell College of Arts and St Martin's.
Brett's mixture of collage, drawing, photography and Photoshop makes it difficult to tell where one medium ends and another begins. The work is intriguing and it's difficult to extrapolate reference points which is unusual in a style that is so consistent. If the alchemy of how his artworks are created remains a slight mystery, so does their conception. Everything starts with a pencil sketch but where the ideas come from is just a very active place in Brett's furtive mind.
Select Client List: Affordable Art Fair, Aardman, Barclays, BBH, BDO Stoy Hayward, Beck Greener, Brummell Magazine, Coca-Cola, Drexel, Dr Stuart's Teas, The Economist, Fortnum & Mason, Glastonbury Festival, Harper Collins, Health Affairs, Itau BBA Bank of Brazil, Johnnie Walker, Johns Hopkins Health Review, The Lancet, The London Symphony Orchestra, Morningstar, Myself Magazine, Natwest, Nestea, The New York Times, Nongfu, Oprah Magazine, Penguin Books, Profile Books, Red Bull, Royal Mail, Sustainable Forestry Management, The Telegraph, The Times, The Washington Post, Weltwoche.
Charles HIVELY
Charles Hively is an award-winning creative director, art director, ad agency founder, graphic designer, sometime copywriter and former illustrator. In addition to founding 3x3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, he serves as design director as well as handling those duties on its sister publication Creative Quarterly. In addition to overseeing the 3x3 illustration annual and directory in 2020 he brought back 3x3 Magazine after a decade long absence.
Hively is also an author and active lecturer on college campuses in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland and Austria and industry events including founding the New York Nuts & Bolts Conference for young illustrators. He has received honors from Print, HOW International Design Annual, Applied Arts, Communication Arts, AIGA, Society of Publication Designers and the Society of Illustrators.
Charles Hively is an award-winning creative director, art director, ad agency founder, graphic designer, sometime copywriter and former illustrator. In addition to founding 3x3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, he serves as design director as well as handling those duties on its sister publication Creative Quarterly. In addition to overseeing the 3x3 illustration annual and directory in 2020 he brought back 3x3 Magazine after a decade long absence.
Hively is also an author and active lecturer on college campuses in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland and Austria and industry events including founding the New York Nuts & Bolts Conference for young illustrators. He has received honors from Print, HOW International Design Annual, Applied Arts, Communication Arts, AIGA, Society of Publication Designers and the Society of Illustrators.
Martin SALISBURY
Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and is Director of the Centre for Children’s Book Studies. In 2000 he designed the world renowned MA Children’s Book Illustration programme there.
After studying illustration at Maidstone College of Art in the 1970s, Salisbury worked as a freelance illustrator and exhibiting painter for many years alongside part-time teaching. His books on the practice and theory of illustration are published in numerous languages around the world. He has acted as Chair of the Bologna Ragazzi awards jury at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and jury member for the Frankfurt/ Beijing Global Illustration Awards.
Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and is Director of the Centre for Children’s Book Studies. In 2000 he designed the world renowned MA Children’s Book Illustration programme there.
After studying illustration at Maidstone College of Art in the 1970s, Salisbury worked as a freelance illustrator and exhibiting painter for many years alongside part-time teaching. His books on the practice and theory of illustration are published in numerous languages around the world. He has acted as Chair of the Bologna Ragazzi awards jury at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and jury member for the Frankfurt/ Beijing Global Illustration Awards.
Romy BLÜMEL
Romy Blümel is an Illustrator from Berlin, Germany, working in the field since over ten years.
Her work has been employed by a broad list of clients for newspapers, magazines, books, advertising and cultural events. Romy´s original paintings travelled to group shows in Shanghai, Seoul, Budapest, Paris, London and Antwerp. She is a member of the female artist collective ´Spring´ founded in 2004 in Hamburg. Together they publish a new monothematic issue once a year of the same-named ´Spring Magazine´ an anthology of comics, illustration and free drawing, realised using a wide variety of visual narrative techniques.
Select Client List: The Folio Society, Penguin Books, Random House, Harper´s Magazine, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian, World of Interiors, The Lancet, Ultra Travel, L.A.Magazine, Financial Times, Yale University Press, Goethe Institut, Weleda, Sotheby’s, Fortnum & Mason`s and The Newt amongst others.
Romy Blümel is an Illustrator from Berlin, Germany, working in the field since over ten years.
Her work has been employed by a broad list of clients for newspapers, magazines, books, advertising and cultural events. Romy´s original paintings travelled to group shows in Shanghai, Seoul, Budapest, Paris, London and Antwerp. She is a member of the female artist collective ´Spring´ founded in 2004 in Hamburg. Together they publish a new monothematic issue once a year of the same-named ´Spring Magazine´ an anthology of comics, illustration and free drawing, realised using a wide variety of visual narrative techniques.
Select Client List: The Folio Society, Penguin Books, Random House, Harper´s Magazine, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian, World of Interiors, The Lancet, Ultra Travel, L.A.Magazine, Financial Times, Yale University Press, Goethe Institut, Weleda, Sotheby’s, Fortnum & Mason`s and The Newt amongst others.
Whitney SHERMAN
Whitney Sherman is a multi-faceted artist. As an award- winning illustrator, Sherman uses drawing, collage, linocut, and design mixing analog and digital worlds. Her editorial illustrations focus on issues of health and human emotion. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators/NY, American Illustration, Communication Arts and Print Regional magazine, to name a few, and is included in the Library of Congress collection of original illustrations and prints. She created the central image for the Breast Cancer Research stamp, the first US semi-postal stamp which has raised over $90 million dollars for research. Sherman has exhibited in Japan, England, Germany and the US at Gallery Nucleus, Giant Robot, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Library of Congress exhibition and book Drawn to Purpose, American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists. And she has given lectures at the University of Kansas Hallmark Residency, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Beihang University/Beijing, and at Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Rubén Herrera/ Mexico, and has conducted workshops in Mexico, China and the US based on her book Playing with Sketches.
In addition to authoring Playing with Sketches, Sherman was a chapter writer and associate editor of the History of Illustration textbook. Her limited edition housewares for Pbody Dsign include ceramic pieces and accompanying items in cloth and paper. This work represents her view of illustrators’ expanding roles.
At MICA, she is the MFA Illustration Practice Founding Director and thesis faculty where she promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to illustration. She is also Co- Director of Dolphin Press & Print @ MICA where advanced printmaking students are guided in producing editions of artist books and prints by nationally recognized artists. Sherman has taught both illustration and graphic design. In 2020 she was selected as the Distinguished Educator in the Arts by the Society of Illustrators/NY.
Whitney Sherman is a multi-faceted artist. As an award- winning illustrator, Sherman uses drawing, collage, linocut, and design mixing analog and digital worlds. Her editorial illustrations focus on issues of health and human emotion. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators/NY, American Illustration, Communication Arts and Print Regional magazine, to name a few, and is included in the Library of Congress collection of original illustrations and prints. She created the central image for the Breast Cancer Research stamp, the first US semi-postal stamp which has raised over $90 million dollars for research. Sherman has exhibited in Japan, England, Germany and the US at Gallery Nucleus, Giant Robot, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Library of Congress exhibition and book Drawn to Purpose, American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists. And she has given lectures at the University of Kansas Hallmark Residency, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Beihang University/Beijing, and at Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Rubén Herrera/ Mexico, and has conducted workshops in Mexico, China and the US based on her book Playing with Sketches.
In addition to authoring Playing with Sketches, Sherman was a chapter writer and associate editor of the History of Illustration textbook. Her limited edition housewares for Pbody Dsign include ceramic pieces and accompanying items in cloth and paper. This work represents her view of illustrators’ expanding roles.
At MICA, she is the MFA Illustration Practice Founding Director and thesis faculty where she promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to illustration. She is also Co- Director of Dolphin Press & Print @ MICA where advanced printmaking students are guided in producing editions of artist books and prints by nationally recognized artists. Sherman has taught both illustration and graphic design. In 2020 she was selected as the Distinguished Educator in the Arts by the Society of Illustrators/NY.
Rewards
A. Award certificates
Electronic certificates are available free of charge.
Paper certificates only upon request and payment.
B. Hiii Illustration winner label
Use of the Hiii Illustration label for the whole lifecycle of your award-winning work.
C. Online exhibition
Presentation of the award-winning product on the Hiiibrand website with images and text as well as a video clip.
D. Winners exhibitions
There will be series exhibitions of Hiii Illustrationin different cities. See past exhibitions here:
http://www.hiiibrand.com/article.php?act=list&cat_id=20
E. Further services
The Winner Package also includes the Hiii Illustration Trophy, the Hiii Illustration books, the
creation of a clip for the Hiii Illustration winners and the media support.
※ Total costs: from 150 USD
Electronic certificates are available free of charge.
Paper certificates only upon request and payment.
B. Hiii Illustration winner label
Use of the Hiii Illustration label for the whole lifecycle of your award-winning work.
C. Online exhibition
Presentation of the award-winning product on the Hiiibrand website with images and text as well as a video clip.
D. Winners exhibitions
There will be series exhibitions of Hiii Illustrationin different cities. See past exhibitions here:
http://www.hiiibrand.com/article.php?act=list&cat_id=20
E. Further services
The Winner Package also includes the Hiii Illustration Trophy, the Hiii Illustration books, the
creation of a clip for the Hiii Illustration winners and the media support.
※ Total costs: from 150 USD
Timeline
Asia/Shanghai
Submission starts
Submission ends
Jury starts
The Finalists: August 2023 The Winner's lists: September 2023
Jury ends
The Finalists: August 2023 The Winner's lists: September 2023
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