2500+ entries from 80+ countries later we’re excited to announce the 2011 top 30 entries. All of the top 30 posters will be on display at the Thirty exhibition on November 9 at 1000 £ Bend in Melbourne, Australia. Click here to see the top 30!
The finalists are (in alphabetical order):
Katja Bak Australia
Lee Bennett United Kingdom
Ryan Bosse United States
Shaun Bryndzia Australia
Marcos Calamato United States
Dee Choi Australia
Anne Cobai Australia
Grzegorz Cofta Poland
Abhishek Desai Hong Kong
Ivan Dilberovic Croatia
David Foster Australia
Christopher Frith Australia
Karolina Kot Poland
Mats Miller Australia
Lucy-Ann Moore Australia
Michelle Panetta Australia
Klaus Pinter Austria
Ashraf Refaat Egypt
Kara Rice Australia
Touraj Saberivand Iran
Christopher Sousa Ebels Australia
Andrew Suggit Australia
Eszter Szigethy Hungary
Un Mundo Feliz Spain
Vanessa Vanselow Australia
Andrew Walker United Kingdom
Anita Wasik Poland
Andreas Wikström Sweden
I’m happy to see three Poles up in the top thirty!
This is atohner one that tells me to hurry up and try HDR, I have been resisiting for years but this is the sort of use that i personnally think makes a great photo.
Congratulations to the top 30!!
This is by far the best loinokg site I?ve seen. It was completely easy to navigate and it was easy to look for the information I needed. Fantastic layout and great content!
My wrtiing style seems to change on a daily basis, I think over time it will develop into a more constant format. At least I hope it will Clog Moneys last blog post..
so many topics, so many different approaches. powerful stuff
@Katja Bak – cheers from Poland!
Grzegorz! Biały i Czerwony!
It is an Australian exhibition…I’m laughing to your selection..they are very weak..
the other posters are very strong …
h .h, you mean i’m laughing “at” your selection not to your selection….if you look and “read” what the posters are all about you will get a better idea.
I am sorry for you…
sorry for this competition that is purely australian! most of the winners are australians. and i thought this competition judges the designs by creativity but most of the 30 selected are plain and too simple!
Hey Ibrahim, Nick from PP here. I was part of the shortlisting panel that chose the top 30. I can tell you that we had no idea where any of the posters came from at all.
Over the past 3 years we have seen a lot of Australian’s in the top 30, but this is because the competition is based here and we get some many more entries from Australia meaning there is a higher chance that they will be in the top 30! Make sense?
N
Congrats to all, great stuff all around. Bravo.
So many negative comments – that’s a shame. Really disheartening to hear in the community.
I’d say design is about getting an idea across quickly and provoking further thought – especially in this competition as the posters will be around the streets and looked at fleetingly. That’s why they have to be simple.
I don’t think the any of the 2,000+ entries are weak. They all have their own merit. It’s a shame that you are being so negative.
Furthermore I’d say so many of the top 30 are Australian because the competition is based in Australia and thus that is where it is most widely seen. It’s math.
Wow!!! while some are great, alot of these are very weak indeed!!! In both concept and execution? Did you guys actually look over all of them? Some amazingly well delivered ideas in the bunch which have been overlooked for what looks like 1st year designers vector work.
Pick up your game Judges……..
Hi Brefsone
We did indeed look over all the entries, I was part of the process and it was no easy task! Sorry to hear that you don’t agree with a lot of the selection. We feel that the 30 selected posters visually communicate their messages strongly. Design, as with every creative field, is very subjective by nature, so it’s inevitable that there will differences of opinion towards the top 30. What would your top 30 selection look like? We’d love to know!
Z
None from India again!… Why?
It would have been amazing to have some entries from India this year. Unfortunately we didn’t choose any. Hopefully next year!
It is not the destination but the journey!!
Congrats guys!!!
been busy doing some pitch lately but i have to disagree with you that you did not know the origin of your selected top 30 because you require them to submit their email ad as well as their country of origin, right? i also noticed that among the more than 2000 entries you find two (2) entries from one guy in your selected top 30 and he’s australian. why? brain says nothing selected from india but you are able to choose 2 entries from one australian guy in your top 30. now for the design itself i always advised my creatives to think out of the box in executing designs and not be among the mediocres outside. yes design needs to be simple but it has to leave an impactful message to where it was supposed to communicate but with further analysis i find only a handful in your top 30 that leaves that kind of message. designs should be more creative that it challenges your imagination as well as the viewers. some i may say are too simple and too ordinary as compared to other entries who unfortunately was not among the top 30. congrats anyway for a successful event and hopefully you can do better with judging your selected top 30.