Announcing our 2023 Student Competition Winners!
After our virtual judging, we’ve picked the top winners in our 2023 SPD-U Student Competition! We’ll be announcing them over the next week and updating the list here. Special thanks to our judges Steven Banks, Heather Jones, Tim Leong, Alice Morgan, and Robert Perino for taking the time to review all of this year’s submissions and to our Student Competition Committee Chairs David Cooper and Josue Evilla for organizing.
This competition marked the 25th year of hosting our annual SPD-U Student Competition. After multiple rounds of virtual judging and Zoom meetings, our panel of judges carefully chose their picks from all the great student work submitted. They selected first, second, and third-place winners as well as some noteworthy entries. Click their names below to see the winning work.
Special thanks to Rebellion Design Co. for sponsoring the 2023 SPD-U Scholarship for our Design winner and Heart for sponsoring the 2023 SPD-U Scholarship for our Illustration winner!
Congratulations to all of our winners and to all the wonderful entries we received!
Aspen Gengenbacher
School: Missouri School of Journalism
Level: Senior
Instructor: Tom White
Category: Fashion/Lifestyle
First Place - Illustration
Isabel Foley
School: University of Delaware
Level: Senior
Instructor: David Brinley
Category: Editorial
First Place - Photography
Natalie Schmidt
School: University of Delaware
Level: Junior
Instructor: David Brinley
Category: Portrait
Bowen Shao
School: University of Delaware
Level: Senior
Instructor: David Brinley
Category: GIFs
Second Place - Photography
Emma Stoecklein
School: Ringling College of Art + Design
Level: Junior
Instructor: Polly Johnson
Category: How-To
Third Place - Illustration
Simon Dart-Kelly
School: North Metropolitan TAFE
Level: Senior
Instructor: Brendan Hibbert
Category: Portrait
Katie Cornwell
Megan Greenacre
Danielle Pereira
School: Rider University
Level: Senior
Instructor: John Paone
Category: How-To