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meet the judges
The Judges for the Fourth Annual Pcom Creative Awards are selected for their industry experience and ability to recognize exceptional creativity. We are proud to introduce our esteemed panel of international judges in each category:
 
Fourth Annual Pcom Creative Awards
advertising judges:
Tony Chambers
London
Tony who is classed as one of the UK's pre-eminent magazine art directors, joined Wallpaper* in January 2003.

Prior to Wallpaper*, Tony had been art director at Conde Nast's flagship male lifestyle title, British GQ Magazine for six years. During that period he also acted as a creative consultant on other International Condé Nast titles and was twice named Art Director of the Year in the prestigious Periodical Publishers Association Awards.

Prior to joining Conde Nast, Tony was art editor of The Sunday Times Magazine.

Since joining Wallpaper*, Tony has overseen a highly respected re-design in 2003, which included creating a new and unique font for the magazine and attracting some of the world's most exciting and talented photographers and illustrators.

Tony has also contributed to the extension of the Wallpaper* design principles and helped to take them onto new platforms including websites, exhibitions and spin off titles, including Wallpaper* Russian and Thai Editions, and a series of sixty pocket City Guides published this Autumn, in conjunction with Phaidon press
 
graphic design judges:
Terri Stone
United States
Terri Stone is the Editor in Chief of creativepro.com, a resource for designers, photographers, and other creative professionals. She has also contributed to the books "Web Design Studio Secrets" and "The Macintosh Bible" and spoken at several conferences, including TypeCon and Macworld Expo.
 
Theresa Gaffney
United States
Theresa's lifelong pursuit of visual inspiration has propelled her on a colorful career path with ART as the focus. Making it [on her own time], making it for other people [as a studio assistant], selling it [at the Leo Castelli Gallery], writing about it [for Sothebys], and directing people who are better at it [for Vogue and The New Yorker]. So it's particularly felicitous that her current position as Creative Services Director for Conde Nast Portfolio affords her the opportunity to practice the art of business.
 
web design judges


Greg Kihlstrom
United States
Greg is an internationally-recognized Web Designer that has worked with companies and organizations of all sizes from small non profits to Fortune 500 companies. His Web design work has won Webby Awards, ADDY Awards, W3 Awards, American Design Awards, been featured on reputable Web sites such as Yahoo Picks, Cool Homepages, and many others and been featured in magazines and books by Graphis, I.D. and more. In addition, he is also a filmmaker who has written and directed several documentary, narrative and animated films that have played at festivals across the country. He is currently Creative Director at Carousel30, a Washington, DC-based design firm that specializes in Interactive Design and Motion Graphics.
 
photography judges:
Nigel Barker
England
Nigel Barker was born in London, England to a family of British, Sri Lankan, Portuguese and Irish origins. He attended Bryanston where he took his A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Physics with the plan of continuing his studies in Medicine. However Nigel's mother a former "Miss Sri Lanka" entered him into a televised model search on "The Clothes Show" where he was a finalist. This opened the door to a successful modeling career spanning a decade and took him to London, Milan, Paris and New York City.

It was during this time that his love for fashion and photography grew and in 1998 he made the leap to the other side of the lens. Nigel opened his own photo studio, StudioNB in the now fashionable Meat Packing District in Manhattan. Nigel's contributes to a wide variety of publications such as GQ, Interview, Paper, Lucky and People and his advertising clients include Beefeater Gin, Sean John, Pierre Cardin, Nicole Miller, OP, Ted Baker, Land's End and Frederick's of Hollywood.

Nigel made his debut as celebrity photographer and permanent judge on the hit show " America's Next Top Model" with super model Tyra Banks. He is known for his honest and constructive comments to the contestants and his keen eye for spotting raw talent. He has enjoyed several years of success with the show and continues to do so as it enters it's 8th season.
 
Mark M. Hancock
United States
Mark M. Hancock has been a professional photojournalist for 11 years. He is a staff photojournalist for The Beaumont Enterprise daily newspaper and previously a staff photojournalist for The Dallas Morning News (1996 - 2004).

He has won many photojournalism awards and honors from professional organizations including the Society for Newspaper Design, Best of Photojournalism, National Press Photographers Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, Texas Press Association, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Dallas Press Club, Southeast Texas Press Club and Hearst Honors.

Hancock's freelance clients include Time, Sports Illustrated, American Profile, The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News and other national publications as well as corporate clients from automobile manufacturers to national restaurateurs. His daily blog, PhotoJournalism ( http://markhancock.blogspot.com ), has received awards from Best of Photojournalism and the PhotoBloggies awards.
 
Brittany Carr
United States
Brittany Carr is the assistant photo editor for Discover Magazine. She is responsible for producing photo shoots for featured stories with prominent photographers and works closely with photo and creative directors to ensure quality for every issue.
 
Joan Sherwood
United States
For almost 100 years, Professional Photographer (http://www.ppmag.com/) has helped readers advance careers in the photographic industry. Each issue contains practical yet cutting- edge lessons in the artistic, business, and technological aspects of professional photography. No other magazine offers a more influential presentation of the people, trends, products, and photographs changing and defining the portrait, wedding and commercial photography landscape.
 
illustration judges:
Piero Tonin
Italy
Piero Tonin Organizes and teaches animation classes at the Biblioteca Comunale di Como in Italy. He has produced over 100 cartoons for the newspaper II tempo in Rome.
 
Wes Tyrell
Canada
Wes'artwork includes both humorous illustration and political cartooning and can be seen in a variety of publications including The Globe & Mail, Maclean's Magazine, Dogs in Canada Magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, online at The Huffington Post and on television on the BBC program "The Secret of Drawing".

Wes has sampled life in Israel, the UK and Cuba though now works and lives happily in Toronto with his dog Lamont.
 
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