3x3 magazine

is entering its eleventh year judging the world's best contemporary illustration. Their mission is to spotlight the best contemporary international artists they can find and encourage a new focus on the use of illustration by the global editorial, advertising and design communities.

They hold juried competitions once a year to highlight the best and brightest talents of each year.
This year the competitions are:

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ProShow

- categories include Advertising, Animation, Annual Reports, Books, Calendars, Corporate Communication, Covers, Cartoons & Comics, Editorial-separate categories for conceptual, food and beverage, portraits, sports, travel and lifestyle- Fashion, Gallery, Greeting Cards, Graphic Novels, Packaging, Posters, Stamps, Sci-Fi, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Textiles & Patterns, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished.

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Picture Book Show

- categories include Children’s Book, published and a separate category for unpublished; Young Adult, Book Covers, Children’s Illustration, published and a separate category for unpublished; Educational, Editorial, Children’s Programming and a Miscellaneous category that includes packaging and products for young children.

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Student Show

- while most shows have an open category for student shows, the Student Show's categories this year include illustration, animation, sci-fi, and books.

Moreover, this year there's a new honorable mention category, while winners will need a majority of votes to get into the show, honorable mentions will need receive one-half the judge’s votes.

The goal is to bring together artists from all countries to share their creative output in an impartial judging scenario. All judging is done digitally by a set of unbiased judges; if a particular judge has either commissioned the work or has been the illustrator they are not allowed to vote on their entry.