2009 Winners

Theme: I
Submissions: 2.115 posters / 1.468 participants from 67 countries.

The awards (prizes, merits and distinctions) will be presented at the Ithaca Public Art Gallery on July 11, 2009.
The ten best posters (prizes and merits) will be exhibited on Ithaca's promenade from July 11 to August 31, 2009.
All prizes, merits, distinctions and finalists will be exhibited in Ithaca (Public Art Gallery) from July 11 to July 26 and in Athens (Melina Cultural Center) from September 17 to September 20, 2009.


The winners:
Prizes and Merits are awarded to the posters that gathered the highest score after the jury's voting.

1st prize: Lorans Duplan (France)
2nd prize: Fangyi Liu (P.R. China)
3rd prize: Prem Balasubramanian (India)

Merits: Tina Mämpel (Germany), Athanasios Davlouros (Greece), Efi Iliadou (Greece), Rodrigo Machado (Portugal), Lorans Duplan (France), Ian Noble (United Kingdom), Anna-Maria Vlassopoulou & Angelos Efstathopoulos (Greece)


Distinctions (in alphabetical order):
A distinction is awarded to the posters that have been marked with a 10 (the highest score) by at least one of the judges.
Min-Jae Choi (North Korea), Dimitris Deirmentzidis (Greece), Lex Drewinski (Germany), Ray G.S. (P.R. China), Korana Jelovac & Klara Šimunović & Marko Škobalj (Croatia), Daniel Kondo & Adriana Fernandes (Brazil), Marios Kouroufexis (Greece), Antigoni Moula (Greece), Jacek Rudowski (Poland), Lukas Ruskys (Lithuania), Christos Tsoleridis (Greece), Johner Ueli (Switzerland), Dasha Wagner (USA), Aleksandra Woldańska (Poland), Eleonora Xanthopoulou & Despina Aeraki (Greece)


Finalists (in alphabetical order):
Finalists are the posters that passed to the final stage of the selection.

Argentina: Carolina Alarcón Leguizamón, Marcos Muraro
Austria: Elisabeth Leeb, Irene Nemeth
P.R. China: Ray G.S., Hai-ping Li, Fangyi Liu, Ben H.S. Poon, Ruan Ruan
Cyprus: Angela Stavrinou
Czech Republic: Radim Mojzis
Egypt: Mostafa Al Agami
Finland: Olli Österberg, Eva Temponera
France: Marion Bergeron, Marie-Pierre Cravedi, Sonia Ouannoughi, Τamara Vignati, Laura Wasielewski & Morgane Baguet
Germany: Dirk Dassow, Lex Drewinski, Gramlich Götz, Katharina Lüdtke, Kristina Moersdorf
Greece: Dimitris Arvanitis & Espresso Studio (2 posters), Lili Bakratsa, Giannis Bartzis & Myriam Levi & Michalis Toumazou, Sofia Boboli, Olga Chouliara, Orestis Doulos, Eftychia Ermeidou, Chrysa Fragoudi & Tonia Stamati, Effi Gavrilou & Panajota Kantiani, Marianthi Grammatikou, Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Savvas Karampinos, Danae-Christina Kilaidoni & Michalis Kefallonitis, Marios Kouroufexis, Alexia Lougiaki, Konstantina Louka, Sofia Loukeri, Markos Markou & Vasilis Fotseinos, Charalambos Nazlidis, Maria Nicolaidou, Giannis Pallis, Stefanos Papadimos, Tasos Papaioannou, Christos Papatheodorou, Dimitris Politis, Stefanos Potamidis, Dimitra Psarou, Michalis Samiotis, Ioanna-Dimitra Stefanopoulou, Stefanos Strigkos, Renato Tatas, Panagiotis Thermogiannis, George Triantafyllakos (2 posters), Filimonas Ilias Triantafyllou, Panagiota Tsiga, Nikos Tsoutis, Giannis Vasilopoulos, Maria Xynopoulou, Dimitris Zervas
Hong Kong: Kylie Ku, Lung Wai NG & Executive Strategy Limited
India: Vinay Jois
Indonesia: Tetuko Hanggoro
Iran: Ali Afsarpour, Masoud Aghaie, Ayda Alizadeh, Siavash Farkhak, Vahid Fazel, Siamak Pourjabbar, Aydin Sheykh Oghli
Italy: Aurora Biancardi, Mirco Bompignano, Roberto Pretari & Matteo Pont, Daniela Venturini
South Korea: Kwang-hui Ahn, In-Jeong Choi, Sung Ok Park
Lithuania: Ivane Ksnelashvili
Moldova: Catruc Eugen & Constantin Sarcov
Netherlands: Janssen Maarten
Poland: Karol Growinski (2 posters), Wojciech Janicki (2 posters), Kamil Lewanowicz, Marcin Markowski, Weronika Skonieczna, Filip Tofil, Aleksandra Woldańska
Portugal: Vanessa Teodoro
Romania: Blanka Dulovecz-Horvát, Vass Jozsef
Russia: Olga Pavlova
Spain: Lisa Fernandez, Yael Jaroslavsky, Santiago Morilla Chinchilla
Switzerland: Sandra Hofacker
Thailand: Steve Tothill (2 posters)
Turkey: Ozlem Aslan
UK: Marcus Bolt, Matthew Dawson, Dave Pigeon, Yu Shane Yen
USA: Alex Egner (2 posters), Moon Jung Jang, Maria Sotiropoulou
Vietnam: Leo Media
Yugoslavia: Nevena Djokic, Nikola Grabacic


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