The Breakroom

That’s right folks, another year’s icon design contest has reached its conclusion and with it, we are pleased to announce the Grand Prize, Runner-Up and People’s Choice winners of Pixelpalooza 2003. Needless to say that with 137 entries from all corners of the globe, the judges had their work cut out for them. In the end the judges selected 6 winners, and you the public chose the remaining three for People’s Choice. Together they represent the best in artistic achievement and originality for this year’s contest. It is also worthy to note that of the nine winners, only two came from the United States. It is clear that international icon artists have come into their own and we are pleased that Pixelpalooza continues to recognize them. Here are your 2003 winners:

Mac OS X Grand Prize
Invading Your Space by David Lanham – Orlando, FL

Mac OS X Runner Up
B’alam-a-rama
by Jamie McCanless – Madison, WI

Mac OS X People’s Choice
Penguin Icons by Everaldo Coelho – Curitiba, Brazil

CandyBar Grand Prize
Think Natural
by Christophe Bouchard – Rennes, France

CandyBar Runner Up
Piou
by Anne-Sophie Charpi

That’s right folks, the People’s Choice Voting phase of our annual Pixelpalooza contest is now closed, and a big thank-you goes out to everyone who voted. The results you see on the entry pages are not considered final however, as the official contest judging may affect the outcome. Keep your eyes peeled here on April 21st to find out who the big winners are. Love the anticipation!

That’s right folks, its that time again! Time for all of you regular visitors to the Iconfactory to get up and atom to vote for your favorite entries in this year’s Pixelpalooza contest. We invite you to visit each of the three category pages (OS X, CandyBar and Classic) and rate your preference for each entry. People’s Choice voting runs from today until Midnight April 12th and the winners will be announced along side of the Grand Prize and Runner up winners selected by this year’s judges on April 21st.

Lastly, we know it may be tempting to try to find ways to cheat and vote more than once for a particular category, but please don’t. Artists from around the world have put their hearts and souls into their creations, and if you value their efforts, please treat the contest with respect and vote only once in each of the three categories. If we detect that people are stuffing the “ballot box” as it were, we reserve the right to reset the vote totals, or just plain cancel People’s Choice Voting for 2003. As long as everyone plays nice, we’ll do just fine, so we’ll keep our fingers crossed. Now get voting!

The official deadline to submit entries for this year’s Pixelpalooza contest has passed. A sincere thank-you goes out to everyone who entered this year, your creativity has helped to make Pixelpalooza 2003 a huge success!

For all of those who do not see your entry posted on the contest pages, please be patient. Everyone who submitted their entry prior to the deadline is in the queue for review and inclusion in the contest, and as long as your icons don’t violate contest rules, you’ll be good to go.