Earlier today, we announced the winners of the 2011 CorelDRAW International Design Contest. As with the previous edition, the level of artwork submitted was truly amazing, and picking one grand-prize winner out of all the finalist entries was a very difficult part. I wanted to start by congratulating everyone who participate in the contest for truly amazing. You can view all the finalist of the 2011 contest in the gallery of the community.

And now to the winners of each categories:

• Advertising/Marketing: Joseph Diaz, United States - Winning entry here.
• Signs/Awards/Personalization: Aleksey Oglushevich, Russia - Winning Entry here. 
• Vehicle Wraps: Fabio Selani, Brazil - Winning entry here.
• Textile/Fashion Design: Dhananjay Garg, India - Winning entry here.
• General Illustration/Fine Art: Alexandra Malysheva, Ukraine - Winning entry here.
• CorelDRAW Marketing Campaign: Sandra Berenice, Mexico - Winning entry here.

In addition, I am really excited to announce that the Grand Prize Winner is Joseph Diaz with the following artwork:

And because the best person to talk about his design and his usage of CorelDRAW it the actual Grand Prize Winner, here is a short interview with Joseph:

On behalf of the whole CorelDRAW team here at Corel, congratulations to all the winners of the 2011 CorelDRAW International Design Contest!