Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest: 2010 Winners
Check out the 2010 winners, runner-ups, and a few of the most creative entries from the annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Winner, Registered Architect - Truc Dang Manh Nguyen, TDMN and Associates, Piedmont, California
The jury picked as “the best in show” a drawing of a gate from a Japanese garden by Truc Dang Manh Nguyen, an architect from Piedmont, California. The winner has practiced for 27 years and recently opened his own office. He prefers sketching to photographing buildings. “It forces the eye to focus and the mind to work,” he says, “and it’s easier to commit a work of architecture to memory through drawing.” Nguyen found the small size of the 5-inch-square cocktail napkin to be challenging, and confesses that this is the first time he actually tried to sketch on a cocktail napkin.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Runner-Up - Keegan Carmichael, Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, Boston, Massachusetts
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Runner-Up - David Fox, University of Tennessee School of Architecture, Knoxville, Tennessee
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Runner-Up - Choy Leow, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Runner-Up - Ernesto Librecht, AIA, Dallas, TX
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Runner-Up - Stanley Stark, HDR, New York, NY
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Runner-Up - John Henley, ESa, Nashville, TN
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Entries of Merit - Geoff Parker, AIA, Architecture Incorporated, Oklahoma City, OK
In addition to the winner and six runners-up, the RECORD editors selected additional sketches notable for their drawing techniques.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Entries of Merit - Moh'd Bilbeisi, RA, Bilbeisi Architects, Stillwater, OK
In addition to the winner and six runners-up, the RECORD editors selected additional sketches notable for their drawing techniques.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Entries of Merit - A.J. Staub, AIA, Consultant, Tupelo, MS
In addition to the winner and six runners-up, the RECORD editors selected additional sketches notable for their drawing techniques.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Entries of Merit - Jim Dawkins, AIA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
In addition to the winner and six runners-up, the RECORD editors selected additional sketches notable for their drawing techniques.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Entries of Merit - Virginia Larrea, Associate AIA, The Art Institue of Tampa, Tampa, FL
In addition to the winner and six runners-up, the RECORD editors selected additional sketches notable for their drawing techniques.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Off-Beat Entries - Jungsub Lee, ACOM, Alexandria, VA
And finally, these entries caught the editors’ eyes for approaching the contest in ways that were either innovative—or out-and-out bizarre.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Off-Beat Entries - James Walljasper, AIA (emeritus) Denver, CO
And finally, these entries caught the editors’ eyes for approaching the contest in ways that were either innovative—or out-and-out bizarre.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Off-Beat Entries - Rand Elliott, FAIA, Elliot + Associates, Oklahoma City, OK
And finally, these entries caught the editors’ eyes for approaching the contest in ways that were either innovative—or out-and-out bizarre.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2010
Off-Beat Entries - Aleksandr Sheykhet, RA, Studio Obermeier-Sheykhet Architecture, Denver, CO
And finally, these entries caught the editors’ eyes for approaching the contest in ways that were either innovative—or out-and-out bizarre.