For our second annual Illustration Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners from each of the following categories: Editorial, Personal, Advertising & Promotional, Product & Packaging, Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Product & Packaging category: Sterling Hundley.
Sterling Hundley is an acclaimed American illustrator, painter, and educator. His clients include Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times, NASA, Marvel, and HarperCollins. His winning submission is a packaging design, illustration, and typography project for the 40th Anniversary release of Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Ran, from STUDIOCANAL.
This year’s awards were sponsored once again by Format, an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can showcase your work your way, with no coding required. To learn more about Format, check out their website here or start a 14-day free trial.
We caught up with Sterling to ask him to share a bit about himself and his artistic process—check out our full interview below!


