Devin Croda

The story of San Francisco's 2D winner, Devin Croda, is a bit different from Weinberg's and Stolte's. First of all, he's younger, with less real-world experience, having graduated from the visual communications program at U.C. Davis just last year. Also, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

That's him in the foreground in the T-shirt, beer (?) in hand. He's listening as Cut&Paste founder John Fiorelli briefs the participants backstage.

(For a pictorial overview of the tournament, see our related gallery, "Digital designers duke it out at Cut&Paste." And you can check out our introduction here.)