The EMPixx competition was created by David E. Carter, a multiple Emmy® and Clio®
winner with a long history of innovation for the creative world. Carter founded American
Corporate Identity, edited the Creativity Annual, and founded the Telly® Awards.
The EMpixx Awards is sponsored by the American Pixel Academy, an organization founded by professionals and educators in the pixel media.
The EMPixx Awards is open to professionals in the pixel media. Entries are judged on a standard of excellence. Entries scoring 9.0 or higher on a 10-point scale qualify for the Platinum EMPPixx Award. Those scoring 7.0 to 8.9 qualify for the Gold EMPixx Award.
The EMPixx Awards was announced in the midst of an economic crisis. Yet, the
competition attracted more than 600 entries. From those entries, 91 were selected as Platinum EMPixx Award winners, and 109 were selected as Gold EMPixx Award winners.
Well-known firms who are EMPixx winners include: Disney DVD Productions, Orlando Bloom, NASA, The Ritz-Carlton, Purdue University, Nissan North America, AT&T, Fox Sports Midwest, Intel, Epson, Nikon, YelowPages.com, and Simon & Schuster Publishing.