Awards: 73 creatives from Asia-Pacific will join the D&AD 2021 Awards Jury

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LONDON, UK – D&AD today announce the Jury members that will preside over the judging of the organisation’s 2021 Awards programme. This year, 73 professionals from across the Asia-Pacific region have been selected to join the jury, dedicated to recognising and celebrating the most thought provoking creative work of the past year.

Since 1962, D&AD has stimulated and enabled creative excellence and will continue to support the creative community through this period of unprecedented uncertainty. The 2021 Awards will recognise exceptional work created within the past year in the belief that platforming creative thinking is always worthwhile, particularly in times of strife.

Following the success of the 2020 Awards, D&AD’s distinguished jurors will once again assemble virtually to review the work, holding each piece to the same high standards that the Awards are renowned for. The only exceptions are the Branding, Graphic, Product, Packaging, Book, Magazine & Newspaper Design and Writing for Design categories, where in-person judging is essential.

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The panels for this year’s awards will be led by some of Asia-Pacific’s leading creative thinkers, including; Jean Lin, Global CEO, Creative of Dentsu Inc., leading the new E-Commerce category, Charu Aggarwal Harish, Chief Strategy Officer at Havis Group India, heading up the Media jury, product designer Gen Suzuki driving the Product Design category, and Virginia Lung, Design Director & Owner of One Plus Partnership leading the Spatial Design jury.

The list of confirmed Jury Presidents and judges from the Asia-Pacific region can be viewed at the end of this press release and on the D&AD website, with further judges currently being confirmed.

As the creative industries constantly evolve, the D&AD Awards evolve with it. Multiple new categories this year aim to represent the changing landscape of the creative sector, each being judged by leading figures within each discipline. New categories include E-commerce, Gaming, Type Design and Next Photographer, with additional subcategories within Low Budget and New Realities and Emerging Media.

Donal Keenan, Awards Director at D&AD, commented: “We are always striving to award the most ambitious, thought provoking work through the D&AD Awards, which can only be achieved through the expertise of our judges. Last year’s jury showed us that the meticulous judging process can be successfully replicated in a virtual fashion, something we are continuing this year. There is no doubt that our exciting list of industry experts will once again take the challenge in their stride and reflect D&AD’s pride in the celebration of the creative industries.”

A full list of this year’s Jury, alongside details on the new categories, judging criteria and pricing, can be found on the D&AD website.

The 2021 D&AD Awards are now open for entry.

Full list of D&AD Awards Jury Presidents and Judges from Asia-Pacific:

Jury	Role	Name	Title	Company
Direct	Jury President	Paul Chan	CCO	Cheil Hong Kong
E-Commerce	Jury President	Jean Lin	Global CEO, Creative	Dentsu
Media	Jury President	Charu Aggarwal Harish	Chief Strategy Officer	Havas Group India
Product Design	Jury President	Gen Suzuki	Product Designer & Owner	Gen Suzuki Studio
Spatial Design	Jury President	Virginia Lung	Design Director & Owner	One Plus Partnership
Visual Effects	Jury President	Allison Brownmoore	Creative Director & Founder	Past Curfew
Animation	Jury Judge	So A Ryu	Designer	FCB Chicago
Animation	Jury Judge	Suresh Eriyat	Founder & Director	Studio Eeksaurus
Animation	Jury Judge	Masa Tagaya	Executive Creative Director	Grey Tokyo
Art Direction	Jury Judge	Barbara Humphries	Creative Director	The Monkeys
Art Direction	Jury Judge	Jody Xiong	Founder & Chief Creative Officer	The Nine
Book Design	Jury Judge	Deshna Mehta	Co-founder and Creative Director	Studio Anugraha
Book Design	Jury Judge	Sakiko Kobayashi	Creative Director	Here Design
Branding	Jury Judge	Patrick Guerrera	Founder & Chief Executive Officer	Re\| Sydney
Casting	Jury Judge	Ko Iwagami	Casting Director	Kaiju Inc
Cinematography	Jury Judge	Davi Sing Liu	Regional CCO	Grey Group Greater China
Design Transformation	Jury Judge	Tomomi Sayuda	Design Researcher	University of Tokyo
Design Transformation	Jury Judge	Felicity Stevens	Strategy Director	Alt Group
Design Transformation	Jury Judge	Pops KV Sridhar	Global Chief Creative Officer	Nihilent HyperCollective
Digital	Jury Judge	Vince Lagana	Executive Creative Director	The Monkeys
Digital Design	Jury Judge	Tea Uglow	Creative Director	Google
Digital Design	Jury Judge	Nick de Jardine	Designer & Developer	Grafik
Digital Design	Jury Judge	Chirag Grover	Lead Digital Designer	Landor & FITCH
Digital Design	Jury Judge	Qanta Shimizu	Technical Director	BASSDRUM
Direct	Jury Judge	Tony Liu	Chairman / Chief Creative Officer	M&C Saatchi Aeiou
Direction	Jury Judge	Richard Bullock	Director	Revolver & Hungryman
E-commerce	Jury Judge	Ronald Ng	Global Chief Creative Officer	MRM/McCann
E-commerce	Jury Judge	Scott Dungate	Executive Creative Director	Wieden & Kennedy
Editing	Jury Judge	Aika Miyake	Editor	Cut + Run, ARC Edit
Editing	Jury Judge	Elise Butt	Editor	Trim Editing
Editing	Jury Judge	Priyank Prem Kumar	Editor	Freelance
Entertainment	Jury Judge	Pete Baker	Experiential and Film Director/Senior Partner	The Glue Society
Entertainment	Jury Judge	Fish Chen	Managing Director & Chief Creative Officer	Havas Taiwan
Experiential	Jury Judge	Omar Sotomayor Noel	Creative Director	BBH Asia Pacific
Experiential	Jury Judge	Jon Ip	Executive Creative Director	AKQA
Experiential	Jury Judge	Emmanuel Upputuru	Chief Creative Officer	Cheil Worldwide Gurgaon
Film Advertising	Jury Judge	Senthil Kumar	Chief Creative Officer	Wunderman Thompson
Film Advertising	Jury Judge	Valerie Madon	Chief Creative Officer Asia	VMLY&R
Gaming	Jury Judge	Kailin Zhu	Senior Designer	ustwo
Graphic Design	Jury Judge	Hana Tanimura	Senior Designer	Google Creative Lab
Graphic Design	Jury Judge	Birger Linke	Chief Creative Officer	Birger Linke Design
Graphic Design	Jury Judge	Jo Roca	Creative Director	For The People
Illustration	Jury Judge	Amanda Gaskin	Creative Director	Seachange
Illustration	Jury Judge	Qian Jiang	Art Director	QU MINMIN + JIANG QIAN
Illustration	Jury Judge	Shaivalini Kumar	Art Director	Supernova Design
Impact	Jury Judge	Vince Frost	Founder	Design Your Life
Integrated	Jury Judge	Marina Danjo	Creative Director	Dentsu
Media	Jury Judge	Boris Cho	Senior Director, Strategy	GroupM
Media	Jury Judge	YouLi Hooi	Agency Head	Spark Foundry
Media	Jury Judge	Garima Khandelwal	Chief Creative Officer	Mullen Lintas
Packaging Design	Jury Judge	Lin Shaobin	Design Director	LinShaobin Design
Photography	Jury Judge	Belle Verdiglione	Photographer	Freelance
PR	Jury Judge	Hira Mohibullah	ECD	BBDO Pakistan
Press & Outdoor	Jury Judge	Selina Wong	Senior Art Director	Humanity
Press & Outdoor	Jury Judge	Josy Paul	Chairman and CCO	BBDO India
Product Design	Jury Judge	Xiaohui Wang	Product Manager	Dots
Production Design	Jury Judge	Fiona Crombie	Production Designer	Freelance
Radio & Audio	Jury Judge	Lesley Chambers	Producer & Voice Casting Professional	The Casting Chambers
Spatial Design	Jury Judge	Alvin Chan	ECD Samsung Global IM Retail/Digital Experience	Cheil WW Seoul
Spatial Design	Jury Judge	Sidhartha Talwar	Principal	Studio Lotus
Spatial Design	Jury Judge	Hokuto Ando	Designer	we+
Typography	Jury Judge	Noopur Datye	Co-Founder & Type Designer	EK Type
Typography	Jury Judge	Mariko Takagi	Associate Professor	Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Typography	Jury Judge	Ken-tsai Lee	Director	LiGenZai Creative Lab
Type Design	Jury Judge	Kris Sowersby	Typeface Designer	Klim Type Foundry
Type Design	Jury Judge	Min-Young Kim	Typography Consultant	Freelance
Type Design	Jury Judge	Qian Sun	Independent Designer	Maester Design
Writing for Advertising	Jury Judge	Ankita Tobit	Senior Creative	We Are Pi
NEXT	Jury Judge	Pebble Goh	VP Creative Director	BBDO NY
NEXT	Jury Judge	Mangesh Kavale	Creative Director	Grey India
Side Hustle	Jury Judge	Farid Bawa	Founder / Snr Designer	All India Permit / DDB
Side Hustle	Jury Judge	Sarah Vincenzini	Associate Creative Director	M&C Saatchi Australia
Side Hustle	Jury Judge	Eric Ju Yoon Kim	Co-Founder and CEO	Dot Incorporation