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.
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 | |
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 |
