Kyoorius Awards 2013 announces Jury

Elsie Nanji of Red Lion and Tania Singh Khosla of TSK Design, Bangalore, are part of high-power global judging panel

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | June 19, 2013

Creative platform Kyoorius Designyatra will be home to the Kyoorius Awards starting this year. A specialist jury panel has been selected for these awards, comprising some of the best and most inspirational creative professionals from across the globe. In a never before format for India, all jury members will gather in Mumbai or Delhi for an onground and open conversation jury session. They will discuss, debate and decide the winners via private voting.

The Kyoorius Awards has been conceptualised by Kyoorius in partnership with D&AD and the International Advertising Association (India Chapter).

The jury members are: Elsie Nanji, Managing Partner, Red Lion, Mumbai; Hansen Ho, Founder and Creative Director, H55, Singapore; Jeremy Leslie, Creative Director, MagCulture, London; Simon Sankarraya, Founding Partner and Creative Director, AllofUs, London; Tania Singh Khosla, Founder and Design Director, TSK Design, Bangalore; Gabor Schreier, Executive Creative Director of Saffron, Madrid; and Ton Van Bragt, Founding Partner and Creative Director, Design Team, Kuala Lumpur.

The jury will review entries from 9 professional categories including identity, packaging, communication, digital, space, books, editorial, craft and design for good. The jury will also review and nominate winners in the 6 student award categories – identity, typography, publication design, open brief, illustration and packaging. Each student winner would receive a free student pass to the 2014 Kyoorius Designyatra along with being featured in the annual awards showcase book.

Judging of entries would be based on key three criteria: originality of concept and visualisation; quality of execution; and relevance and context of the idea.

Kyoorius, D&AD and IAA India Chapter have worked closely on defining a clear process and understanding of India for the jury members. The jury has been selected keeping this understanding and exposure in mind – to reward the best in design – for India.

“We at Kyoorius aim to recognise and honour outstanding creative work across the country. It is an extended effort to follow international standards and gather all jury members in Mumbai to review, discuss and elect the best of the best over three intensive days., said Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder CEO, Kyoorius.

The deadline for entries has been extended to July 2, 2013. The awards ceremony will be held in Goa on August 29, 2013 at Kyoorius Designyatra. Winners in the professional categories get one free entry of their choice to the next D&AD awards and one for the winning studio to Kyoorius Designyatra 2013. All finalists and winners get space in the special beautifully crafted Awards Book – 5,000 copies will be printed and distributed across corporate world, agency and studios, all schools, institutions, etc.

About the Jury members:

  Elsie Nanji

Elsie is also a multiple award winner at both Indian and International award shows, including the Clio Awards, Cannes Lions, D&AD, Spikes Asia and The One Show. In 2011, The Economic Times voted Red Lion as one of the top five design brands in the country. Red Lion has also been the winner of a gold award at Goafest, both a silver and gold spikes at Spikes Asia, and a silver lion at Cannes, all in the design category.

 Hansen Ho

As founder and creative director of Singapore based design studio H55 which he founded in 1999, Hanson has created numerous visual identities, brand applications, and publications which have represented Singapore on an international level. These include the visual identity designs for the Singapore Pavilion at various Venice Biennales and the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize.

Featured by the Sunday Times as one of the top Graphic Designers in Singapore, Hanson has received recognition and awards from some of the most prestigious international design competitions for his works, including the British D&AD, New York Type Directors Club, New York One Show Design, Creative Circle Awards, Tokyo Type Directors Club, and the New York Art Directors Club.

Jeremy Leslie

Jeremy Leslie is a London-based creative director specialising in editorial design .Jeremy was recently elected a member of international design organisation AGI. He has art directed weekly and monthly magazines and has recently developed iPad apps for several magazines. Jeremy was creative director at John Brown Publishing, overseeing the creation of award-winning projects for clients including Virgin Atlantic and M-real papers. He also devised the children's encyclopedia Pick Me Up for Dorling Kindersley.

Simon Sankarraya   

AllofUs, founded in 2002, focuses on how technology can be used alongside traditional practices such as interior design, architecture, exhibition design and identity as well as working on internet-based projects and application design. He currently works with BBC, Coco-de-mer, Land Securities, Natural History Museum, NHS, Nokia, Publicis, Tate Britain and Sky. He has spoken at Design Indaba, IDN conferences in Sydney and Singapore, Flash Forward, The Typographic Circle and Designyatra in Goa.Simon  also teaches at the London College of Communication, Hyper Island in Sweden and Space Invaders in Copenhagen.

 Tania Singh Khosla

Tania Singh Khosla is the founder and design director of tsk Design, a brand and communication design consultancy in Bangalore, India.After graduating with an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University, USA, she returned to India to establish the firm in 1997.

Some significant projects include the MTV offices in Bangalore and Mumbai, Touch – a lounge bar in Hyderabad, Khyber – a leading restaurant in Mumbai amongst several others.

The work of tsk Design has been featured in numerous international books and publications including Creative Review, Eye and Wallpaper (UK), How and Interiors (USA); books such asIndian Design (Daab, Netherlands), Night Fever and Bon Appetit (Frame Publications, Amsterdam), Eating and Designing (Index Books, Spain), Asia Pacific Design 7 (China).

 Gabor Schreier

Gabor brings a unique mix of rigour and passion to brand expression projects as Executive Creative Director at Saffron. He leads a talented multicultural design team across Saffron's locations, advising clients such as A1 Telekom Austria, Rompetrol, Bankinter, Vueling, Coca-Cola and Swiss Re amongst others.

Prior to Saffron, he worked at Addison where he focused on identity and architecture projects with clients like Repsol, NH Hoteles and Telefónica. Before that he was part of the team at Schindler, Parent & Cie. Advance in Berlin, working for brands like Daimler and Smart.

Gabor is trilingual in German, Spanish and English and is a lecturer at the IE Business School, Istituto Europeo di Design and the EAE Business School in Madrid on branding and design

 Ton Van Bragt

Ton has worked as a senior designer at Studio Dumbar in the Netherlands, ran his own company, Van Bragt Ontwerpen, was art director at Philips Design Hong Kong, and is currently creative director at Design Team in Malaysia.

He has taught communication design at the University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands as well as the Centre for Advanced Design and Dasein Academy of Art, both in Kuala Lumpur.

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