The jury is made up of more than 50 world class creatives who are active in their communities. It is important that each category has a jury who are diverse in background, mentality, approach and opinion.
If the jury encounters projects outside their field of knowledge, we will bring in specialist additional jury members as needed. Each jury member will also have the privilege of recognising 1x outstanding project from the creative world that has not been officially entered.
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Freddy is a Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy. He Joined the London office in 2015 after working in a church in Amsterdam. Together with his creative partner Philippa Beaumont, he’s been responsible for some of WK’s most meme’d work, won awards at every major advertising award show, had his work featured on the front and back of every National newspaper, made a tv show that aired on Channel 4 and had his work worn by the Mayor of London.
Atiya is a creative who loves to create. She has over 20 years of experience in the advertising industry working on an array of local and international brands. She is the first Pakistani woman to be selected for Cannes Lions See it Be it program, D&AD’s Rare creative program and also the Pitch magazines’ 100 Superwomen list 2019. She also wrote a film which is available on Netflix.
Abdelrahman Gad, commonly known as Abdo Mohamed, is an awarded design director and type designer hailing from Egypt and currently based in Dubai. Drawing inspiration from the rich tapestry of Cairo, my designs bridge modern trends and timeless traditions. My love for design was deepened through my experiences in branding. With my project ‘Boharat’, I’ve aimed to bring fresh perspectives to Arabic typography.
Gian Jonathan and Astri Nursalim creative path first crossed during high school to design their yearbook. 17 years on, the husband-and-wife team now helmed Kinetic Singapore as Creative Directors and Partners. Never one to shy away from challenges, their projects ranging from design, advertising, spatial, social and branding. Their work have received recognition at international creative shows like the D&AD Awards, Cannes Lions Awards, The One Show, Young Guns, Tokyo Type Directors Club as well as Design of The Year at Singapore President Design Awards.
Claire directs and collaborates with teams of writers, designers, strategists, engineers, marketers, and business leaders on projects in brand identity, experience, brand voice, strategic messaging, naming, copywriting, and marketing campaigns.
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Liza is Partner and Creative Director at Studio Dumbar/DEPT®, an international agency with a Dutch heritage, specialising in visual branding and motion. Liza is directly involved with all main projects such as the visual identity for Amsterdam Sinfonietta, D&AD Creativity festival, brand refresh of the van Gogh Museum and co-initiator of DEMO – Design in Motion Festival.
YONK is a 3D animation studio specializing in Virtual Reality Sculpting to create bold, visually striking artworks, animations, and character designs. Their innovative use of this technology has led to a unique style that fuses raw, childlike sculpting with polished, vibrant aesthetics. YONK is driven by a mission to break free from traditional 3D boundaries, crafting work that’s playful, maximalist, and delightfully strange.
Through a VHS player, we enter the hyper-colored, funky universe of Ardhira Putra, a Singapore-based Indonesian artist who’s been turning his nostalgia into eye-popping works of art. He populates his illustrations and animations with characters, ad tags, and pop visuals inspired by the 1980s and 90s—all with a backdrop of swaying palm trees. This city pop style acts as a throwback to his beloved boyhood and the heydays of laissez-faire capitalism in Asia.
Glen Mccoy is an illustrator, animator, cartoonist and children’s book author. No other person has been honored by the National Cartoonist Society more than Glenn. His fourteen awards include Magazine Cartoonist of the Year, Editorial Cartoonist of the Year, Comic Strip Artist of the Year, Newspaper Panel Cartoonist of the Year and Greeting Card Artist of the Year awards.
Angela Kirkwood (she/her) is an illustrator and animator interested in experimenting with the endless possibilities of animation. She enjoys creating weird and wonderful topsy-turvy worlds filled with expressive characters, that inspire joy in the people that view them.
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Max is co-founder of Ragged Edge, a branding agency for changemakers. Alongside fellow co-founder Matt Bland, Max has built an agency for people who care less about how things are, and more about how they could be. Whether at scale or scaling up, Ragged Edge works with businesses with the conviction to challenge the status quo. Brands like Bulb, East London Liquor Co, Papier, Reveal and Mindful Chef.
Elliott Panam-Moody is the founder of The Brand Identity, a platform showcasing and celebrating graphic design’s greatest projects, studios, products and jobs. What started in 2015 as an Instagram account meticulously curating projects has become a treasure trove that is now trusted by a forward-thinking community of more than 1,000,000 creatives and companies.
Established in 2019 and led by Creative Directors Noemie Le Coz and Jeremy Elliot, Little Troop is a design studio driven by craft, culture and imagination. While very diverse, the studio’s aesthetic approach often involves inventing new worlds with a distinct sense of play. Created from a mutual vision linked by the idea that anything is possible, Little Troop’s projects always aim to push past mediocrity and create work with an original point of view.
Han Gao is a creative director and co founder of Workbyworks, a multi-disciplinary design studio based in New York and Shanghai. Working with clients around the world, they provide creative direction, branding, visual identities, packaging, website and book design. In response to the ever-changing creative design context, Workbyworks Studio shares flexibility in projects across a wide range of different fields, the influence take on various forms at large and small scale.
Nathan Fyock is a graphic designer based in New York. Before landing in his current role as Associate Design Director at Porto Rocha, Nathan worked across branding, packaging, experiential, and digital projects at R/GA in Los Angeles and Manual in San Francisco. With a focus on branding and design systems, Nathan’s work has reached global audiences for some of the world’s largest brands, including Twitch, Apple, and Nike.
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Jumping He was born in Fuyang, China. He is now living in Berlin, working as a graphic designer, writer and publisher. He is also a writer on design history and cultural history as well as a researcher on poster history. He has published monographs such as “History of Chinese Poster Art” and “Beyond Design”.
Liza is Partner and Creative Director at Studio Dumbar/DEPT®, an international agency with a Dutch heritage, specialising in visual branding and motion. Liza is directly involved with all main projects such as the visual identity for Amsterdam Sinfonietta, D&AD Creativity festival, brand refresh of the van Gogh Museum and co-initiator of DEMO – Design in Motion Festival.
Shamma Buhazza is a graphic designer and art director working across typography, print, and visual identity. Rooted in experimentation and cultural storytelling, her practice moves fluidly between client work and self-initiated projects, incorporating type manipulation, analog techniques, and unconventional visual languages. Professionally, she has collaborated with various brands such as Apple, Nike, and Adidas, as well as leading cultural institutions across the Middle East, shaping brand identities, exhibitions, and global campaigns.
Neville Brody runs his design agency, Brody Associates, from his London studio, working worldwide with clients such as Coca-Cola, BBC, Sony Music, Channel 4, Christian Dior, Supreme, Mayo Clinic, The Times, Samsung, and Shiseido. In 2025, he was awarded OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2025 King’s New Years Honours List for his services to Design.
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Gander is an award-winning creative company based in New York, and founded in 2015 on the principle of doing it all differently. We’re not interested in being big—we’re interested in being unforgettable. We’ve embraced a four-day week, while also building brands that captivate, inspire, and transform. We work with the ones who get it—those who value authenticity and trust us to take their vision somewhere it’s never been before.
LAVA北京 is an international graphic design studio based in Amsterdam and Beijing. The Beijing studio makes graphic work, always based on a simple concept, for both international and Chinese clients, for both cultural and corporate projects. In their design they try to connect with Chinese culture, using a conceptual Dutch approach. Next, to their commissioned work, they enjoy their self-initiated projects that involve hutongs, community and a hands-on design approach.
Wedge is a Brand & Design studio in service of distinct character. Strategically & aesthetically we invent, evolve, & craft soulful worlds that strike undeniable connection. Justin Lortie, co-founder, is an internationally awarded designer, former forest fire fighter, and forever a mountaineer who runs and explores outside as much as humanely possible.
Al Webb is a Creative Director at Made Thought where defining and guiding the creative vision across the creative team is the heart of Al’s role. Ensuring the team challenge the brief, themselves and the target consumer by creating thoughtful, relevant and emotive design solutions that people can connect with. Inspired and motivated by the opportunity to tackle complex brand and communication challenges with simple, iconic and timelessly relevant design solutions, Al has been instrumental in the creation and ongoing evolution of the work within the Made Thought studio.
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Growing up in Beirut before moving to London in 2005, Samar is fluent in three languages and two cultures. Spanning 20+ years across branding, digital storytelling, scenography and typography, her career has focused on balancing aesthetics, context and heritage with brand voice and purpose.
Johannes Breyer is a German / Chilean graphic designer based in Berlin. He studied in Zurich and worked for design studio NORM before graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Together with Fabian Harb, he is running the Swiss type design practice Dinamo. Founded in Basel, Dinamo operates via a network of satellite members across the globe, oscillating between commercial and cultural projects of varying scales. Winner of the Swiss Design Awards 2017, Member of AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale as of 2018.
Mat Desjardins is a Montreal graphic designer and the founder of Pangram Pangram Foundry, established in 2018. Prior to founding the foundry, Desjardins worked as a graphic designer for over a decade, including roles in advertising agencies and as a freelancer. His journey into typography began around 2015 when he started creating and sharing his own fonts, which led to the creation of Pangram Pangram.
Gregory Page is a Swiss graphic and type designer based in Zurich, Switzerland. With a focus on type related works, he offers visual solutions for individuals, small and big businesses based in various areas like music, culture, arts
Hyunsun You is a graphic designer at studio Workroom and studied Visual Communication design at Hongik University. She is a member of the image project group Filed with four photographers. She founded Kaufman, a brand that proposes objects based on quotes gleaned from books, movies, or music by interpreting them in a one-of-a-kind way.
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Tim Rodenbröker is a design educator dedicated to building an online school and a community for Creative Coding. His teaching is rooted in a deeply critical attitude to harmful mythologies of ‘technological progress’ and offers alternative, positive perspectives on technological simplicity. For Tim, Creative Coding is both a simple and versatile tool – not just to develop design systems for a wide range of media formats. More importantly, to demystify information technology.
HATO is an international design practice. Our team has over a decade of experience shaping contemporary design with clients around the world. We specialise in community-centric design through processes that incorporate play, design thinking and digital innovation. Our practice strives to create lasting legacies for brands and organisations whether they are looking to redefine their industry, set new trends or refine existing projects or branding.
Nikki (Niktari) Makagiansar is a designer, coder, and educator based in New York City who enjoys creating type-driven identity systems and websites. Nikki teaches coding and interaction design classes at Parsons School of Design and The Cooper Union. She’s also a member of The New Museum’s NEW INC, where she’s exploring the possibilities between design, code, and solidarity economies.
Knoth & Renner work on the intersection of digital culture and graphic design. They collaborate since 2011 in Berlin and Leipzig. Based on a deep appreciation for technology and it’s visual echo, Christoph Knoth’s and Konrad Renner’s interdisciplinary portfolio includes websites, identities, printed matter and apps.
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Harriet Richardson is a London-based performance artist who blurs the boundaries between digital and physical expression. Rooted in audience participation, her work explores the raw intersections of love, sex, connection, and addiction—while also confronting broader political themes, from class structures and conflict to the tech giant crisis and power of conceptual protest.
Bijan Berahimi is an Iranian-American graphic designer, curator, and the founder of FISK, a multi-faceted creative studio based in Portland, Oregon USA. He graduated with a BFA in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2013. With an emphasis on typography, image-making, and design systems, Berahimi has developed identities and campaigns for the world’s leading brands and musicians.
Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini initiated and co-founded Studio HanLi in 2018 (f.k.a. Hanzer Liccini). Operating from the leafy backyards of the Schöneberger Crelle-Kiez, the partnership specialises in graphic design, typography, and bespoke typefaces, often involving a heuristic approach. Since 2022, the studio manages the platform HAL Typefaces, an independent vendor for digital fonts and typographic exploration.
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Marina Willer is a graphic designer and filmmaker with an MA in Graphic Design from the Royal College of Art. Before joining Pentagram as a partner, she was head creative director for Wolff Olins in London. Consistently recognised as a leading figure in UK design, during the course of her career Willer has been the recipient of a variety of industry honours including Creative Review’s Creative Leaders 2017. In 2018 she was inducted into Design Week’s Hall of Fame, and in 2021 she was honoured with the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society of Arts.
Patrick Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London before relocating to Barcelona in 1991. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Timothy Goodman’s art and words have populated walls, packaging, clothes, products, magazine covers and one sanitation truck for brands such as Apple, Nike, Google, Samsung, MoMa, Netflix, YSL, Time, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. His partnerships have included a global collection of clothing with Uniqlo and a Nike b-ball shoe with Kevin Durant. He regularly partners with schools to create art for communities in NYC.
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Connor Campbell is a Scottish motion generalist based in London and creative director of experimental motion design practice CC Studio and Daisy Chain, working working across brand identity systems, music videos + typography in motion for clients such as Warp Records, Apple and Sundance Film Festival.
Morag’s mantra is ‘make happy those who are near and those who are far will come’. Born and Bred, Holloway, London, Morag has always lived in the city and has been fascinated by how colour pattern and words can change urban environments and peoples perceptions of spaces into places.
Mentor, philanthropist and entrepreneur DINES® pioneers creative change and is a coveted international speaker. Recognised for his distinctive style and vision, Dines has transformed the way brands connect with the new culture from EA Sports, Universal Music, Nike, Adidas, Fifa, Levis, Hasbro, Sony Music to the BBC . As Founder & Creative Director of creative agency STUDIO BLUP London, his insatiable desire to create cutting-edge creative & constantly evolve their approach provides brands a much-coveted window into the new culture.
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Bijan Berahimi is an Iranian-American graphic designer, curator, and the founder of FISK, a multi-faceted creative studio based in Portland, Oregon USA. He graduated with a BFA in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2013. With an emphasis on typography, image-making, and design systems, Berahimi has developed identities and campaigns for the world’s leading brands and musicians.
Connor Campbell is a Scottish motion generalist based in London and creative director of experimental motion design practice CC Studio and Daisy Chain, working working across brand identity systems, music videos + typography in motion for clients such as Warp Records, Apple and Sundance Film Festival.
Félicité Landrivon is a graphic designer based in Lyon, France, who specializes in creating posters for musical and cultural events.
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Patrick Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London before relocating to Barcelona in 1991. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Team Thursday is a graphic design studio set up by Loes van Esch and Simone Trum, based in Rotterdam. They focus on the design of visual identities, books and spatial objects. They do so with a special interest for typography, a curiousness for materials and the possible performativity of an object. Looking for patterns in everything and all around them, they search for how they can transform these into designs. Next to that they irregularly give workshops (inter)nationally, teach Typography at ArtEZ Arnhem, and host exhibitions.
Edmund Lock is a London-based British graphic designer. Currently he is the Creative Director at Two Times Elliott, an internationally recognised design studio for ideas that shape change. He leads branding and visual identity projects across luxury, beauty, wellness and fashion, blending bold expression with strategic clarity, rooted in narrative and typographic craft.
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Kiel D. Mutschelknaus is a designer with a focus on generative and motion work. Kiel attend Cranbrook Academy of Art for his MFA in 2D Design before joining the GD Department at MICA. Kiel has gained recent acclaim for development of Space Type Generator, an online motion and type generator.
Nika Simovich Fisher is a writer, design strategist, and educator based in New York. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design, where she directs the AAS program. She also runs Labud, a design and development studio. Nika is currently a board member at AIGA NY.
An art, design and motion practice, with experimentation at its core, XK studio specialises in the creation of high end 3D visuals and films. Founded by artists Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir, the studio has evolved into a team of creative minds who adopt a blend of artistic and technical approaches to craft meaningful narratives, mesmerizing motion and daring aesthetics.
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Ali Van Godil is a creative director, designer, and artist who makes work that honors the spiritual legacy of his people. He is also the founder of House of Gül, a creative studio and artistic practice, working globally while based in Portland and New York. The studio operates as a vessel of universal love through creative expression. Using design, art and production as a modality for raising consciousness and joy.
Roosje Klap is the founder of ARK. Klap studied Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and fresh out of school began her own studio, quickly developing an international network. Her interests lie in unconventional, artistic research and playful collaborations with artists, curators, architects, (type) designers, and writers. The research-based interdisciplinary approach is reflective of a generation of designers that define their assignments alongside commissions.
Nam Huynh is a Stuttgart-based designer in Germany. His work reaches from visual strategy, illustration, 3D-design, to experimental typography and animation. He has worked for clients all around the world. Together with Mark Bohle they have formed the creative collective N&MS.
