- Leading creatives from across Asia-Pacific will act as Jury Presidents for this year’s Awards, representing top brands and agencies including Dentsu Inc., Havas Group India and Gen Suzuki Studio
- New categories for the 2021 Awards to be chaired by experts in the field.
- As the pandemic continues, judging will remain primarily in a digital format, maintaining the rigorous standards of the 2020 Awards
London, 27th January 2021: 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. A full list of key dates can be found in the Notes to Editors.