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Jury
The international jury consists of eleven major figures in the field of
visual communication design and from various countries of the world.
A parallel panel of judges, equally authoritative, will evaluate the works
of Researchers Category.
A scientific committee will award the Lifetime Achievement Award,
which may also be a memorial one.
Jury decisions taken by the majority of members are unquestionable and will be reported in a record filed with Aiap and put online on the AWDA website.
AWDA Jury
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John L. Walters
John L. Walters
Eye magazine
Great BritainJohn L. Walters is editor and co-owner of both Eye magazine and Pulp for the Italian paper company Fedrigoni. He founded the group Landscape (landscape.band) and worked as a composer/record producer before launching the music magazine Unknown Public with Laurence Aston. For five years he has been a columnist for the music section of The Guardian. Walters is the author of Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress (2016) and he has won three ‘Editor of the Year’ BSME (British Society of Magazine Editors) awards. He has been an editor for Eye since 1999.
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Solace Emefa Adzei
Solace Emefa Adzei
PADI Pan-Afrikan Design Institute
Pan-AfrikaSolace Emefa Adzei is a creative problem solver who is always looking for new and innovative ways to push the boundaries of design. Working as a lecturer at the Department of Graphic Design of the University of Education, in Winneba - Ghana, she also pushes her students by helping them hone their skills in design and animation. Adzei has a Degree in BFA (Graphic Design), an MA in Publishing from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and an Msc. in Digital Media Production from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford - United Kingdom.
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Cinzia Ferrara
Cinzia Ferrara
Curatrice AWDA
ItalyCinzia Ferrara, architect and graphic designer, is associate professor at Department of Architecture in the University of Palermo, where she is researcher in the field of visual communication. Actually is Delegate for the Visual Communication of the Department of Architecture. She is Past President of AIAP. Besides her design work, she writes on visual communication, teaches and holds lectures at international conferences and several Italian universities and design schools.
She has written numerous essays and articles published in national and international magazines. She is the supervisor as well as organizer of conferences, exhibitions and workshops. She is also a member of editorial committees, observatories and European projects. She lives and works in Sicily.
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Fabiana Ielacqua
Fabiana Ielacqua
AIAP Associazione italiana design della comunicazione visiva
ItalyFabiana Ielacqua, graduated in Graphic Design with a master's degree in Design Management, designer AIAP Italian Association of Visual Communication Design - and teacher. AIAP vice president. "I am a relationship designer, I don't design objects. Specifically, I work in terms of strategic design and design management. I find myself acting as a connector and in coordination of teams, applying a design-oriented vision and a human-centered approach. This work finds its place in Visual & Graphic Studies, Education Design and the cultural sector."
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LaTigre
LaTigre
AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale
ItalyLaTigre is a graphic design studio founded and directed by Luisa Milani and Walter Molteni, an internationally recognized creative team and AGI member.
Since 2009 the graphic studio has engaged in a tireless and continuous search for multiform and kaleidoscopic visual languages. The formal research is permeated by the synthesis and vibrant use of colour, and by the limit between abstraction and the figurative which sometimes becomes indefinable.
a-g-i.org
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Jonas Liugaila
Jonas Liugaila
LDA Lietuvos dizaino asociacija
LituaniaJonas Liugaila began his career as a freelance designer, focusing on education and design interaction. Now, as co-founder and design strategy lead for the design and research agency CRITICAL, he works on diverse projects that drive measurable change. Jonas is also a junior researcher at Kaunas University of Technology, where he has specialized in the study of platforms for circular design, and an associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts, teaching Brand Positioning. His public roles include Secretary General of the International Council of Design and board memberships in the Lithuanian Design Association and Lithuanian Design Council.
www.lda.lt
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Stina Löfgren
Stina Löfgren
Svenska Tecknare
SwedenStina Löfgren (1980, Vilhelmina, Sweden) works with both images and objects, and has a heart that beats for the handmade. She holds an MFA in illustration from Konstfack and she works as a designer as well as an artist. Recently, Stina Löfgren has worked on a range of different commissions, such as illustration, graphic design, interior design and public art. The ink drawings and the drawn line are always her main tools. She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.svenskatecknare.se
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Susana Machicao
Susana Machicao
BICeBé Bienal del Cartel Bolivia
BoliviaSusana Machicao is a Bolivian visual communicator, graphic designer and cultural manager. Director of the Bolivia Poster Biennial BICeBé, Regional Coordinator of Tipos Latinos. Founder and director of LATAM_D, Director of Diseñadores Gráficos Bolivia and creator of the international project Mujeres Diseñadoras (Women Designers). In 2016, she was recognized as a Design Professional of the University of Palermo in the Latin American Forum of Design Schools, Ambassador in the Council of Latin American Design. Member of the Advisory Committee BIAPE Barcelona, Honorary Member of the International Poster Biennial of Warsaw, Founding Member of CAMEBOL Chamber of Women Entrepreneurs of Bolivia. International juror, speaker and workshop leader.
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Zahra Pashaei
Zahra Pashaei
IranZahra Pashaei (aka Zara) is an experienced graphic designer and art researcher with a strong academic background. Throughout her career, she has held various roles in prestigious institutions and has taught at respected universities and art centers for over a decade. Pashaei's portfolio highlights her participation in numerous exhibitions and successful showcases. Additionally, she has served as a judge in graphics and photography events, supporting emerging talents. She has also written extensively, publishing articles and three specialized graphic design books in domestic and international publications.
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Amanda Schutz
Amanda Schutz
DesCan Design Professionals of Canada
CanadaAmanda Schutz is founder and Creative Director of Curio Studio since 2003. After her graduation from MacEwan University (where she became a licensed Design Instructor), Amanda founded Curio from her downtown apartment with no initial budget and no clients. Twenty years and over 600 clients later, Amanda’s adventurous talent, inexhaustible work ethic, and insatiable auto-didactism has sustained an illustrator-led design boutique renowned for dependability and high quality of output. Outside of Curio, Amanda is a fine artist, a professional illustrator, and founder of the non-profit Canadian Women in Design. In 2022, Amanda was named a Fellow of the Design Professionals of Canada; only 72 other individuals have been bestowed this distinction since 1960. Amanda is a proud mother of her son, Jacob and of roughly three thousand tomato plants.
descan.ca
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Zeynep Tonguç
Zeynep Tonguç
GMK Grafikerler Meslek Kurulusu
TurkeyZeynep Tonguç is President of the GMK Turkish Graphic Designers Association. She was born in 1978, and was accepted to one of the UK's top five art and design schools. Upon receiving her diploma in Graphic Design, she returned to Istanbul and has worked closely with many of Turkey’s leading brands. Always an enthusiast for good design evoking emotions, she founded PEP Creative Design Studio in 2008 with a mission to make a difference in the brand story by touching users' hearts. With an idea-driven mindset and 20+ years experience, Tonguç and her team have been managing, designing and implementing meaningful, smart and seductive brand experiences. She has been invited to speak at national and international seminars and jury panels.
www.gmk.org.tr
pepistanbul.com
AWDA Jury / Research
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Marta Bernstein
Marta Bernstein
Designer and Researcher
Marta Bernstein is a designer, researcher and teacher, currently Creative Director at Studio Matthews (Seattle USA). She has a decade of experience in developing multimedia identities, designing exhibitions and wayfinding systems. Type and typography are her true passions and the common threads of all her projects. She has a soft spot for 19th-century type, a topic she has been researching and presented at Typographics, Letterform Archive and ATypI. Since 2007 she has taught on a regular basis in international universities and design schools.
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Dario Carta
Dario Carta
Graphic Designer and historian
Dario Carta (1977) is a graphic designer and historian. After pursuing humanistic studies (a Master’s Degree in Contemporary History and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology), he founded the independent studio #cartadesign, which works with historical institutes, cultural foundations and public administrations. The Studio focuses on cultural projects, among which the design of visual systems for historical, documentary and art exhibitions. At the same time, the Studio specializes in editorial projects. For some years, the Studio has been working on visual and non-visual projects related to contemporary topics: gender, lgbtqia +, human rights, migration, identities, and conflicts. Alongside these activities, Dario Carta conducts research into the history of visual communication, with particular attention to propaganda and political communication, editing publications. He has been general secretary of AIAP, Italian Association of Visual Communication Design since 2019, and he is professor of graphic design and history of visual communication in several advanced schools in Milan.
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Benedetta Crippa
Benedetta Crippa
Graphic Designer
Benedetta Crippa works as graphic design director in Stockholm (Sweden) running her own practice Studio Benedetta Crippa. Strong of a unique visual language and extensive experience of design processes, she is also a recognised researcher and educator on the intersections of visuality and power. Through her exploration of the politics of ornamentation, she advocates for an evolved design field grounded in the transformative power of aesthetics.
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Luciana Gunetti
Luciana Gunetti
Historian and Researcher
Luciana Gunetti is an historian and teaches in the area of theory, criticism and history of communication design at the Design School at the Politecnico di Milano. She works at the enhancement, research and management of archives at the Historical Archives and Museum Activities at the Politecnico di Milano. PhD in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication. She is the author of essays and articles published in national and international books and magazines.
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Laura Moretti
Laura Moretti
AWDA Curator
Laura Moretti is a visual communication designer and the owner of the studio that bears her name. In addition to her professional activity, she has been pursuing teaching activities since 2005. Today she teaches "Layout, visualization techniques and materials" at the IED in Florence. She curates and organizes exhibitions, conferences, and workshops on graphic design and hand printing. She was selected at the ADI Design Index in 2016 for the AWDA coordinated image project, Aiap Women in Design Award.
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Jonathan Pierini
Jonathan Pierini
Director ISIA Urbino
Jonathan Pierini is a type designer and graphic designer. He obtained a bachelor's degree at ISIA Urbino and a master's degree in Type & Media at the KABK, in the Netherlands. In London, he worked at Dalton Maag Ltd and from 2011 to 2017 he was Researcher and Adjunct Professor in Graphic Design at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen. He has been director of ISIA Urbino since September 2017 where he also teaches graphic design and typography. Between 2018 and 2023, he was director of Progetto Grafico magazine.
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Daniela Piscitelli
Daniela Piscitelli
Full Professor in Design
Full Professor of Industrial Design, she specialises in Communication Design and in particular with the ethical dimension of the project and the centrality of communication design for new emergencies. Vice-president of SID (Italian Design Society) and World Regional Representative for the International Institute for Information Design. Former Secretary General and vice-president of ICoD, as well as former Aiap President and PoliDesign vice-president. She was a member of the «Commission of study for the identification of public policies for design support and development» established by Mibac and the Miur's «Table on design».
linkedin.com/in/daniela-piscitelli-0b17685
AWDA Scientific Committee
Maddalena Dalla Mura
AIS/Design President
Associazione Italiana Storici del Design
Carla Palladino
AWDA Curator
AIAP Women in Design Award
Mario Piazza
Scientific Director of CDPG AIAP
Centro di Documentazione sul Progetto Grafico AIAP
Marco Sammicheli
Director of Museo del Design Italiano
Triennale di Milano
Marco Tortoioli Ricci
AIAP President
Italian Association of Visual Communication Design
The Juries of the past editions
2019
Nilam
P Moeliono IDN
Laura
Moretti ITA
Justus
Oehler DEU
Alice
Rawsthorn GBR
Maria
Sætre NOR
Marco
Tortoioli Ricci ITA
Jury / Research
Gianluca
Camillini ITA
Cinzia
Ferrara ITA
Melania
Gazzotti ITA
Francesco
E. Guida ITA
Raimonda
Riccini ITA
2017
Reza
Abedini IRN
Nikki
Gonnissen NLD
David
Grossman ISR
Jianping
He CHN
Carla
Palladino ITA
Anty
Pansera ITA
Daniela
Piscitelli ITA
Mandar
Rane IND
2015
Majid
Abbasi IRN
Iva
Babaja HRV
Yeşim
Demir TUR
Cinzia
Ferrara ITA
Laura
Moretti ITA
2012
