Kyoorius Awards 2013
CORPORATE
Kyoorius Awards 2013 Announces its Jury
India’s most talked about creative platform Kyoorius Designyatra will be home to the Kyoorius Awards starting this year. The Kyoorius Awards have been conceptualised by Kyoorius in partnership with D&AD and the International Advertising Association (India Chapter).
A specialist jury panel has been selected for these awards, comprising of 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. Together they will discuss, debate and decide the winners via private voting.
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 one 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:
1) The originality of the concept and visualization
2) The quality of execution
3) The relevance and context of the idea
This year’s jury comprises some of the biggest names in the creative industry across the world.
Ø Elsie Nanji, Managing Partner, Red Lion, Mumbai
Ø Hansen Ho, Founder and Creative Director, H55 - Sinagpore
Ø Jeremy Leslie, Creative Director, MagCulture - London
Ø Simon Sankarraya, Founding Partner and Creative Director, AllofUs - London
Ø Tania Singh Khosla, Founder and Design Director, TSK Design - Bangalore
Ø Gabor Schreier, Executive Creative Director of Saffron, Madrid
Ø Ton Van Bragt, Founding Partner and Creative Director, Design Team, Kuala Lumpur
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 carefully selected keeping this understanding and exposure in mind – to reward the best in design – for India.
“We at Kyoorius aim to recognize 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 Mr. Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder CEO, Kyoorius.
The deadline for entries has been extended to 2nd July, 2013. The awards ceremony will be held in Goa on the 29th of August 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 – 5000 copies will be printed and distributed across corporate world, agency and studios, all schools, institutions, etc.
About Kyoorius
Since 2006, Kyoorius has galvanized the design community in India. A not for profit initiative by Transasia Fine Papers, Kyoorius has created and curated one of the world’s biggest and best annual conferences on design — Kyoorius Designyatra. Alongside, the Kyoorius Magazine is now the most celebrated publications on design. Distributed to over 3000 corporates — the biennial Kyoorius Showcase Book is the only and most comprehensive directory — bringing together over 150 design studios from across the nation. After 15 years of distributing and marketing premium fine papers, Papers by Kyoorius is Transasia's foray into launching definitive fine paper collections under the Kyoorius brand.
About D&AD:
D&AD is a membership organisation, awards programme and educational charity representing the global design and advertising community. It aims to promote, stimulate and enable creative excellence, with a view to generating sufficient funds to provide material support to creative people around the world.
About IAA:
The International Advertising Association is the world's only globally — focused integrated advertising trade association with membership representing advertising agencies and the media. The IAA comprises corporate members, organizational members, educational affiliates, as well as 56 chapters with individual members and young professionals from 76 countries including the top 10 economies in the world. lAA is 75 years old and is headquartered in New York. Membership to the Indian Chapter of IAA is by invitation only and IAA has very senior marketing, advertising and media professionals as it members. Recently they also admitted young professionals in a new class of membership to attract young people to join this industry body.
Comments
Post a Comment