GDCAward 2019

International  Jury

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  Iyama Koji

  Artistic Director / Graphic Designer

  

  Iyama Koji

  Artistic Director / Graphic Designer

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  Was born in 1967. Graduated from Graphic Design in Tama University of Fine Arts.

  Worked at the Japan Design Center (NDC), and later set up a mountain design studio.

  Active in the planning, CI / VI development, commodity development and advertising, event planning, space design, book packaging design and other fields, aimed at establishing the best information exchange.

  Won the awards at home and abroad, such as D & AD highest award, Cannes International Creative Festival Gold Award, One show Gold Award, CLIO Gold Award, ADC Gold Award, Asia Creative Award and so on. Has served as the ADC Award in Japan, New York ADC Art Guide Club Award, New York Advertising Festival D & AD 2017 judges.

   

  

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  Ken Lo

  BLOW founder and design director, Hong Kong Victoria Harbor logo designer.

  

  Ken Lo

  BLOW founder and design director, Hong Kong Victoria Harbor logo designer.

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  Born in 1981, Ken Lo is the founder and design director of the famous Hong Kong design company BLOW, the designer of the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor logo. Over the years he has been actively creating individual works and participating in design activities, in a number of representative international and local design competition in the award-winning, winning more than 80. Including the Hong Kong Design Award, the Hong Kong Designers Association Global Design Awards, the Hong Kong Design Award and Gold Award, as well as the "Perspective" magazine selected as "Asia forty princes" Was selected by "Time Out" magazine as one of the 25 Hong Kong designers you need to know. In 2011, he won the Open Group title in the Victoria Harbor Logo Design Competition. The winning entries became Hong Kong landmarks - Victoria Harbor and were widely used in the instruction system of the promenade; and in 2001, he created his own design project "More Hugs by Ken Lo ", through the design and products to the world and society to promote love and tolerance of positive messages. He has received an authoritative international design platform and interviews with major media magazines in Hong Kong, including "Computer Arts", "étapes", "novum", "IDEA", "Designboom", "typographics: ti", "IdN "Design", "Design 360 °", "Weekly Illustrated", and "Design Design Live 2015" invited to the United States held a large-scale design seminar in Chicago to share design experience, in 2017 was "Wallpaper *" Magazine invited to Bangkok, Thailand to share packaging design.

   

  

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  Na Kim

  South Korea | graphic review class

  

  Na Kim

  South Korea | graphic review class

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  Na Kim is a graphic designer. After studying product design at KAIST and graphic design at Hong-ik Univ. in Korea, she participated to Werkplaats Typografie in the Netherlands. She had a design studio in Amsterdam and currently works in Seoul as a member of Table Union and involved in an artist-run-space, Common Center. She was selected as Next Generation Design Leaders in 2008, was awarded Doosan Artist Award in 2013, Today’s Young Artist Award in 2014, presented by the Ministry of Culture in Korea. Besides many other projects, she was responsible for concept and design of GRAPHIC magazine from 2009 to 2011. She has held solo exhibitions, such as SET, Doosan Gallery New York, 2015; Choice Specimen, Doosan Gallery Seoul, 2014; Found Abstracts, Gallery Factory, 2011; Fragile, BMH, 2006. In addition, she has been a curator for Brno Biennale, Chaumont Festival and Seoul International Typography Biennale. Her works been invited to many international exhibitions in Kukje Gallery, Seoul; MMCA, Seoul; V&A, London; MoMA, New York; Milan Triennale Museum, Milan; CAFA, Beijing and so on.



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  Jun He

  

  Jun He

  GRAPHIC JUDGES

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  Björn Kusoffsky

  Swedish | graphic review class judges

  

  Björn Kusoffsky

  Swedish | graphic review class judges

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  Björn Kusoffsky, founded in 1998 in Sweden Stockholm Design Lab company, has been committed to the use of simple and extraordinary ideas for the brand to create visibility and influence, is one of the most famous brand of visual institutions in northern Europe.

  AGI (International Graphic Design Alliance) members, won more than 150 international snowfall, including two Cannes Golden Lion Award, Palme d'Or, Asian Design Competition Gold Award, Red Dot Award, 6 Swedish Advertising Association Golden Egg Award, and access 2015 Platinumegg and 2014 Berlingpriset Lifetime Achievement Award.

  Serving multiple international clients including IKEA IKEA, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Volvo Cars, Coca-Cola Company, Björn Kusoffsky like to innovate in simple things, giving them different energy, which makes his design very smart.

   

  

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  Quan Payne

  Executive Creative Director/Graphic Designer 

  

  Quan Payne

  Executive Creative Director/Graphic Designer 

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  Quan is an international award winning Executive Creative Director with a distinguished career spanning Australia, South Africa and the United States.

  With a focus on holistic brand building, he has created global campaigns, identity systems, design and communication for some of the worlds most iconic and influential companies including Nike, Swarovski, Calvin Klein, COTY, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Chobani, Qantas and Woolworths South Africa.

  Quan brings this diverse global experience and combines it with a desire to create a culture of creative excellence to fulfill his vision for ideas that are both inspiring and influential.

  

   

  

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  Rene Toneman

  Graphic Design Jury

  

  Rene Toneman

  Graphic Design Jury

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  Rene Toneman (1973) is creative director and founder of SILO Agency in The Netherlands. He is also member of the board of the Association of Dutch Designers BNO.

  Rene graduated Graphic Design at the University of Arts in Breda, The Netherlands. He started his career as a graphic designer at the critically acclaimed Studio Dumbar. He developed in the field of visual identities for the larger and prominent enterprises. After leading a creative team at Fabrique he established a new creative agency in 2007, called SILO.

  

  SILO is a vibrant creative agency driven by research and innovation. The agency works at the intersection of brand, digital and spatial environments to advance the human experience. Currently the studio comprises of 15 multi-talented designers, engineers and developers. Clients include a.o. Droog, Mecanoo Architects, the Museum of Modern Art, Zaans Medical Centre, Muziekgebouw, Utrecht University, The National Military Museum and Delft University.

  Rene has been recognized during his career with the highest rewards from D&AD, ADC New York, the European Design Awards, Red Dot, ADCN, DDA and IF. In 2012, less than 5 years after establishment, his agency received the prestigious award 'European Design Agency of the Year' in Helsinki. In 2017 they received this honorary title again in Porto.On occasion Rene participates in competition juries such as ADC New York and ADC Amsterdam.



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  西マウンド涼子

  Adobe Systems Research and Development Headquarters Senior Japanese font designer.

  

  西マウンド涼子

  Adobe Systems Research and Development Headquarters Senior Japanese font designer.

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  1972 Japan Fukushima Prefecture was born. Adobe Systems Research and Development Headquarters Senior Japanese font designer.

  In 1995, Musashino art school modeling department visual communication design graduate. In 1997, he entered Adobe Systems. Under the tutelage of Otsuka Masahiko, he was involved in the development of 'Otsuka Akira' 'Otsuka Blackbody'.

  Since then, the design of the original Japanese Japanese fake fonts 'り ょ う' and 'り ょ う black body' series, and the full proportion of the font 'ka づ ら ki', 'Siyuan black body', 'Siyuan song'. Awarded prizes in Japan Senze international font contest, NY TDC evaluation award.

   

  

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  Liu Yongqing

  

  Liu Yongqing

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  Sammy Or

  

  Sammy Or

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  A seasoned typeface designer, Sammy Or’s career spans 30 years. He is one of the most prolific and important designers of contemporary Chinese typefaces. With a solid grounding in traditional Chinese calligraphy as well as thorough knowledge in current font technologies, Or’s typefaces are amongst the most widely used in the Chinese-speaking world today.
  
  Or began his work in typeface design as a Sign Systems Designer for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTR) in Hong Kong in the 1980s. At MTR, Or participated in the development of a corporate typeface for its wayfinding system, which is still in current use. Subsequently, he was employed by the Hong Kong branch of the Monotype Corporation as Type Manager and Chief Typographer. While at Monotype, Or developed over twenty Chinese typefaces, including the first Chinese digital LaserCom fonts for the Hong Kong Government’s Printing Department. The Monotype Sung and Hei families – typefaces of choice for numerous publications as well as the Hong Kong Government – are also his designs. In 1989, Or founded TTL Technology Limited. LiSung and LiGothic were the first Chinese outline fonts designed and developed for Apple Computers. These remain system fonts in the Macintosh operating system to this day.
  
  He also designed and marketed the popular ‘Li’ family of over thirty typefaces. In 1992, Or assumed the position of Vice-president and Chief Font Designer of DynaLab Inc., a preeminent font manufacturer in Asia. At DynaLab, Or was responsible for developing numerous new Chinese typefaces, as well as expanding its business to Shanghai and Japan. Or has also been a project development consultant for Bitstream Inc. for ten years, designing CJK fonts and developing stroke-based technologies for international fonts.
  
  Or is currently an independent typeface designer and font technology consultant based in Hong Kong. He is also an Assistant of vice-professor in Taiwan Shih Chien University, and a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.