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The 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards announces its jury

21.03.2012 News

San Jose (United States) - The 2012 AdobeÂ® Design Achievement Awards has announced this year's judges. Adobe and Icograda selected a panel of outstanding individuals from their international networks to review this year's submissions.

The ADAA jury is broken down into two groups:

The Preselection Panel
The Category Judges

The Pre-Selection panel has already evaluated the first round of submissions online to select deserving semifinalists. They will continue to judge Periods II and III following the close of each deadline. Semifinalists will send their work to the Adobe headquarters in San Jose. Category judges will be invited to San Jose on 13-15 August to pore over all semifinalist entries and select category winners for this year's competition.

The 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Award jury is comprised of:

Category Judges

Daniel Biasatti (United States) - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
GrÃ©goire Cliquet (France) - L'Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique
Nancy Juliber (United States) - Strategic Creative Media Marketing Executive
Mikael Kanfi (Canada) - Twist Image
Richard Loveless (United States/Singapore) - Global Connections/Nanyang Technological University
Susan Metros (United States) - The University of Southern California
Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Japan) - Q Entertainment
Ravi Naidoo (South Africa) - Interactive Africa / Design Indaba
Hephzibah Pathak (India) - Ogilvy & Mather Advertising
Fernanda Saboia (Brazil) - T?til Design
Tina Shaw (United States) - NBC Universal Digital Entertainment

Pre-Selection Panel

Paul Bellila (France) - Independent Designer
Bryan Berger (United States) - Mindspark
Nina Boesch (United States) - Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Mark Bunch (United States) - SFGovTV
Mark Busse (Canada) - Industrial Brand
James Buyayo (United States) - BRUTE LABS
Todd Carpenter (United States) - Todd's Media
Yeong Woong Cheong (South Korea) - Eeung
Josh Clark (United States) - WANDER
John Close (United States) - Push Design
Heather Crank (United States) - Crank Design
Christian Eggenberger (Switzerland) - Hitch-Design
Rafiq Elmansy (Egypt) - Adobe User Group in Egypt
Eric Finkelman (United States) - Original City
Robin Howie (United Kingdom) - Independent Designer
Matthew Ipcar (United States) - Blue State Digital
Daphne Janelle (United States) - SBCC - Film Production
Brian W. Jones (Sweden) - WelcomeÂ™
Johnny Kelly (United Kingdom) - Johnny Kelly
Tyler Kupferer (United States) - Independent Filmmaker
Kris Lane (New Zealand) - Alt Group
Vanessa Luchtan (United States) - Vanessa Luchtan
Kyle McArdle (United States) - Digital Designer & Developer
Chau Nguyen (United States) - Interactive Developer a
Adam Paterson (London) - The Agency of Design
Sara Poli (Italy) - Tomomot visual design
David Prosser (United Kingdom) - Dave Prosser
Jennie Reinish (USA) - Tidepool Pictures
Margherita Rubini (italy) - Freelancer working for Jekyll Hyde
Julia Staples (United States) - Julia Staples
Sean Teegarden (United States) - Sean Teegarden Photography
Peter Hing Ty (United States) - Peter Ty
Maowei Yu (United States) - dbox
Monica Zacarias (Mexico) - Independent Designer

Two more periods to go!

Currently in progress, the second period for this year's competition will close on 27 April 2012. The final and third period will begin right after and end on 22 June 2012, Pacific time.

Free to enter, the 2012 Adobe Awards is an international competition accepting entries from students, faculty members, and staff members of higher education institutions around. Participants may submit work up to 3 times in each of the 15 student categories or in 3 faculty and staff categories. Visit the FAQ section of the awards website for more details.

Prizes

As part of their prize, finalists will receive Adobe software and a trip to Los Angeles, CA to attend the Adobe MAX Conference taking place on 20-24 October 2012. Category winners also will receive a cash award of USD $3000.