Kyoorius unveils jury for 2016 Design Awards; Gabor Schreier is Jury Foreman

Kyoorius has unveiled its jury for the fourth edition of the Kyoorius Design Awards. The jury sessions will take place from September 2 to 4, 2016 at the école intuit.lab in Mumbai. The Kyoorius Design Awards recognise, honour and award the most outstanding creative work in the Indian visual communications sphere.

Gabor Schreier, Executive Creative Director, Saffron Brand Consultants, will chair the jury at the Kyoorius Design Awards this year. He specialises in creative strategy, brand positioning and architecture, visual identity systems, branded environments, signing systems and sound branding.

This year, the Kyoorius Design Awards received a total of 468 entries across all categories, from design studios, advertising agencies, freelance designers, brand consultancies and corporate from across India. The Kyoorius Awards have a wide-ranging list of categories, planned to recognise individual components as well as entire campaigns and projects that exist on multiple platforms and channels. A specialist jury composed of the top creatives from across the world, will gather to review, discuss and elect the best of the best over three intensive days. All the voting is done in private and never by a show of hands.

Under the Kyoorius Design Awards, the jury also comprises:

• Tnop Wangsillapakun, Founder & Design Director, TNOP Design

• Prasanna Sankhe, Co-Founder & Creative Head, Hyphen

• Sarita Sundar, Founder, Hanno

• Kurnal Rawat, Creative Director, Landor

• Katherina Tudball, Design Director, The Partners

• Ayaz Basrai, Co-Founder, The Busride Design Studio

Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder and CEO of Kyoorius, commented, “With our latest edition of Kyoorius Design Awards, we are delighted with the quality and range of entries received. The jury – a mix of international and Indian experts – will have some tough choices to make over the next few days. Kyoorius has an Open jury policy and people from the media and industry are allowed to attend these sessions to interact with the jury and be inspired by the exceptional entries received this year.”

The Kyoorius Design Awards night will be the culmination of Kyoorius Designyatra and will be held on October 1, 2016 at the Fairmont Hotel, Jaipur, India. The Awards night will have a gathering of over 1,100 people from the marketing and communication industry.