4 years in the past we launched our first ever panel of business professionals to assist us decide the 99awards. We’ve been privileged to have senior creatives from Adobe and Squarespace, social media tastemakers and trailblazers, experimenters and educators—even design activists weighing in on the crème de la crème of platform work. Past sorting via the unimaginable designs they’re tasked with analyzing, introducing them to you is one in all our favourite elements of this epic marketing campaign.
We could also be biased, however our 2022 jury is a really spectacular bunch of parents, consultant of the superior expertise unfold throughout the worldwide design business at the moment. In every of their movies, they’ll take you thru their very own inventive journeys and share their greatest recommendation for designers. With out additional ado, let’s meet the 2022 jury!
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The 2022 jury
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Ruben Cespedes | Digital Design
Eureka Hussin | Illustration
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Say “Salam!” to Eureka! Eureka Hussin is an illustrator and educator primarily based in Selangor, Malaysia. After acquiring her Bachelor’s and Masters in Structure, she pivoted to comply with her life’s true ardour: digital illustration and artwork. As we speak she’s a full-time freelancer, sharing a house workplace along with her architect husband and creating lovely issues every day. Impressed by all issues mom nature and astronomy, she fortunately conjures up distinctive designs throughout numerous mediums—all the time with a splash of pixie mud and magic.
You’ll be able to take residence a little bit slice of Eureka’s creativeness through her Etsy store, assist her work on Patreon or simply get misplaced in her tutorials on Instagram.
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Ruben Cespedes | Digital Design
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A very powerful factor is to get pleasure from your journey.
When you’ve ever dipped your toes into UX/UI, likelihood is you’ve come throughout Ruben Cespedes’ Youtube channel, the place he shares every little thing from fast tricks to product critiques and gold nuggets of profession recommendation. Ruben is a digital product designer who’s spent the final 16 years creating revolutionary and distinctive digital experiences for large manufacturers (hey, Crayola!) and small companies alike. However Ruben truly received his begin in company land again in 2004, the place he soaked up tons of experience round advertising and promoting.
In 2007, he taught himself find out how to code and merged his love for design and know-how and found his subsequent ardour: sharing every little thing he is aware of with designers seeking to break into the business. He at present works for Dell Applied sciences as a Principal Interactive & Visible Designer, for Adobe creating stellar instructional design content material, and for himself as a content material creator. We all know you’ll love his ideas, so sustain with him on Instagram @uiuxcreative and YouTube!
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Alyssa Nguyen | Branding
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Alyssa Nguyen’s studio bears her identify for good purpose: her private mission is to create hanging and memorable model identities for companies owned by ladies and folks of coloration. We fell in love with the entrepreneurial spirit that she proudly showcases throughout every of her neighborhood channels, and the way unafraid she is to be herself within the design business. She’s self-taught and pleased with it, and it’s the crimson thread that she weaves via all of her content material.
On her podcast, The Design Diaries, she spills the tea and hosts trustworthy conversations crammed with ideas, profession recommendation, and the struggles and experiences of being a creator. Alyssa is the ally you didn’t know you wanted, however we’re completely satisfied to share her with you because the juror for the Finest Model Design class of the 99awards.
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Gia Graham | Typography
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Lean into that factor that you simply do greatest—and what feels most true to you.
Gia Graham is a Barbados-born lettering artist and illustrator, now primarily based in Atlanta. She graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design in 1999 and instantly hit the bottom working. In her 20+ 12 months profession she’s labored for businesses of all sizes, on every little thing from company design and branding to artwork course, photograph styling and stationery. As an island lady dwelling in an city world, her work has developed over time and is recognizable by the way in which she uniquely merges opposing cultural aesthetics. Her signature designs are alive with lush florals, foliage and tons of coloration. Gia’s present focus is on bringing manufacturers and merchandise to life with lettering and illustration.
When not working with shoppers, she teaches courses as a Prime Instructor on Skillshare and shares a sneak peek behind her course of on Instagram. Step into Gia’s world over at @iamgiagraham!
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Julie Wieland | Print
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It simply actually comes right down to all the time experimenting
Julie Wieland is a multidisciplinary graphic designer from Luxembourg, dwelling and dealing in Germany. Her work revolves round defining timeless and significant visible narratives for passion-driven people and companies. Lately, Julie made the leap from being one of many go-to senior designers within the Berlin startup scene to freelancing full-time. She started sharing her greatest ideas, assets, inspiration and tutorials on her social channels… And the remainder is (viral) historical past.
What we love about Julie is that she’s not afraid to dip her toes into new design methods. The lady welcomes a problem, and he or she’ll fortunately ship them your manner so you’ll be able to construct your portfolio, too. See the world via Julie’s eyes over on Instagram and TikTok @juliewdesign.
@juliewdesign Good Boi Fonts™ — my favourite font-matchings thus far 🙏🏼😌 #fonttok #graphicdesigners #typeface ♬ Supalonely (feat. Gus Dapperton) – BENEE
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Beatrice Menis | Packaging
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If it could actually’t be defined in a sentence, it’s not easy sufficient.
Beatrice is a model & packaging designer and co-founder of Studio Kibi, an unbiased studio that counts small companies and start-ups as a part of their various consumer roster. Born in Italy and with many properties in-between, Bea is filled with world expertise, and that comes via in all of her work. Her purpose has all the time been to begin a women-run enterprise to assist entrepreneurs around the globe. And Studio Kibi is simply that: the candy, accessible spot between businesses and freelancers. Her design philosophy is all about simplicity: if it could actually’t be summed up in a sentence, it’s in all probability not fairly proper.
When not crafting the backs of packs she may be discovered enjoying along with her corgi, Mochi, and having fun with a throwback pop punk playlist on Spotify. Sustain with Bea @studiokibi and take a look at her stellar programs over on Skillshare!
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Able to be wowed?
Take me straight to the awards!
