SEGD (the Society for Experiential Graphic Design), a multidisciplinary global community of professionals, has revealed the multi-disciplinary jury for this year’s SEGD Global Design Awards. This annual competition celebrates designers whose work best connects people to place, exemplifying SEGD’s mission to “Educate, Connect and Inspire.”
It is currently accepting entries for this year, with the initial deadline of Monday 31 January 2022. After this date, each submission will be subject to a $100 project late fee per entry.
The SEGD Global Design Awards represents the best in experiential graphic design and covers a variety of topics, disciplines, and verticals in the categories of Digital Experience Content, Exhibition, Interactive Experience, Placemaking & Identity, Strategy, Research, Planning, and Wayfinding.
An expert jury
This year, Phillip R. Tiongson, the Founder and CEO of Potion, an interactive design agency that creates transformative experiences with design and technology will chair the jury. He is a longstanding SEGD member and 2021 SEGD GDA jury member, who brings a wealth of experience to the role, including having trained under John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab.
“Every year, the SEGD Global Design Awards recalibrate the standards of excellence for our industry,” says Tiongson. “The winning projects exemplify how great design can powerfully serve communities with lasting impact.”
He will be joined by six globally recognised designers in the task of choosing the SEGD Global Design Award winners this March:
- Bosco Hernandez, Design Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Hernández is a previous Global Design Award recipient and incoming SEGD Board Member. His work has been exhibited around the world including at PS1 MoMA, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and The International Poster and Graphic Design Festival at Chaumont.
- Carlea Stremme, Student at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Stremme has a B.F.A in Graphic and Interactive Design with a minor in Mathematics and is an animator and designer, as well as a 2021 SEGD GDA Student Winner.
- Eddie Opara, Partner, Pentagram. Opara is a multi-faceted internationally recognized award winning designer and educator whose work encompasses strategy, design and technology.
- Genell Hoechstetter, Senior Creative Director, Meow Wolf. Hoechstetter previously worked with Walt Disney Imagineering, using her filmmaking, performing arts, VFX and SFX skills to create impactful immersive experiences.
- Richard The, Co-Founder of the transdisciplinary design studio TheGreenEyl. The was the 2021 SEGD GDA Best of Show winner and is a designer, artist, educator, producing work that ranges from graphic design to installations to user interfaces
- Robin Perkins, Co-Founder Selbert Perkins Design, SEGD Fellow. Perkins, who is internationally recognised for design excellence, has developed a visionary approach to art, design and communications in the built environment as well as brand strategy development and corporate communications systems.
- Jason Bruges, Founder & Director, Jason Bruges Studio. Bruges is the founder of Jason Bruges Studio and a multi-disciplinary artist and designer. His work blends architecture with interaction design using mixed media to explore spectacle, time-based interventions and dynamic spacial experience.
- Jennifer Kapral, Director of Education & Outreach, Asia Society Texas. Kapral is a professional educator and project manager leading the development of an education exhibition and online learning platform that immerses visitors in the stories of Asian Americans and Asian art, culture and global issues.
Enter now
“The winners of the SEGD Global Design Awards represent the most thoughtful and innovative projects made in the midst of the pandemic’s disruption of the experience of physical spaces,” adds Tiongson. “The awards provide a moment for us to come together to celebrate, not only what we have learned, but also how we are building and advancing our community through design.”
Winners of this prestigious award will benefit from having their project promoted widely, including online, in the press, across social media and feature stories. Successful projects are also published in the SEGD Awards Annual and become benchmarked against and referenced by members, prospective clients, and students across the globe.
SEGD Awards are the #1 most visited content on the organisation’s website, with more than 100k page views each year. To enter, please click here.
Last year, 40 projects were celebrated in the SEGD Global Design Awards 2021, ranging from work highlighting the role of design in addressing themes of equity, accessibility, language and climate change, to interactive explorations of the Arctic and Indigenous art, to strategic wayfinding manuals. “Found in Translation” from Studio TheGreenEyl was awarded Best of Show.
