President of the Jury:
Ylva Tiveus (Director of DG COMM)
Ylva Tiveus was born in Sweden and works as a Director for Multimedia Communication in the European Commission. She is a key player in deciding how the European Union should best communicate with citizens and media. She manages EU activities for television, audiovisual products, the internet, new social media and much more – including the poster for Europe Day. Ylva has worked in communications all her life and has a wide experience in numerous fields, including museums, health and safety at work and environmental policy.
Other members of the jury:
Joanna Górska
Joanna Górska was born in Poland in 1976 and is a graphic designer. She studied at the Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts and then received a grant to continue her studies at ESAG in Paris. In 2002, together with Jerzy Skakun, she founded a studio named Homework. The originality and quality of her work has brought her many distinctions at the poster Biennial in Warsaw and at the Mexico International Poster Biennial. Among this new generation of Polish graphic designers, Joanna Górska has found her place through the powerful evocations of her images.
Françoise Schein
Françoise Schein is an artist and was born in Brussels in 1953. She graduated with a magna cum laude in architecture and urban design from the Brussels School of Visual Arts and Architecture. She also received an MA in Urban Design at Columbia University in New York in 1979. Françoise Schein’s specialties are fine arts, urban art, socially engaged art, human rights art, pedagogy, art education and sculptures with multimedia. She is the founder of the "Association Inscrire”.
Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is the Executive Director of the first pan-European think-tank, the European Council on Foreign Relations. Launched in late 2007 with backing from the Soros Foundations Network, Fride, the Communitas Foundation, Sigrid Rausing and the UniCredit Group, ECFR is a pan-European initiative for debate, research and advocacy. Its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of a coherent, effective and value-based European foreign policy.
His books "Why Europe will run the 21st Century" (2005) and "What does China think?" (2008) have been translated into 17 languages.
Vangelis LIAKOS
A graphic designer, Vangelis Liakos was born in 1976 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Graphic Design/Typography at Plymouth University in England and continued his studies with an MA in Ιmage and Communication at Goldsmiths University, London. In the year 2000, he co-founded the Beetroot design group. Their work spans all fields: editorials, visual identity, digital video & motion graphics, corporate identity. Beetroot has won several of the four European design awards (Agency of the year in 2007 and 2008), two EPICA awards (2004 and 2008) and four Red Dot awards (2009).
Lizá Ramalho
Born in Troyes in France in 1971 Lizá Ramalho graduated in Communication Design from the faculty of fine arts at Oporto University in Portugal and holds a Master’s degree in Design Research from Barcelona University in Spain. She currently works at R2 Design in Porto, which she co-founded with Artur Rebelo in 1995. She has contributed to a number of international exhibitions abroad and her projects are published in books and magazines. She has been awarded prestigious prizes in acknowledgement of her work. She is also a member of AGI (Aliance Graphique Internationale) and teaches design and multimedia at Coimbra University.
http://www.r2design.pt/r2design/
Ján Čtvrtník
Ján Čtvrtník is a creative young designer from the Czech Republic with an artistic background and hand drawing skills. He is a freelance designer for IKEA as well as for other companies and studios, and is a specialist in industrial design, interior design and packaging. He has been a juror for several other artistic competitions.
http://www.coroflot.com/naj
www.tactoo.com/jan
Maria Magdalena Kurpik
Born in Warsaw 1956, Maria Magdalena Kurpik is a graduate of Warsaw University and of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and completed postgraduate studies in the field of paper conservation. She has been working on a PhD on “Wojciech Zamecznik and Polish photographic posters” since 2005.
Between 1985 and 1987 she worked as the Vice-Director of the book conservation department at the national library in Warsaw. From 1986 to1996 she was Head of the poster conservation department at the Poster Museum at Wilanów and in 1996, she became Director and Curator.
She is the author of many articles and essays in the field of paper conservation and graphic design as well as poster art and history in specialist magazines, books and exhibition catalogues.
Maria Kurpik has been a lecturer at the Warsaw College of Photographic Art since 2003. In 2006, she also started teaching at the European Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the field of history of poster and contemporary graphic design.
Zdeno Kolesár
Zdeno Kolesár, a Slovakian expert in the history of design, was born in Bratislava in 1960. He studied art history at the philosophical faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. He is a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and University of Applied Arts in Prague. He published “Chapters of the Design History“ (four editions in Bratislava and Prague, 1998-2009) and “Chapters of the Graphic Design History“ (Bratislava, 2006). He was curator of the Poster Triennial in Trnava in 2000 and 2009.
