LIA Announces Brian Collins as 2015 Design and Package Design Jury President and Reveals the Jury

(London and New York, 26th May 2015) – Brian Collins, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Collins, has been named as the Design and Package Design Jury President for the 2015 London International Awards (LIA).

The Design and Package Design Jury will consist of a host of the world’s finest creative minds, including: Rick Barrack, Tim Greenhalgh, Pum Lefebure, Rebeca Méndez, Christian Mommertz, Joanina Pastoll and Ronnie Wu.

Within the Design & Package Design medium will lie the ‘Verbal Identity’ category, one of two categories making their debut this year. The introduction of the ‘Verbal Identity’ category is a reaction from LIA to the ‘What About Naming?’ campaign launched by New York-based brand agency CBX. Also, new to the 2015 Design competition is the ‘Product Development’ category.

Collins comments: “I’m beyond happy to join such a distinguished list of judges this year – and across so many established, new and emerging disciplines. I’m also beyond happy that the thoughtful people at the London International Awards had a few more highballs before it came time to select this year’s Design Chair. How nice for me!”

Collins is Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Collins, a company dedicated to designing experiences and communications that shape companies and people for the better.

His creative work has been featured in The New York Times, Creativity, Fortune, Graphis, NBC News, ABC News and Fast Company, which named him one of five American Masters of Design. Business Week named his work on the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Times Square as a design “Wonder of the World.”

Collins speaks globally on design and innovation and he was the first graphic designer invited to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is also a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council and, in 2011, he was selected by the AIGA to represent the United States at Beijing Design Week.

Collins is Vice President of The Art Directors Club and is a director of Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter. He has been a professor in the Graduate Program of the School of Visual Arts in New York since 2001.

2015 Design & Package Design Jury:

• Brian Collins (Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder, Collins, New York) – Jury President
• Rick Barrack (Chief Creative Officer, CBX, New York)
• Tim Greenhalgh (Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, FITCH, London)
• Pum Lefebure (Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Design Army, Washington D.C.)
• Rebeca Méndez (Artist & Designer, Rebeca Méndez Studio, Los Angeles)
• Christian Mommertz (Chief Creative Officer, Geometry Global, Berlin)
• Joanina Pastoll (Executive Creative Director, Lowe Cross Colours, Johannesburg)
• Ronnie Wu (Group Creative Director, Y&R Beijing, Beijing)

The LIA 2015 Entry System is now accepting entries through August. Judging will take place from 1st October to 10th October. The shortlists will be announced as each judging session concludes, with winners being announced 10th November. For more information on submissions and eligibility please visit http://www.liaawards.com/enter/eligibility/

To find out more about LIA Awards, visit http://www.liaawards.com/

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London International Awards (LIA) is a global Festival honoring creativity and new ideas in Advertising, Production, Digital, Design, Music & Sound and Technology. The Awards, founded in 1986 by President, Barbara Levy, began by honoring advertising in the realms of Cinema, Television, Print and Radio worldwide, evolving since its inception into 15 unique media types. It was the first truly international advertising awards of its kind to acknowledge all media and methods from all over the world to be judged by a diverse global jury. Every member on each Jury Panel, including the Jury President, judge all entries except their own work, in their respective media. Each jury has the discretion to award a Grand LIA within the media they are judging.