Judges

Dom Bartolo

21-19

Dom is an international designer director and co-founder of 21-19, a design and communications agency, based in Melbourne. He has been the creative driving force behind many television brands
both in Europe and Australia, successfully branding channels including MTV Brand New, Disney XD and The Comedy Channel. His motion graphic films have found audiences in European contemporary art galleries including the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Dom is a founding member of Australian INfront.

Lucy Feagins

The Design Files

Lucy is a Melbourne-based stylist, writer and design blogger. Her blog, The Design Files, was launched in early 2008, and today attracts a readership of over 400,000 pageviews a month from
around the globe. Lucy has contributed to various Australian design and lifestyle publications including The Age Melbourne Magazine, Inside Out, Design Quarterly and Artichoke Magazine.

Paul Fuog

Coöp

Paul has over 12 years of hands on experience in the design industry. Initially commencing his career in fine arts exploring both drawing and sculpting, Paul was introduced to the practise of
graphic art. Motivated by the optimistic nature of design Paul crossed the divide from art to commerce in 1998. Since, he has remained committed to approaching commercial projects with artistic energies. Paul has been running Melbourne design studio Coöp since 2004.

Simon Mundy

PeptoLab

Simon is director of PeptoLab, a web design and digital application studio, whose primary focus is the design, production and release of websites for some of Australia’s leading brands. Projects include the redesign of ANZ.com, PENFOLDS wines, LastMinute.com.au, Domain and C31. Simon is also president for the Victorian Chapter of AGDA.

Brett Phillips

3 Deep Design

Over the past 15 years, Brett has been recognised with over 70 national and international awards of excellence including a coveted Cannes Lion, and has sat on the State and National Councils of AGDA. He currently chairs the advisory board of luxury fashion house MATERIALBYPRODUCT and the curatorial board of The Ideas Institute.

David Surman

ACMI/Pachinko Pictures

David Surman is an artist and designer from the UK, now based in Melbourne. He is co-director of the creative studio Pachinko Pictures, creating mobile games, illustration and animation. In his other life he is curator of videogames at ACMI, where he’s developing a new exhibtion that he can’t wait to be able to talk about.

Fiona Sweet

Sweet Creative

Staying true to her original vision of a small studio with big ideas, Fiona has created a niche for Sweet Creative that has not only set her apart, but made the creative world sit up and take notice. With highly creative design solutions and smart strategic branding, Sweet is proud to be a part of the arts world, and has attracted a client base eager to take risks.