Positive Posters
On posters
By designers
JUDGES
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt has worked at advertising agencies in Sydney, Singapore, Amsterdam, London and New York. His work has won numerous wanky advertising awards – including 2 Golden Lions at Cannes, and his work is included in the permanent collection at MOMA in New York. His poster for The Commission for Racial Equality was judged to be one of the most outstanding works ever to come out of Saatchi & Saatchi London. Adam thinks advertising today is profoundly boring – so he’s taken a sabbatical – he’s opened an Asian Tapas Wine & Sake Bar in Bondi. He still takes the occasional job as a ‘Part-Time-Whore-in-Satan’s-Circus’, but only if you brief him across his bar, which is made of 150 year old oak doors from China, and there’s Sapporo & Asahi on tap.
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Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle describes himself as a father, graphic designer and vegetarian. He cares about ideas, communication and collaboration, but also about the more intimate personal qualities of honesty and humility.
If you look through his website you will find entertaining, clever and likeable snippets from a man who understands the power of self-reflective mockery.He’s not afraid to have a friendly dig at the graphic design sensibility and community either, with his irreverently funny pieces like ‘This Year I Will Try Not To’ and the infamous AGDA 2006 Calendar.
His work has been recognised by D&AD, AWARD, AGDA, One Show and Cannes. It has also been featured on blogs from around the world, been used as the basis for education material in Europe and the United States and formed part of a feature article for UK magazine Creative Review. In 2009 he was named one of Indesign Magazine’s Top Ten Faces and Forces of Design.
A regular speaker and industry contributor he has spoken at AGideas and has lectured at Canberra University, Billy Blue School of Design, Griffith University and the University of Wollongong. He is an AGDA NSW councilor and also happens to be the guy who found that piece of Nutri-Grain that looked like ET, and then sold it on eBay for one thousand dollars. True story.
He currently works for the wonderful and curious folk at Interbrand, Sydney. -
Wang Xu
Wang Xu graduated from the Design Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1979. He had been working in Hong Kong as a graphic designer from 1986 and until 1995 he came back to Guangzhou and founded wx-design studio.
Wang is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale, overseas member of Tokyo TDC and professor of Hunan University.
Wang Xu has received more than 100 international design awards.
He has also judged at international competitions such as the 80th and 84th ADC Annual Awards (New York), International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno, International Competition Poster, Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont, Tokyo TDC Awards 2005, the 9th Tehran International Poster Biennial 2007, HKDA Asia Design Awards 09.
Wang has given lectures and speeches on many occasions. He has been featured in various publications, and his works has been exhibited in more than 20 overseas’ cities and collected in many museums outside the country.
Wang Xu is the curator of OCT-LOFT Creative Festival 07, OCT-LOFT Creative Festival 08, “Collection – Nakajima” exhibition in 2009, “6 ” TTF 2009 Asia Jewellery Design Invitational Exhibition in 2009. In March, 2011, he moved the “Push Pin Paradigm Exhibition” (originated by the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion) into China.
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Nitzan Hermon
NYC/ London based creative technologist, designer and art director — crafting compelling concepts and making them happen.
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Wayne Hemingway
Wayne is the co-founder of London based Hemingway Design, established in 1999. Hemingway’s work within design has crossed many mediums including graphic, architectural and fashion design. Wayne’s has done product, packaging and graphic design for international international clients like Coca Cola, McDonalds and Sony. Wayne is the Chairman of Building for Life, Chair of the South Coast Design Forum, and on the Design Council Trustee Board and the Design Council CABE Committee.
After reading his article ‘Trust Me’ in Sublime magazine, Hemingway came to our attention, sharing belief in the ethical practice of design, as a successful creator and admirer of mixed media we trust his challenging opinion is perfect for the Positive Posters judging panel.
