Five top creative directors from Asia to sit on this year’s LIA Print, Poster + Billboard Jury

Asia is very well represented on this year’s London International Awards Print, Poster and Billboard Jury with half the jurors coming from the region.

Joji Jacob, Group Executive Creative Director, DDB Group Singapore (pictured top), Yang Yeo, JWT China Chairman & North Asia ECD, JWT (pictured below), David Guerrero, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, BBDO Guerrero/Proximity, Manila, Santosh Padhi, Co-Founder/Chief Creative Officer, Taproot India, Mumbai and Marcus Rebeschini, Chief Creative Officer Asia, Y&R, Singapore will all convene for the judging at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas in October this year.

LIA President Barbara Levy said: “Asia is an important market as we find that there is such a lot of great talent and excellent work from there.  So we are very pleased to have some of these talented creative people on our jury because they bring with them the cultural insight and perspective that make jury discussions so much richer.”

They will be joined by Joe Alexander, Chief Creative Officer, The Martin Agency, Richmond, Jimmy Blom, Executive Creative Director, UncleGrey, Copenhagen, Rob Feakins, President/Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Kaplan Thaler, New York, and Richard Denney, Executive Creative Director, DLKWLOWE, London.

This year’s Print, Poster and Billboard Jury President is Dörte Spengler-Ahrens (left), Executive Creative Director at Jung von Matt/Elbe, Hamburg.

On chairing the 2014 LIA Print, Poster and Billboard Jury, Dörte said, “I am very honored to be president of the LIA Print/Poster/Billboard Jury. LIA is one of the most respected international awards, which sets the creative benchmark for the work from all over the world. To judge with the other LIA jurors is an extraordinary experience, not only because some of the most renowned creatives come together, exchanging opinions and sharing insights but also because it is a lot of fun. The Print/Poster/Billboard jury is of importance more than ever, because it will give some direction to how these categories have to develop to be of relevant importance in the digital age. Innovative media ideas meet striking simple ideas meet high end creative excellence that only PPB can show.

The Call for entries for LIA is now open. See details here.