Celebrating excellence, the strength of the Annual AADC Awards has always come from the high caliber of its national and international judging panel, plus local industry leaders for the Student Jury.
The team behind the AADC Awards are now hard at work compiling 2025's Jury members and would love the industry's help in doing so.
- Jury—we're looking for individuals, studios or agencies from across Australia and the world to judge the core categories of advertising, design, for good and craft.
- Student—we're looking for industry leaders across Adelaide to judge the Student categories of Idea and Craft.
Please email members@aadc.com.au with people and/or businesses from your Jury wish list, or to nominate someone from your business locally.
2024 Awards Jury
In 2024, over sixty industry heavyweights generously donated their time and energy to the task of viewing hundreds of entries across advertising, design, craft, for good and student.
| Name | Role | Workplace |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Katz | Founder & Chief Creatve Officer | Company Policy |
| Alex Collares | Creative Director | Ogilvy Australia |
| Annette Harcus | Creative Director | Harcus Design |
| Anshika Khullar | Illustrator | Self Employed (UK) |
| Ant Melder | Creative Partner | Coffee Cocoa Gunpowder |
| Caroline Cox | Creative Director | Base Design |
| Chad Mackenzie | CCO | WhiteGREY |
| Charlotte Berry | Copywriter & Senior Communications Strategist | Innocean |
| Chris Clausen | Head of Design | Coffee Cocoa Gunpowder |
| Dan Agostino | Head of Design - Brand Agency | THe Brand Agency |
| Danaé Gosset | Founder (Animation & Design Studio) | Pencil TV |
| Evi O | Creative Director | EVI.O |
| George Hedon | Founder | Pausefest |
| Gerard Fitzgerald | Executive Creative Director | MassiveMusic Singapore |
| Graham Read | Design Manager | Sustrans, Bristol |
| Jenny Mak | Creative Partner | DDB Sydney |
| Jimmy Muldoon | Founder & Designer | Partner Studio |
| Josh Aitken | Creative Director | McCann Sydney |
| Kevin Blackburn | Creative Director | Made By Big |
| Kirsten Twigg | Chief Pep & Creative officer | Pepi Brand House |
| Liza Enebis | Creative Director and Partner | Studio Dumbar/DEPT® |
| Lloyd Osborne | Founder and Creative Director | Osborne Shiwan |
| Marcel Moniaga | Creative Director | Dentsu Creative |
| Mark Rivett | Composer / Arranger / Musician | Doggieman Media |
| Max Harkness | Co Founder & Creative Director | Co Partnership |
| Melissa Radman | National Design Director | VML Perth |
| Michael Gie | Executive Producer | Rumble Studios Sydney |
| Michelle Mattar | Founder | Practice |
| Mihir Chanchani | Excecutive Creative Director | Ogilvy (India) |
| Mike Kennedy | Creative Director | Eddison Advertising |
| Mitch Dorf | Commercial Mixer | Formosa Group |
| Nancy Bugeja | CEO | HMGroup |
| Nancy Hartley | Founder/Creative Partner | Rumbletown Ventures/Rumble Strategic Creative |
| Nubia Navarro aka Nubikini | Graphic Designer - Lettering Artist | Nubikini Studio |
| P.G. Aditiya | Founder | Talented |
| Paul Garbett | Creative Director | Studio Garbett (sydney) |
| Peter Whiddon | Designer | Red Consultancy |
| Rachel Denti | Lead Designer | Nike |
| Ralphie Barnett | Founder | Ralphie Co |
| Regina Stroombergen | Lead Creative Tinker | Thinkerbell |
| Rosanna Di Risio | Creative Director | ERD |
| Sean Izzard | Photographer | The Pool Collective & Sean Izzard Photography |
| Simon Westlake | Co Founder/Creative Director | Biteable |
| Soomin Jung | Design Lead | Nike (USA) |
| Sophia Yeshi | Illustrator/Graphic Designer | Yeshi Designs |
| Soren Luckins | Creative Director | Buro North, Melbourne |
| Teresa Truda | Digital Director | Dig Agency |
| Timothy Hall | Copywriter | Freelance |
| Twisha Patni | Senior Designer | Buck |
| Vikki Ross | Brand, TOV and Copy Consultant | Vicki Ross Writes |
| Vishnu Srivatsav | National Creative Director | 22 feet Tribal (India) |
| Yah-Leng Yu | Creative Director | Foreign Policy |
| Ziggy Huang | Design Director | Round Studios |
2024 Student Jury
| Name | Role | Workplace |
|---|---|---|
| Annalise Menzel | Executive Producer | Darling |
| Becq Hinton | Head of Art | Super Duper |
| Cinzia Di Vito | Creative Director | The Sideways Theory |
| Corey Swaffer | Creative Director | kwpx Agency |
| Damian Hamilton | Brand Keeper & Designer | Cornershop Design |
| Kellie Campbell-Illingworth | Partner | Parallax |
| Matt Minear | Creative Director | BAD |
| Michael Gagliardi | Creative Director | Black Sheep |
| Nick Brz | Creative Director | Nation |
| Pat Parisi | Creative Director | Simple |
| Rory Kennet-lister | Creative Director | Showpony |
| Sarah Anesbury | Creative Director | The Creative Union |