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Jury
The international jury of the 6th edition of AWDA, Aiap Women in Design Award consists of nine major figures in the field of visual communication design and from all over of the world. Within it, in addition to delegates from AIAP the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design, and independent figures, the countries involved are represented thanks to ICoD, International Council of Design. For this edition, the international 'Collaborating Partners' are: AIGA San Diego Tijuana, Grafia - Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland, TDRI - Taiwan Design Research Institute. A parallel panel of five judges, prominent figures in the fields of research, teaching, and criticism will evaluate the works in the Researchers category. A scientific committee will award a Lifetime Achievement Award which may also be a Career Award for Historic Achievement.
Jury decisions taken by the majority of members are unquestionable and will be reported in a record filed with Aiap and put online on the AWDA website.
AWDA International Jury
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Laura E. Araujo Moreno
Laura E. Araujo Moreno
President & CEO, AIGA San Diego Tijuana Chapter
MexicoWith 15+ years experience in Binational Affairs and Community Engagement; with 35+ years experience in Project Management, Design and Strategic Communication.
Currently member of the WildCoast Board of Directors; Balboa Park Cultural Partnership Board of Advisors; San Diego Design Trek Co-Driver and Tijuana Design Week Board of Advisors.
Additional experiences: Chief Intl Affairs Officer, WDC2024; Designer in Residence, UCSD Design Lab; Creative Director, Eikons Design, and Graphic Design Faculty, Universidad Iberoamericana, Tijuana.
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he San Diego Tijuana chapter of AIGA, the professional organization for design, has been a dynamic contributor to the local creative community since 1987. The chapter is part of the national network founded in 1914 in New York City as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, which has since changed its name to “AIGA, the professional association for design” in 2005.
HOW and Print magazines have cited AIGA San Diego Tijuana as “one of the hottest communities for design in the nation.” Our local events provide educational, career enhancement and social opportunities for professional designers, educators, students and design enthusiasts in various fields including graphic design, UX design, photography, illustration, web development and more. sandiego.aiga.org
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Nina Ay
Nina Ay
Vice President, Taiwan Design Research Institute
TaiwanNina Ay is the Vice President of the Taiwan Design Research Institute, specializing in design innovation, public service transformation, wayfinding, and public pictogram systems. Since 2020, she has led the award-winning “Design Movement on Campus” initiative, reshaping educational spaces across Taiwan through design thinking. She has also driven public innovation projects spanning healthcare, transportation, tourism, and urban aesthetics, and oversees major design platforms including the Taiwan Design Expo. She continues advances Taiwan’s cultural and creative industries through cross-disciplinary collaboration and design-driven innovation.
facebook.com/nina.ay.5Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)
2020 is the founding year of the Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI), the TDRI plans to consolidate public resources from a wide range of government agencies with “the power of design,” promoting design as a central governance value and as a national defense strategy. The Institute is expected to guide the sustainable development of industries and society, which should in turn improve the living quality of the general public. It can assist the government in making national design policy and increasing governance efficiency. In addition, through an integrated interdisciplinary approach, the Institute will introduce design-based thinking into government administration, drive talent cultivation in the private sector, and build businesses that lead the design industry. tdri.org.tw
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Federica Fragapane
Federica Fragapane
Information designer
ItalyShe is an independent information designer who has created data visualisation projects for the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Publications Office of the European Union, the BBC, Scientific American, Google, Triennale Milano, and La Lettura of Corriere della Sera. In 2023, three of her data visualisations became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Malte Martin
Malte Martin
Designer and visual artist / AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale
FranceBorn in Berlin, he lives and works in Paris and Marseille. As a designer and visual artist, he runs a graphic design studio specialising in visual identity, poster design, and site-specific typographic work for cultural institutions, local authorities, and public bodies, with a particular focus on design in urban spaces. He acquired his early experience in France as part of the Grapus collective. At the same time, he founded his experimental collective, Agrafmobile, as a mobile visual theatre to explore urban spaces and everyday environments.
He is a member of the AGI, was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Research at Art and Design Colleges within the Ministry of Culture and Communication, and of the Scientific Advisory Board of Le Signe, the National Centre for Graphic Design. He was also involved in establishing the Graphic Design Department at the École supérieure d’art visuel in Morocco.
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Katja Merisalo
Katja Merisalo
AD & Graphic designer / Grafia - Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland
FinlandShe is a Finnish art director and graphic designer working at Days Agency, a Helsinki-based design studio that she started with her colleague ten years ago. Katja focuses especially on projects where she can use her expertise to benefit the environment, the planet and people. Her and her studio’s practice and philosophy can be summed up in one idea: “making better days.” Alongside her design work, Katja also teaches, lectures, and mentors other designers.
@katjamerisalo
daysagency.fi/Grafia - Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland
Grafia is an association for visual communication designers which aims to promote knowledge and understanding of the industry and to safeguard the professional, legal and financial interests of its members. The association was founded in 1933. Grafia’s members are communication and design professionals.
The organisation has over 1,300 members and a nine-member board. Grafia’s member activities are largely funded through Kopiosto’s copying licence remunerations. Grafia uses the funds to provide grants, information, training, copyright advice and lawyers services. grafia.fi
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Bianca Sangalli Moretti
Bianca Sangalli Moretti
Illustrator, art director / AWDA Aiap Women in Design Award team
ItalyIllustrator, art director, and co-founder of Nora Studio. She works across illustration, animation, and visual design, developing projects for editorial, cultural, and commercial contexts. Since its early beginnings, she has been part of AWDA – Aiap Women in Design, mainly focusing on international relations. Alongside her professional practice, she teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate design courses and leads workshops in collaboration with schools, associations, and festivals.
biancasangallimoretti.com
@biancaspino
LinkedIn
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Simonetta Scala
Simonetta Scala
Graphic designer / AIAP Italian Association of Visual Communication Design
ItalyGraphic designer, she worked with various studios and publishing houses before founding Lizart comunicazione visiva in 2001, specialising primarily in editorial design and corporate publishing. Her work has been selected for several editions of the AWDA. She has taught and, alongside commissioned work, has always pursued personal projects and self-published works. A professional member of AIAP since 2008, she is a member of the Board of Arbitrators (2025–2028).
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Melike Taşcıoğlu Vaughan
Melike Taşcıoğlu Vaughan
Professor, President of International Council of Design (ICoD)
TurkeyShe is a designer, artist and academic and lives in Eskişehir, Turkey, where she teaches Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate degree courses at Anadolu University. She has published two books on design, and has held exhibitions and workshops internationally. She is also a book designer working primarily with international independent publishers focused on social justice issues, and is the current President of the International Council of Design (ICoD).
@meliketascioglu
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meliketascioglu.com
theicod.org
International Council of Design (ICoD)
Founded in 1963 as Icograda – the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, the International Council of Design (ICoD) is an international non-governmental organisation – a global network of independent Member organisations that shares common issues, commitments and standards. Members create a unified voice for the global design community and drive a high level dialogue on the leading role design plays in society, culture and the economy. With a membership of more than 120 organisations in 50 countries and regions globally, ICoD is the world’s largest representative of professional designer entities.
The Council’s mission is to increase the recognition of the value of design, to elevate the global standards of all design disciplines, and to improve the situation of individual designers everywhere. theicod.org
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Teal Triggs
Teal Triggs
Professor of Graphic Design
Great BritainShe is Professor of Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art, London. As an educator and researcher, she publishes on feminism, intercultural communication, and self-publishing. Books include Fanzines, The Typographic Experiment and The Graphic Design Reader. Triggs is co-Editor of Design Issues and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). She is a founder member of the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU), whose intent since 1994 has been to raise awareness about women working in visual communication and design education.
@tealtriggs
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AWDA Jury / Research
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Sara Fortunati
Sara Fortunati
Direttrice del Circolo del Design di Torino, Head of Communication School IED Milano
ItalyShe has been working for 20 years in the development and management of cultural projects related to design and is currently Director of the Circolo del Design in Turin and Head of the Communication School at IED in Milan.
Since 2021, she has been Vice-President of Mauto – the National Automobile Museum.
She founded and co-directed the international fair dedicated to independent and research-based design, ‘Operae, Independent Design Fair’, for seven editions, and was Head of Communications for Torino 2008 World Design Capital.
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Laura Moretti
Laura Moretti
AWDA Curator
ItalyDesigner and creative director of the studio that bears her name, she develops visual communication projects with an approach focused on experimenting with languages and generating creative processes capable of bringing about new forms of change. Since 2005, she has taught communication design and graphic design. She currently teaches at Istituto Europeo di Design_IED Florence, where she leads courses dedicated to editorial design and contemporary visual culture.
She curates and organises exhibitions, workshops and cultural initiatives related to graphic design, with particular attention to traditional printing techniques and manual printing. Co-curator of Design Pinetum, a programme dedicated to discovering young talents, she regularly collaborates with scientific committees, interdisciplinary committees and juries focused on design for visual communication.
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Valeria Piras
Valeria Piras
Technologist and research fellow
ItalyShe is a technologist and research fellow at the Institute for Educational Technology of the National Research Council (CNR) and a contract professor in videographics at the Department of Architecture and Design of the University of Genoa, where she earned an international PhD in Design. She holds a master's degree in Gender Studies and Policies and conducts seminars and workshops on speculative design. Her research lies at the intersection of design, education, feminist studies, and speculative practices. She is a member of the GenQ association, where she focuses on sex and relationship education.
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Vera Sacchetti
Vera Sacchetti
Design critic, curator
PortugalBorn in Lisbon, she is a Basel-based design critic, curator, and educator. She is the co-founder of Fazer, a new design magazine in Portugal; and co-initiator of the Design and Democracy platform, which maps the intersections and overlaps between design and democratic systems and practices. Sacchetti is lecturer in Design Theory at HSLU Design Film Kunst and a tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven. Since 2020, she is a member of the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.
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Carlo Vinti
Carlo Vinti
Design historian
ItalyHe is Associate Professor at the University of Camerino (School of Architecture and Design). A design historian, he has coordinated a number research projects on corporate heritage and has contributed through his scholarship to the reconstruction and dissemination of the history of Italian graphic design. Since 2025, he has co-edited — together with Rosa Chiesa and Pier Paolo Peruccio — the journal AIS/Design. Storia e Ricerche. His recent publications include La grafica italiana del ’900 (Giunti, 2024) and, with Stefano Faoro, Electa editore. Dal 1945 ottant’anni di grafica e cultura visiva (Electa, 2025).
unicam.academia.edu/CarloVinti
Comitato scientifico AWDA
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Cinzia Ferrara
Cinzia Ferrara
AWDA Curator
ItalyShe is architect, graphic designer, and Associate professor at Department of Architecture in the University of Palermo, where she is researcher in the field of visual communication. Actually, she is Coordinator Delegate for the Visual Communication of the Department of Architecture. She is Past President of AIAP. Besides her design work, she writes on visual communication, teaches and holds lectures at international conferences and several Italian universities and design schools.
She has written numerous essays and articles published in national and international magazines. She is the supervisor as well as organizer of conferences, exhibitions and workshops. She is also a member of editorial committees, observatories and European projects. She lives and works in Sicily.
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Francesco E. Guida
Francesco E. Guida
President of AIAP Italian Association of visual communication design
ItalyAssociate professor at the Department of Design and faculty member at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano. He holds a PhD in Design and Technologies for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage and has been working in the field of visual communication since the early 1990s. Former editor of the journal “AIS/Design. Storia e Ricerche” (Honorable Mention at the 27th edition of the Compasso d’Oro, 2022, for the issue “Social Design. Design and the ‘Common Good’”), he’s on the editorial board of “PAD. Pages on Arts and Design.” President of AIAP (2025–2028).
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Enrico Morteo
Enrico Morteo
Design critic and historian
ItalyArchitect, he has contributed to Domus, Abitare, Interni, Lotus, and Rassegna.
Author: Grande Atlante del Design (Electa), Mario Bellini (Phaidon), Nelle Case. Milan Interiors 1928/1978 (Hoepli). He has curated exhibitions and catalogs: Olivetti: A Beautiful Society; Compasso d’Oro. Unicità d’Italia; Arte Programmata; Sottsass: Olivetti Synthesis; 100 vasi di design italiano; Roberto Sambonet. The Theory of Form; Io sono un architetto. Ettore Sottsass.
He has collaborated with Utet, Garzanti, and Treccani.
He was a professor at the IUAV in Venice.
Curator of the Historical Collection of the Compasso d'Oro 2010/14.
Author and host for RAI Radio3.
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Elizabeth Resnick
Elizabeth Resnick
Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
United StatesShe is Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and a distinguished design educator, writer, and curator. She has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions, including the current traveling exhibition Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination. Her recent publications include Women Graphic Designers, Bloomsbury (2025), The Social Design Reader, Bloomsbury (2019), and Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury (2016). In 2025 she was awarded the AIGA Design Medal in recognition for her decades-long career as an educator, curator, and author.
massart.edu/directory/faculty-staff/elizabeth-resnick/
womensrightsarehumanrights.org/
@professorelizabethresnick
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The Juries of the past editions
2023
John L. Walters
Solace Emefa Adzei
Cinzia Ferrara
Fabiana Ielacqua
LaTigre
Jonas Liugaila
Stina Löfgren
Susana Machicao
Zahra Pashaei
Amanda Schutz
Zeynep Tonguç
Jury / Research
Marta Bernstein
Dario Carta
Benedetta Crippa
Luciana Gunetti
Laura Moretti
Jonathan Pierini
Daniela Piscitelli
AWDA Scientific Committee
Maddalena Dalla Mura
Carla Palladino
Mario Piazza
Marco Sammicheli
Marco Tortoioli Ricci
2019
Nilam
P Moeliono IDN
Laura
Moretti ITA
Justus
Oehler DEU
Alice
Rawsthorn GBR
Maria
Sætre NOR
Marco
Tortoioli Ricci ITA
Jury / Research
Gianluca
Camillini ITA
Cinzia
Ferrara ITA
Melania
Gazzotti ITA
Francesco
E. Guida ITA
Raimonda
Riccini ITA
2017
Reza
Abedini IRN
Nikki
Gonnissen NLD
David
Grossman ISR
Jianping
He CHN
Carla
Palladino ITA
Anty
Pansera ITA
Daniela
Piscitelli ITA
Mandar
Rane IND
2015
Majid
Abbasi IRN
Iva
Babaja HRV
Yeşim
Demir TUR
Cinzia
Ferrara ITA
Laura
Moretti ITA
2012
