Uday Dandavate, Founder and CEO of SonicRim was invited to join a distinguished panel of jury members for this year’s International Design Excellence Award sponsored by Business Week and the IDSA.
The International Design Excellence Awards program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Entries are invited from designers, students and companies worldwide.
This year’s international jury will be chaired by the Director of Brand Strategy for Siemens AG, Ruth Soénius, IDSA.
Other members of the IDEA Awards jury are Carole Bilson, IDSA, Vice president, global design & usability, Pitney Bowes, Inc; Barbara Bloemink, IDSA, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs, The Museum of Arts and Design in New York; Hillary Blumberg, IDSA, Vice President and Design Director of Home Furnishings, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Prasad Boradkar, IDSA, Associate professor in industrial design, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe; Moira Cullen, Design director, Coca-Cola North America; Robin Edman, Chief Executive, Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID); Chris Hacker, IDSA Vice President, Global Design and Design Strategy, Johnson & Johnson; Andreas Haug, Partner, Phoenix Design, Stuttgart, Germany; Gavin Ivester, IDSA, Senior Vice President and General Manager, International Footwear at PUMA AG; Jonathon Kemnitzer, IDSA, Principal, KEM STUDIO; Franco Lodato, IDSA, Professor, University of Montreal School of Design; Sigi Moeslinger, IDSA, Partner, Antenna Design New York Inc.; Richard Sapper Professor for product design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany; Michael Schrage, Research associate, MIT Media Lab and author of the book Serious Play: Dr. Milton Tan, IDSA, Fellow of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), Singapore; and Stephen B. Wilcox, Ph.D., FIDSA, Founder and a Principal of Design Science.