The Indigo Design Award promotes creativity from around the world, highlighting projects that are unique in graphic design, digital, mobile, branding, and design for social change.
Indigo Awards 2021 is the 4th Indigo Design Competition since 2018. With an international judging panel of 48 leading creatives – including Pip Jamieson, Founder of The Dots, logo and identity specialist Jeroen van Eerden, and entrepreneur and software engineer Tracy Chou – the contest honors those who aren’t afraid to push the envelope or make their voices heard. Submissions are evaluated for quality, originality, function, and relevance to each topic.
2021 INDIGO Award Winners were Announced on April 19, 2021. For more information about the award winners and jury panel of Indigo Award 2021, please visit: https://www.indigoawards.com/winners
Award Winners in the Freelancer Category:
https://www.indigoawards.com/winners?competition=4&expertise=Freelancer
Indigo Award 2021 Winner Book
https://www.indigoawards.com/books/2021
Jury Panel for INDIGO 2021 International Design Competition
https://www.indigoaward.com/pages/jury
| Juror | Job title |
| Admir Hadzic | Senior UX Engineer at Google |
| Alexander Khmelevskiy | UX Designer of Clay Global San Francisco |
| Alex Ivanov | Product Designer of IDEO |
| Andreas Panagiotopoulos | Creative Director of Uncloudy & Co. |
| Dr. Joaquim Antero Magalhães Ferreira | Professor of University of Barcelona |
| Danne Ojeda | Associate Professor of School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University Singapore |
| Arin Bhowmick | Vice President of Design at IBM |
| Chryssa Gagosi | B.A. Digital Design Pathway Leader at Vakalo Art & Design College |
| Daisuke Sasaki | Art Director of Daisuke Sasaki Studio in Tokyo |
| Daniela Varela | Creative Director of McCann Health New York |
| Daniel Coutinho | Head of 2D Animation at Buck Los Angeles |
| Dave Benton | Founder & Creative Director at Metajive |
| Eduardo Bertone | Founder of Bertone Studio |
| Emilie Liu | Art Director at Facebook |
| Erica Dorn | BBC and Netflix Co-Prodution Giri/Haji |
| Eugene Lazebny | CEO & UX/UI Designer Tapteek |
| Fabio Delton | UniCredit Social & Digital Internal Communications Coordinator |
| Flora Feng | Art Director in Baron & Baron |
| Francesco Milanesio | Executive Creative Director at Triplesense Reply |
| Hernan Puente | CEO & Founder at Indicius |
| Jack Morgan | Designer at Google and Duolingo |
| Jeremy Vickery | Senior Lighting Artist at Sony Bend Studio |
| Jeroen van Eerden | Creative Identity Specialist, worked with Google, Disney, and Adobe |
| Jon Noorlander | Executive Creative Director at Method Studios |
| Leandro Peixoto | Founder & Art Director at INFINIT, Design Lead at Versatiles, GadRing |
| Luke Li | Art Director at IKEA Creative Hub; Previously a Senior Art Director at Lego |
| Maurice Cherry | Creative Strategist at Glitch |
| Nick Smith | Lead Teacher, the U.K. at Shillington Education |
| Nijel Taylor | Design Director at Siegel + Gale |
| Timothy Achumba | Principle Designer at Microsoft |
| Toru Fuji | Senior Creative Director, ADK Tokyo |
UTRGV Award Winning Entries – Indigo Award 2021 – Ping Xu
Work Title: Year of The OX 2021 Collateral Campaign
Award: INDIGO Award – Silver in Logos 2021, Freelancer
Client: UTRGV Office of International Admissions & Student Services
Designer & Winner: Ping Xu | Award Certificate
https://www.indigoawards.com/winners/3800
https://www.behance.net/gallery/113363329/Year-of-The-OX-2021-Collateral-Campaign
Work Description:
The collateral campaign of Year of The OX 2021 was designed for the Office of International Admission & Student Services (IASS) of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley for IASS’s Lunar New Year 2021 Event. The collateral campaign includes an event logo design, a gift bag and box design, a T-shirt design, an instagram post design, and a couple of web banner designs for IASS official website and Facebook page.
Inspired by one of the Chinese traditional folk art forms, paper cut, I created a logo for the event first, and addressed the logo as a focal point of each item of the collateral campaign. The OX, in Chinese culture, has a hardworking zodiac meaning. The year of 2021 is a year of the OX. The key concept of the OX logo is （“牛”转乾坤）: Together, let’s fight the pandemic, and turn things around for a great future.
Work Title: Omnishow Logo
Award: INDIGO Award – Bronze in Logos 2021, Freelancer
Client: Omnishow Communication
Designer & Winner: Ping Xu | Award Certificate
Award Certificate: https://pxstudio.us
https://www.indigoawards.com/winners/4100
https://www.behance.net/gallery/100817617/Omnishow-Logo
Work Description:
The Omnishow logo was created for a Chinese communication firm in Liaoning province. To design the symbol mark of the corporate identity, I illustrated the silhouette of magnolia as the symbol shape from the provincial flower of Liaoning, and created a water pattern inside the petal silhouette of magnolia to imply the meaning of cultural communication. To design the wordmark for the name block of the corporate identity, I chose a typeface called “Bebas Neue,” and applied three pathfinder filters to modify the letters so that the wordmark’s typographic style can easily match the symbol mark’s illustration style. The concept of the logo is that a beautiful scene comes from diversity and cultural exchange and communications.
(繁花似锦源于水乳交融的景象).
Work Title: Seattle Noodle Logo
Award: INDIGO Award – Bronze in Logos 2021, Freelancer
Client: Grand Noodle House of Seattle
Designer & Winner: Ping Xu | Award Certificate
https://www.indigoawards.com/winners/3013
https://www.behance.net/gallery/90469015/Seattle-Noodle-Logo
Work Description:
The logo of Seattle Noodle, designed for a brand new Seattle-based Asian restaurant Grand Noodle House Seattle, was selected by LogoLounge Book Series – Volume 12. Every year LogoLounge showcases top identity designs from around the world through the LogoLounge book series, where a preeminent panel of jurors chose logos to present the best of the best. The judges for this edition included Dan Janssen, Mackey Saturday, Veronica Fuerte, Chris Do, Jonathan Rudolph, Justin Ahrens, Szende Brassai, Tamari Chabukiani, Bruno Campos and Eddie Lobanovskiy. The Jury selected among tens of thousands to be represented in LogoLounge Book 12. The book was published on January 5, 2021.
To create the symbol mark of the restaurant logo, I used wavy lines to symbolize noodle inside a bowl, and display an American symbol onto the bowl to present the meaning of Asian American food and an American restaurant in Seattle. The concept of identity means Seattle Noodle, a noodle restaurant, in the Emerald City Seattle.
To create the word mark of the restaurant logo, I designed the logotype ring through a unique typeface and pathfinder in Adobe Illustrator, and added the symbol of star anise, one of the most popular seasonings in Asian cuisine, into the ring.
