Award Ceremony View the Winners Meet the Jurors

We'de like to thank everyone that came out to Meet the Jurors.

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The crisp fall air. The topography of vintage brickwork. The ripeness of the summer market. The spring grass between your toes. The richness embedded in the sense of touch is easily overshadowed by the other senses—but its resolute intensity, its very physicality, makes it a potent force. A sense of the city that cannot be ignored. 

To honor the sense of touch, we held the event Meet the Jurors, where you could get up close and personal with A5's esteemed critics of creativity, Stanley Hainsworth, Pum Lefebure, and Alan Leusink. Each juror gave brief presentations of their own work and life of creativity, but answered the burning questions about what really appeals to them as a juror of a design competition. They were so close, you could reach out and touch them. 

Our A5 Jurors

Stanley Hainsworth / Tether

Stanley Hainsworth grew up in Western Kentucky and credits his small town background with an appreciation for multiple retail options which influences his design. As a creative director at Nike he worked on everything from hangtags to annual reports to the Olympics. While global creative director for the Lego Company in Denmark he overhauled the Lego brand from top to bottom including packaging, stores and the web. At Starbucks Coffee Company, Stanley’s creative influence extended to the look of new products, packaging systems, seasonal promotions, brand campaigns, advertising and collateral materials.

Today, Stanley is the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Tether and works with consumer product, entertainment and experience brands to create memorable solutions. As well, Tether designs and sells consumer products. A national board member of AIGA, Stanley has been widely recognized including awards by ID Magazine, Communication Arts, The Library of Congress, Graphis, Type Directors Club, Retail Interiors and MAPIC.

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Pum Lefebure / Design Army

Pum Lefebure is a co-founder and creative director at Design Army in Washington, DC. Not only does she oversee all creative coming through the firm’s doors, she’s responsible for setting the creative vision behind each high-profile campaign. Pum keeps the design team challenged by pushing and inspiring them to do creatively original work. As a result there are countless award-winning projects born inside Design Army’s studio every day.

Pum has guided the design and development of many award-winning projects for an array of clients, including The Washington Ballet, Chronicle Books, The Ritz-Carlton Company, The Smithsonian Institution, Signature Theatre, and the University of Virginia. Her guidance hasn’t gone unrecognized: Since opening in fall of 2003, Design Army’s work has been featured in Communication Arts, Graphis, HOW, Print, STEP, Novum, Coupe and Art4D. Additionally, the work has garnered a multitude of industry awards from the AIGA 365, Black Book AR100, American Advertising Federation, Type Directors Club, The Art Directors Club of New York, The Mohawk Show, and The One Show.

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Alan Leusink / Duffy & Partners

Alan first joined Duffy in 1993 and his work has spanned the creation of new brands, brand and corporate identity and package design for clients such as Coca-Cola, FAO Schwarz, Mona Lisa Hotels, Jim Beam Brands, Yakima, American Eagle Outfitters, TIME Inc., Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve, Molson, and Miller Brewing. He left Duffy & Partners to join Genevieve Gorder’s design team on the Home and Garden Network television series Town Haul in 2004. Alan rejoined Duffy & Partners in 2005. His work has been recognized for excellence by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club and the 100 Show and appeared in publications such as Graphis, ID, Communication Arts, HOW, and Print. Alan graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design and he has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York.