Jury 2025

Freeman Lau

Founder, KL&K Creative Strategics, Hong Kong

Umang Hutheesing

President, Hutheesing Design Company

Dilip Chhabria

Automotive Designer

Adil Jal Darukhanawala

Founder & Chief Editor, Fast Bikes India

Sirish Chandran

Founder & Publisher, Project GTO

Pradyumna Vyas

President-Elect, World Design Organisation

Sonal Dabral

Award-winning | Creative Consultant | Screenwriter | Film Director

Sanjeev Prashar

Professor at IIM Raipur

Kelley Cheng

Founder/Creative Director of The Press Room & Studio SML, Singapore

Lolita Dutta

Dean, World University of design, WUD

Mandar Shrikant Joshi

Angel Investor | Independent Director | Fund Manager | Media Producer | Theatre Actor

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder & Director, Founding Fuel Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

Harsha Paruchuri

Director at Pragati Offset Pvt. Limited

Deepak John Mathew

Professor at IIT Hyderabad

Bhaskar Bhatt

Dean, School of Design UPES Dehradun

Dr Sudhir Mehta

Chairman and Managing Director, Pinnacle Industries Ltd

Dr. Ranjana Dani

Senior Faculty, MIT-ID, Pune

Dr. Tridha Gajjar

Senior Faculty, NID, Ahmedabad

Dr. Sanjeevani Ayachit

Director, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune

Payal Saluja

Costume Designer

Mahendra Patel

Mentor Professor at DY Patil International University

Gopal Meena

Vice President, Chitkara Design School

Dhimant Panchal

Senior Faculty, MIT Institute of Design

Ankush Anand

Professor, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra

B K Chakravarthy

Founding Dean, School of Design Innovation, Mahindra University

Dr. Ashok Mondal

Director of NID

Dhiraj Kumar

Director – Academics, Unitedworld Institute of Design (UID)

Kieu Pham Huyen

Founder at Haki Craft

Sangita Shroff

Director & Dean, Institute of Design, Nirma University

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean, BITS Design School Mumbai

Sreekumar GV

IDC, IIT Mumbai

Manish Bhardwaj

Technical Advisor at DRDO, Ministry of Defence (MOD)

Avik Chattopadhyay

Brand Strategy, Marketing & Automotive Product Planning Expert

Anil Saini

Senior Industrial Designer

Mikko Koria

Professor of Design Innovation at Loughborough University, London

Munmun Jha

Professor at IIT Kanpur

Tarun Deep Girdher

Principal Faculty, Graphic Design at NID Ahmedabad

Vijai Singh Katiyar

Principal Designer, NID, Ahmedabad

Cagri Cankaya

Co-founder, Bravo Works

Ezgi Ezdar

Founder, Design Mesh Innovation Lab

Sudhir Sharma

Founder, IndiDesign and DesignIndia

Judging Process

India’s Best Design Awards follows a thorough and transparent judging process that evaluates each entry based on creativity, originality, functionality, sustainability, and overall design excellence. It follows a set flow to maintain consistency and fairness.

Submission Review

Designers submit their entries with detailed information about their projects, including images, descriptions, and sometimes videos.

Pre-screening

Entries are pre-screened to ensure they meet eligibility criteria and adhere to the submission guidelines.

Judging Panel

The entries are then passed on to a distinguished judging panel of design experts, educators, and industry professionals.

Evaluation Criteria

The judging panel evaluates each entry based on predetermined criteria such as creativity, originality, functionality, sustainability, and overall design excellence.

Final Selection

Winners are selected in each category, with those demonstrating exceptional qualities that align with the award’s objectives.

Announcement

Once the judging process is complete, the winners are officially announced.

IBDA is a non-competitive award, meaning every entry is evaluated on its merit. Multiple winners may be selected in each category.