2025 Marketing Awards: Design and Multicultural shortlist juries revealed

Two shortlist juries have been revealed for this year’s Marketing Awards, with the participants of the Design and Multicultural juries announced on Monday.

This year’s Design jury will be led by co-chairs Vanessa Eckstein, founder and creative director of Blok Design and Dave Watson, head of design Broken Heart Love Affair (BHLA). The Multicultural jury will be led by Jessica Borges, group vice president, business lead with Visionnaire and Whitney Zhan, co-founder of DigitalLab of Uwe.

The 103 Marketing Award winners will be revealed at a live event in Toronto this June.

The juries for Advertising, Digital, Craft, Design, Multicultural and Public Service have been announced, and the shortlist juries being announced this week.

Entries are currently being accepted for the 103rd Marketing Awards, with Feb. 7 being the final deadline. More information on categories, eligibility and entry guidelines can be found on the Marketing Awards website.

Marketing Awards Design shortlist jury

Brooke Hennessy, creative director, design, T&pm
Jenny Vivar, CD, design, freelance
Peter Ladd, creative director and co-founder, Pendo
Sam Bullis, design director, Sam Bullis Design
Stephen Tasker, creative director, designer, freelance
Meriç Karabulut, ACD, design, NFA
Melanie Hong, senior designer, Vanderbrand

Marketing Awards Multicultural shortlist jury

Mary Malott, creative consultant, freelance
Gigi Ng, account manager, Captus Advertising