Design
We're excited to announce that this year, Design will have its own dedicated space in our Calendar of Events! Design, like Advertising, Short Film and Music Video sections, now has it's own slot in our annual schedule.
This change allows us to concentrate on nurturing and celebrating the amazing craft and talent in this specialist industry, and also empowers us to focus more intently on the Design community and elevate it's significance in these times of change.
This year we’ve also expanded the number of jurors from 6 to 10, and judging will be held in Brighton over 2 days, 5th & 6th November. Stay tuned for exciting updates ahead!
Shortlists for 2025 are now announced
Winners announced 21 November
Jury Chair for 2025 - Nicki Field
Joint MD at Jelly, Nicki is a constant driving force behind the studio’s strategic creative evolution and is shaping it into a specialist partner that brands trust when they’re ready to take a bold visual leap. Nicki has helped shape Jelly (and the wider TBM Group) into an innovative, employee-owned business with studios in London, New York, and Barcelona.
In 2024, Jelly was named one of If You Could’s Top Creative Companies, and Nicki has previously served as a juror across Design, Art Direction and Craft categories for Creative Review, Creative Circle, The Shark Awards and D&AD. With 20 years of experience championing artists and creatives with strong points of view and distinct aesthetics, she’s committed to demystifying creative careers, elevating craft, and building inclusive pathways into the industry.
She leads the team with the belief that when nurtured right, creativity shifts culture and opens doors - a mindset that led her to launch Jelly’s talent programme, Futures, alongside Jelly’s numerous other cultural programmes.
"The Shark Awards have such a rich history of celebrating the best of the best when it comes to film and advertising and I’m thrilled to be part of a cohort celebrating design. Anyone familiar with Kinsale will know there’s nothing quite like it and the sense of creative community it nurtures, I’m excited to build on the newer breakout festival in my second home of Brighton.
Above all else, excellent design is brilliant craft: Truly considered in all aspects of strategy, execution and application. Brand has become everything in commercial effectiveness and that simply can’t exist without design as its core. I can’t wait to get back in the room along with my highly expert co-jurors: Kasia Ozmin Founder/CD Together We Create, Paul Silcox ECD Futurebrand and Senior Creative Producer Jacqui Dixon plus many more tbc. And as the Sharks keeps reminding me, the Shark Head is one of the best looking awards trophies going!"
2025 Design Judges
Our fabulous judges booked for the forthcoming Shark Design Awards in Brighton.
