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New Members Join INDEX: AWARD Jury
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Feb. 2 /INDEX/ -- In 2007, the INDEX: AWARD is presented to five winning designs in the categories Body, Home, Work, Play & Community, and each winner receives € 100.000. The winning designs are chosen by an international jury, which recently was expanded by two new members.
Hael Kobayashi, recently employed as Digital Entertainment Executive in Australia-based Animal Logic, has joined the jury of INDEX: Design to Improve Life. Along with the rest of the jury, he has selected the nominated designs for the world’s biggest design award, the INDEX: AWARD, presented on August 24th 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hael Kobayashi is an international and award winning professional with over 30 years experience in film, digital media, broadcast, and the visual and performing arts. As a pioneer in the field of digital media, Kobayashi has served as a senior executive and producer for some of the world's leading film and entertainment studios. Most recently, he was Group Head of Production and Associate Producer on the digitally animated feature film “Happy Feet” for Australia's Animal Logic. Kobayashi previously worked on award winning feature films such as Terminator II: Judgment Day and Godfather III at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch and also held the position of Director of Digital Artists Production for Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic. In addition, he served in several production management roles at PDI/DreamWorks on movies such as Antz and The Road to Eldorado, and was the Entertainment and Science Bureau Chief for MSNBC/ZDTV, which pioneered the use of online communication in conjunction with simultaneous broadcast.
Within the digital games industry, Kobayashi served as a producer for Raya Systems, overseeing content development, art direction, and image development. The games were designed to teach young people health awareness and prevention, and were endorsed by the American Pediatrics Association and AMFAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
An active industry advocate and champion for digital media development, training and education, Kobayashi is the co-founder of the Presidential Scholars in the Arts' film and video program in the USA. He has lectured extensively on the disciplines of digital visual effects and animation in Canada, USA, Australia and United Kingdom. Kobayashi has served as a team member for creating strategies to develop digital media as part of sustainable, economic growth for several regions in the world, including the USA and Singapore. Most recently, he served on the federal and state task forces for Australia's Digital Content Industry Action Agenda, covering the fields of architecture, design, entertainment and science.
Ravi Naidoo, founder and managing director of the Cape Town based media and marketing company Interactive Africa, has joined the jury of INDEX: Design to Improve Life. Along with the rest of the jury, he has selected the nominated designs for the world’s biggest design award, the INDEX: AWARD, presented on August 24th 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ravi completed his MBA degree at University of Cape Town in 1994, where he was nominated as the Nedbank MBA Student of the Year. Ravi also has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physiology from UCT. Besides the three years as an Account Director at Young and Rubicam (90-93), where Ravi managed a few multinational accounts, his main business focus has always been on media, marketing and project management.
In 1994, Ravi founded Interactive Africa. One of the company's more recent projects has been project managing the First African in Space Mission and marketing of South Africa's bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup, as well as for the 2006 campaign. He also directed the African Connection Rally – the trip from the northern to the southern tip of Africa in April 1999, which promoted telecommunications investment in Africa.
Ravi is the co-founder of CITI, the Cape IT Initiative, a non-profit company is dedicated to promoting the IT cluster in the Western Cape. He also founded the International Design Indaba, a leading design institution, that's best known for its flagship conference and expo held in Cape Town annually. He also consulted to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games company, and assisted in their successful campaign.
Apart from his affiliation with Interactive Africa, which successfully managed the marketing of South Africa's Bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup, Naidoo has launched several initiatives to spur it and telecommunications investments in Africa. In addition, Naidoo has founded Design Indaba, known for its annual expo and conference in Cape Town.
Facts about INDEX: Design to Improve Life:
INDEX: is a network organization, which aims to spur public and professional awareness of the human and commercial potential in Design to Improve Life. INDEX: pursues this goal by awarding the biggest design award in the world, presenting international design exhibitions, hosting summits for world leaders on design and innovation, and by publishing and distributing knowledge about Design to Improve Life.
• INDEX: was founded on August 15, 2002.
• Patron of INDEX: 2007 is HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark.
• INDEX: is a global non-profit network organization drawing attention to design that substantially improves people's lives.
• Every other year, INDEX: awards the world's largest design prize, INDEX: AWARD. The next INDEX: AWARD will be conferred on August 24, 2007, at a ceremony at Copenhagen City Hall.
• More than 170,000 people visited the INDEX: AWARD EXHIBITIONS in 2005, which were set up in five Copenhagen city squares.
• INDEX: works through an international network to ensure the best possible access to new knowledge on design.
• INDEX: is headed up by CEO Kigge Hvid.
• INDEX: is headquartered at Danmarks Designskole in Copenhagen.
• Read more about INDEX: at www.indexaward.dk.
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